Books

It’s finally here! Janine Vangool, the powerhouse behind Uppercase Magazine, has released her book The Typewriter: A Graphic History of the Beloved Machine. It’s a beauty – gorgeously designed and hefty, making it a book you will never want to take off your coffee table. Here’s a look through at some of my favourite pages….

Bream Gives Me Hiccups, by Jesse Eisenberg, via Doubleday Canada, out now. [I received this book from Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] For some reason, it seems actor/writer Jesse Eisenberg’s first book of short stories has flown under the radar. It would…

Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling, via Crown Archetype, out now. [I received this book from Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] Mindy Kaling has joined some sort of other-worldly ranks by writing a second memoir before she’s even, well, old, but it…

Can you smell it? The scent of new books. Unread adventures. Friends you haven’t met yet, hours of magical escapism awaiting you. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald, translated from Swedish to English by Alice Menzies, via Bond Street Books/Doubleday Canada, out now. [I received this book from Penguin Random House Canada in exchange…

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, via Doubleday Canada, out now. [I received this book from Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] Everything, Everything is the kind of book that affirms my love of YA. Here’s why: I instantly fell in love with the…

In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume. Doubleday Canada, out now. [I received this book from Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] I’m going to admit something: I don’t know much about Judy Blume. *flinches* I know I read her books as a kid,…

The Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner, Frog Books of North Atlantic Books, first published in 2002. [I received this book from Mongrel Media and North Atlantic Books in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] First came the book, and now there’s a movie. But I…