August 2020

  • Indigenous Sci-Fi Writers

    Indigenous Sci-Fi Writers

    ‘We’ve Already Survived an Apocalypse’: Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi. Long underrepresented in genre fiction, Native…

  • Ordinary Grace

    Ordinary Grace

    I  loved Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger on so many levels! Told from the perspective…

  • Knit One, Read Two

    Knit One, Read Two

    It has been discovered that reading and listening to books develop the exact same areas of…

  • Hurry Home

    Hurry Home

    Hurry Home was my first book by Canadian author Roz Nay … and it won’t be…

  • Royal Tell-Alls

    Royal Tell-Alls

    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may not have written the upcoming biography Finding Freedom, but the…

  • Writer Biopics

    Writer Biopics

    Storytellers are endlessly fascinating, which might explain why biopics about authors are always so popular. The…

  • Rust

    Rust

    We had just started making ‘book bundles’ here at WPL when I began reading Eliese Colette…

  • Big Library Read

    Big Library Read

    There is still time to be a part of the Big Library Read from Overdrive. BLR…

  • The Pull of the Stars

    The Pull of the Stars

    Emma Donoghue’s timing for the release of this novel about life over the course of 3…

  • The Scandalous Queen

    The Scandalous Queen

    It’s said that well behaved women rarely make history and that is certainly true when it…