Pickle Me This

For a while now, but especially since publishing my own Barbara Pym inspired comic novel, people have been telling me I should read Daniel M. Lavery’s fiction, which similarly captures the ordinary details of single women’s lives and casts ...

On the way to Quebec (via Ottawa) there were many stops along the way, though none of them were more important than Samantha Price’s Memorial Little Free Library in Carleton Place, the cutest LFL I’ve ever visited, and one that means a whole lot to me...

We were the luckiest people in the whole wide world when we ran away to rural Quebec for a week, returning to Toronto only just as the toxic smoke-filled skies were clean and blue again. I have never been more in need of a ...

Fortuitously, Stirling Book Company was celebrating its second birthday when we rolled into town the other weekend, a road trip bookshop stop that appeared on the map when Google sent us up Highway 33 on the way to the Ivanhoe Cheese Factory. It was a...

Speaking of prestige TV, last night I had the amazing likely once in a lifetime experience of watching an Apple TV series based on a book written by MY ACTUAL FRIEND, Marissa Stapley if you can believe it. I still can’t, sometimes, because she’s as ki...