Today we’re pleased to share the latest edition of Book*hugs Recommend, featuring a round-up of our staff’s favourite summer reads. These are the books that we have been reading and enjoying this summer. Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà Either/Or by Elif Batuman Pure Colour by Shelia […]
Continue readingBook*hug’s crack team of publishing professionals share their summer reading recommendations. ❧ Jay MillAr Co-publisher My Body Is Yours by Michael V. Smith (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015) From Arsenal Pulp Press: Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, […]
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Summer reading is a distinctly marked species in the great genus Reading: a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work. Surly study has its dignities and claims: stiff-backed, hard-seated study, that makes no luxury of books, but quarries them, and digs or blasts material for solid uses. But there must also be […]
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