This May, please join us in celebrating Asian Heritage Month: a recognition of the humanity, power, and ongoing struggles of Asian communities throughout the world.
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Ten Books to Fall in Love with This Valentine’s Day
What is love? We have yet to agree on a global definition.
Continue readingNational Poetry Month Celebration: Leanne Dunic
Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with a few selections from To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and Japan, Leanne Dunic’s 2017 debut captures what it’s like to be united while simultaneously separated from the global experience of trauma, history, and loss that colour our […]
Continue readingFeature Friday: To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic
For this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we’re pleased to bring you an excerpt from To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic. In this evocative debut book of prose poetry, a disillusioned narrator obsessed with natural disasters and ‘the curse of 11’ reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. […]
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 plan to curl up with a book at the cottage, in the city, or en route to a destination, BookThug has you covered. Here are […]
Continue readingShare the Love: Spotlight on Authors for Indies Day 2017
April 25th, 2017 By Shayanna Seymour, Special to the BookThug Blog It’s that time of year again! The time to support, and show your love for, Canadian independently-owned bookstores on none other than Author for Indies Day (AFI). This year marks the 3rd annual AFI which will take place all across the country at 87 […]
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