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PQ Weekly Roundup: 12 Nov 2021
Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form. Continue reading
PQ Weekly Roundup: 13 Mar 2020
Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form. Novels about fictional epidemics are booming. Is anyone surprised? Is it the collective obsession of … Continue reading
PQ Weekly Roundup: 23 Nov 2018
Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form. I am 100% in favour of expanding vocabularies, but I’m a little hesitant to hop … Continue reading
Unwarranted Close Reading: 6 Words that Should No Longer Be Used in Book Blurbs
This week’s book news was dominated by the Giller Prize, and I must admit that even I tuned in to watch the coverage on CBC. Host Rick Mercer was amusing as always, but I found myself making faces at some … Continue reading
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