Profile: ‘The Curiosity Bookshop’ Personality Books you love are not fantasy, in its pure, genre manifestation – more like they incorporate just the right amount of magical realism. You love stories having to do with real issues that incorporate light doses of magic and / or incredulous situations. You are curious about a world in… Read More
For Your Consideration: All the Light We Cannot See (2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Anthony Doerr)
April 23, 2015
Anthony Doerr just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his historical novel All the Light We Cannot See. And for good reason. The book follows two perspectives: in one narrative, we meet Marie-Laure, a young, blind girl living in Paris with her beloved father who pushes her to define herself beyond her disability. When… Read More
BOOK DUMPLING’S ‘MOST RECOMMENDED: DEALING WITH ANXIETY’ READS
April 15, 2015
I get funny looks when people discover that, before heading to work in the morning, I drive forty-five minutes out of my way for my favourite coffee. Some find this idea stressful; I find driving one of the most relaxing mechanisms for alleviating anxiety. Going over Mount Royal while listening to an intelligent, thought-provoking podcast… Read More
Guest Blogger Emily Peotto on Being Unstuck OR A Brief Plug for Meg Wolitzer’s ‘The Interestings’
April 11, 2015
Most of the time, I feel stuck. Stuck with things never going according to plan, stuck with friends who don’t care, stuck with marks that just won’t get any better, stuck in the middle. As I’ve grown, though, I’ve realized one thing: things never go exactly as you think they will, and feeling stuck is… Read More
BOOK DUMPLING’S ‘MOST RECOMMENDED: TEEN BOYZ’ READS
April 5, 2015
One of the more frequent questions I get on the blog is: ‘how can I make my teenage boys read?’ Part of me wonders if our assumption that teenage boys don’t like reading, is part of the reason why some of them don’t? Many of the teenage girls I teach aren’t reading, either, yet people… Read More