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The Bridge , by Bill Konigsberg, is the best YA novel I've read since Eleanor & Park in 2012. Unfortunately, I know that many reade...

Ever since reading, in 2006, The National Dream and The Golden Spike , Pierre Berton's books about the building of the Canadian railroa...

This post has been half-written and sitting in drafts for many months. Days after an armed mob tried to violently subvert the results of an ...

2018: Titles and reading projects that were languishing on my List . 2019: The year of the biography . The first time I created a reading pl...

I have read many essays and op-eds by Farley Mowat , the legendary Canadian naturalist, but until now, had never read any of his many books....

Tl; dr: Greetings Island is the best e-greeting-card site.  * * * * I love greeting cards -- birthdays, anniversaries, thank yous, "gl...

I've always loved working at home.  I loved it when I first started writing fiction and working as a freelance proofreader in 1985, and ...

Librarians like to ask readers about their reading habits. How do you read? What format do you most prefer? Do you have a secondary format? ...

Wishing you all a happy, healthy 2021. Peace, love, and vaccinations! Click here to open the card . PS: This is my new favourite e-card site...

I recently completed three booklists for library customers, part of a system-wide readers' advisory project. The lists use good gender b...

Like many writers, especially those of us who grew up before the digital age, I keep a notebook. I use it to capture ideas, capture thoughts...

Here we are in the middle of a global pandemic, and I feel (to paraphrase my favourite baseball player ) like the luckiest person on the fac...

An Antidote to COVID Boredom: Virtual Book Clubs As winter settles in on the North Island, and we continue social distancing to lessen the ...

Homeschooling? Your Library Can Help One of the many ways COVID has changed our lives is an increased interest in homeschooling. Of course ...

New E-Resources – and New Hours at the Port Hardy Library The Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) has added some terrific new e-resour...

 Catching up on my "At Your Library" column in one of our free local newspapers. September Is Literacy Month When you hear the wor...

Taming the Tiger , 1998 Taming the Tiger is markedly different than Joni's previous album, Turbulent Indigo . Where Turbulent Indigo i...

Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse is exactly what the subtitle says: a history a...