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Zooming In: Clued in or clueless? - how much do readers want to know about a book before diving in?

Friday Reads: A tome toppled, a couple new books well met

Zooming In: What we talk about when we talk about books - Bernie and Shawn on bookish discourse

Friday Reads: I feel ‘back’

Suzanne Scanlon’s memoir Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen was a transformative read: here’s why

Novelist Barb Howard and Shawn launch their 2nd annual novella reading project: please join us!

Friday Reads: In praise of voracious nosiness

Bite-sized Book Chats: The 73rd Episode

Friday Reads: Friends and Family

Chris, Dorian, James and Shawn chat about Edith Wharton’s 1917 novel Summer

Shawn of Shawn Breathes Books reviews Wild Houses by Colin Barrett

Friday Reads: An immersive reading week, albeit disrupted

A chat with Western Canadian writer David Carpenter on his essay collection, Writing Home

Friday Reads: A name change amidst a supremely bookish week without a whole lot of reading

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Five readers on the legacy of Alice Munro

An interview with Thomas Grattan about his splendid new queer novel, In Tongues

Friday Reads: ‘Nothing else but a five-star read’

Zooming In: Anna Baillie-Karas and Shawn on readers influencing writers

Another Saskatoon library-book veelog

Zooming In: Brian of Bookish and Shawn the Book Maniac give reading challenges a workout

Friday Reads: Some serial, weird, and tragicomic reads

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls: a graphic memoir of Chinese & Asian-American identity and trauma

Zooming In: The reader, pencil in hand - Sisilia and Shawn on writing in books

Friday Reads: Books that jump off the shelf, and one that got tossed to the ground

A chat with British novelist Douglas Bruton about his writing and some recent reading

Zooming In: Nyambura and Shawn on how much—or even if—they prefer paperbacks

An atmospheric Friday Reads—including a stunning work of autofiction and a bit of a rant

Zooming In: Hannah and Shawn on Women Writers Who Destroyed Their Own Work

Sharon Butala and Shawn the Book Maniac talk books

Friday Reads: ‘Fragility, sound and silence’

A Reckoning: Shawn the Book Maniac downsizes his current reads

Zooming In: Clutter Schmutter: A chat with James on the joys and perils of an overstuffed library

Friday Reads: Reading that makes my head hurt in a good way - and other adventures

A chat with Nigerian-Canadian writer Michael Afenfia about his novel, Leave My Bones In Saskatoon

Zooming In: Kendra on Alice Wong’s disability activism & being better allies on bookish social media

Shawn the Book Maniac on 12 intriguing Canadian works of fiction coming out in the spring of 2024

Friday Reads: Another week in the wonderfully ridiculous reading life of Shawn the Book Maniac

Wee In Other Words

Zooming In: We like it like that - Bernie, Hunter & Shawn on gay male desire in literature

Friday Reads: A bit of a hodgepodge

Zooming In: Is Don DeLillo worth reading? Sonya pulls Shawn the Book Maniac into the underworld

Friday Reads: Gratitude and rest—with a book or two squeezed in around the edges

Kate, Yuki, and Shawn discuss Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai on The Book Club Review podcast

Ericka and Shawn discuss William Corlett’s masterful 1995 gay boarding school novel, Now and Then

A fine man, a wonderful father

Friday Reads: Dipping into books

Zooming In: These are our brains on books: Trevor & Shawn on the art and science of reading

Friday Reads: Bandwidths and jagged, perfect words

Zooming In: Who’s the bigger bibliomaniac? - Jolene of Bookworm Adventure Girl & Shawn duke it out