A Year in the Books: Book*hugs Recommend, the Staff Edition

Today’s chapter of Book*hugs Recommend features Book*hug staff along with (some of!) our favourite reads of the year. These are books which stuck with us, made us feel, made us laugh, made us think; satisfied some of our curious, droll, earnest, comedic, speculative, scientific, wanderlusting, metaphysical, intertextual, melancholic, and optimistic—you name it—moods. Read on for […]

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Mother’s Day Recommended Reading List ????????????

Sunday is Mother’s Day. In honour of this special day, we’ve compiled our personal recommendations of books that will make perfect gifts for your book-loving mama, grandma, auntie, sister, cousin, friend, or you can treat yourself.  There’s no better gift than the perfect book. From must-read literary fiction to poetry, and creative nonfiction/memoir to literature […]

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Ferocious Fearlessness: In Conversation with Catherine Lalonde and Oana Avasilichioaei, author and translator of The Faerie Devouring

The Faerie Devouring is a modern-day fable and feminist bildungsroman by Quebecois author Catherine Lalonde and reimagined by the award-winning poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei. The Faerie Devouring tells the story of the sprite, her absent mother (who dies in childbirth), and a brood of fatherless boys all raised by Gramma, a stalwart matriarch and wicked faerie godmother. From […]

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