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The Scotiabank Giller Prize is one of Canada’s biggest literary awards. Started in 1994 and named for the late Doris Giller, the award is...

The first week of May I was thrilled to tune in to the FOLD (Festival of Literary Diversity) for the first time. The FOLD has been around...

Last week I was lucky enough to get a week all to myself and I flew to Edmonton, Alberta to see my best friend of almost twenty years. My...

Yesterday was Red Dress Day or the National Day for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman and Girls (and 2s+). Yesterday was also the day...

If you've browsed through "bookstagram" or "booktok" at all, you'll probably have noticed people outlining their TBR, or "to be read",...

Keeping up with the constant releases of absolutely delicious new reads can be a challenge especially when you want to read them all. I...

Content warnings: Suicidal ideation By one of Canada’s top authors—and one of my favourites—Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows is about...

I finished 2021 with a whooping 104 reads under my belt, but with all those reads, there was a lot of my bookshelf I didn't read. In an...

It’s that time of year again, the last minute scramble for any of holiday gifts you haven’t gotten yet. Well The.BookMom has some gifting...

Marthe grew up in Newfoundland and like many young people do, she moved to Montreal to pursue a different type of life. After terminating...

I love Canadian Literature. It is my favourite genre of fiction and I love love love following the Giller and Canada Reads every year. I...

It's that time of year again, I'm buying gifts for friends and family and getting ready for the holidays. I wanted to make this post...

I am a mom, I have 3 kids and they are all very busy little people. They talk to me almost constantly. Today they are between the ages of...

Imagine your life story, the whole being of who you are, being told to someone through the eyes and lives of ten people who were close to...