Celebrate Dad: 5 Books for Father’s Day
Father’s Day is here again. Time to celebrate and show our appreciation for fathers and father figures. In honour of all our dads, here’s a recommended reading list of five […]
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The Short List: 8 Recommended Short Story Collections
May is Short Story Month. We’re big readers of the short story form: Alice Munro, Anton Chekhov, Flannery O’Connor, George Saunders, Angela Carter and Jhumpa Lahiri are just a few […]
Continue readingCurl Up: 5 Long Weekend Reads
Have you been looking forward to the May long weekend to relax, take a trip, visit with friends, or read a good book? Possibly a bit of everything? Whether you […]
Continue readingThe Mother of All Lists: 5 Books for Mother’s Day
O god save all the many gendered-mothers of my heart, & all the other mothers, who do not need god or savior, our hearts persist in excess of the justice […]
Continue readingBook Notes: May 2017
Welcome to the May edition of Book Notes! This month, the staff at BookThug HQ share our current fave reads. Let us know if you’ve read any of these books […]
Continue readingApril Showers bring May Flowers…and Spring Reading Recommendations
Today is the first day of May, and, as we all know, April showers bring May flowers. The time has come again for us to marvel as the earth awakens […]
Continue readingWorld Health Day: Let’s Talk (and Read)
Every year, April 7th is known as World Health Day. It is a day of spreading global health awareness, started by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is important to […]
Continue readingBookThugs Read: Our Fave Books of 2016, the Authors’ Edition
Today, we continue to look back on our year in reading. For Part 2 of BookThugs Read, we’re turning things over to some of our wonderful authors to reflect on […]
Continue readingBookThugs Recommend: Holiday Reading
Looking for the perfect book for that bibliophile on your holiday shopping list? Perhaps you’re actually searching for your next great read? With the winter holidays upon us there’s no […]
Continue readingBookThugs Read: Our Fave Books of 2016, The Editors’ Edition
2016 has been a rough ride. In fact, for many of us it’s been downright awful. But we won’t revisit the reasons why (after all, we already know why….). In […]
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