Earlier this year, Penguin Random House Canada contacted the Toronto Etsy Street Team and to ask for help staging a little pop-up market. T...

Oh, poor neglected blog! I'm sorry I've been so busy. I spent much of August travelling through New England and the Maritime provinc...

I seem to have fallen out of the habit of regularly reviewing books on my blog. I used to be more disciplined about it, and there is a serie...

detail from a portrait of Madame de Pompadour by Francois Boucher. Source: marquise-de-colombe.tumblr.com I want to read more books this...

The Japanese Mask, 1884, Gustave Claude Etienne Courtois. French (1852–1923).  Source: myaloysius.tumblr.com   I have completely f...

I've been feeling under the weather for about a week, but I thought it was some low-grade virus I could shake off. Unfortunately, I als...

(image credit: Chris Silas Neal ) 12. The Sea - A Cultural History by John Mack This was an very interesting book, though somehow it di...

(image: 'In March read the books you've always meant to read' via brainpickings March 25, 1941, WPA Art Project Chicago) I t...

(image source ) The next two books I read had a theme of dysfunctional sibling relationships, where siblings compete for love with fatal res...

(image by Mladen Penev ) Goodness. From reading this blog, you would think that I have given up on the pastime of reading. I haven't po...

(image source , could easily be a representation of a certain character) You would be forgiven for assuming that I had given up reading,...