I always recommend that you check out our Junction Reads past schedule, because this is where you’ll find all the books that I’ve read most recently. I do squeeze extras in here and there, but you’ll find reviews and analyses of all the fab books and authors who come to the series.
Alison's Bookshelf
We Were the Bullfighters spans two months over a hundred years ago. Set in Toronto when Ernest Hemingway worked for The Star, he is depressed by the lack of movement in his writing career and lulled into a lazy life with his wife. Strugg…
When Felicity Alexander’s mother tells her that she should stay away from boys because “If you have a baby, your life is ruined” Felicity wonders if she ruined her mother’s life? Her own answer becomes a truth that lingers. Felicity is u…
There was a moment while reading VOICES IN THE AIR, Kasia Jaronczyk’s debut novel (and second book), where I thought about all the true stories that might never be told without imaginative and brilliant writers inspired to tell them.
The…
A collection of essays written with confident self-awareness and an intimacy that made me feel lucky to have been invited into her world.
At the age of 23 – when a blurry-eyed hangover turns out to be optic neuritis – Ardra Shephard’s l…
DISOBEDIENCE is a revelatory book, both for its speculative strange brilliance and its sensuality and beauty. Following Shael through this complex future world, where oppression and violence abound, we hope they might find a space free o…
A writer. 