books ~ zines ~ mail ~ crafts
Book Review: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better by Monica Heisey (Red Deer Press, out now.) Whether or not you need a guide for getting on with the rest of your life, or figuring out what the heck you’re doing right now, you’ll enjoy Monica Heisey’s I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better. Monica, a Toronto writer/comedian, has…
Send someone a teeny letter! I’ve been seeing pocket letters all over Instagram and the blogosphere for months, but I haven’t tried making one until now. They hold a different kind of aesthetic to mail than I normally stick with, and I must say using baseball card sleeves wasn’t very appealing. But one of my…
Phoebe Gloeckner’s 2000 graphic novel (said in more ways than one) The Diary of a Teenage Girl — an intense and honest account of a girl in the 1970s who’s experiencing sex, drugs and depression after sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend — has now been made into a film staring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard. The book…
This guest post is the first in a series of stationery lovers’ favourite paper stores around the world. Want to contribute your favourite store? This post is by Jessica Rose of Not My Typewriter. What: Quills, a haven for letter writers, jewellery lovers, wedding planners, and crafters Where: 158 Locke Street South, Hamilton, Ontario When: Monday-Tuesday: By…
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. Crown, 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.] The Little Paris Bookshop is the story of Jean Perdu, who runs a book barge in the Seine called The Literary Apothecary, where…
I am so excited to finally host my first letter writing and stationery swapping event! Tonight we will gather around pretty paper and some sweets, writing hello notes to our pals. And since it’s at a post office, you can send the letter right then and there! 6-9 p.m. Toronto’s First Post Office, 260 Adelaide…
Not that I expect anyone to have noticed, but I haven’t been able to post as much lately due to being ridiculously occupied! From a vacation to a busy job to taking two courses that have homework to watching Orange is the New Black and Orphan Black (heh) to spending time with friends and family to getting food…