Reading Time: 3 minutesExpertly recounting the experiences of becoming a parent and the trials and tribulations of migrant, Liew highlights the similarities of the experiences.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s important to remember that, even if there is a cutting-edge Netflix series premiering in the near-future, books still have an important role to play in raising questions—and engaging minds.
Reading Time: 3 minutesConvenience Store Woman is a love story, but not in the orthodox sense—this is a love story not between Keiko and her eventual husband, but between herself and the store in which she has worked for 18 years.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this sobering and thought-provoking novel that is littered with accurate geographical, historical, and contemporary societal issues, the reader gets to be immersed in the cult-classic genres of supernatural, paranormal, and murder.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Get ready to experience the world through Joyce’s eyes in A Portrait.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDue to its inherently startling nature, dystopian fiction remains an effective way to captivate readers and warn them of the dire repercussions of their actions. However, in Sinclair Lewis’s book It Can’t Happen Here, it is the reader’s inaction that leads to a spiralling series of events.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDostoyevsky left no place for laughter in his novel. His message, among many, is clear: Actions have consequences. And some consequences can drag you into the unimaginable depths of hell.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Much of what is discussed in this book boils down to the complex relationship between those suffering from a mental illness and a society that can’t understand what they are going through.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe quintessential novel of the 1960s that most people have never heard of, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, is a seminal work of counterculture fiction, and required reading for anyone seriously interested in the Summer of Love.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’re looking for a fun, breezy way to brush up on your Shakespeare before exams roll around, don’t bother dusting off that old Coles Notes pamphlet that’s stashed under your bed. Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed has got you covered.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPacked with quirky characters, eccentric humour, and plenty of pop culture references, this 1990s cult novel reads like The Omen mixed with Monty Python.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thien’s novel beat out eleven other exceptional Canadian works on the longlist of submissions.
Reading Time: 3 minutesForget about watching saccharine holiday fluff like “Miracle on 34th Street” this holiday season. The Fulcrum recommends some worthwhile yuletide entertainment that have a bit more of an edge.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a total of four published works exploring the Shawbridge boys’ farm, or as it’s known to most who spend time there, The Farm. The fourth and most recent is the personal story of a young girl in the early ‘80s who became a ward of Quebec’s juvenile system and spent her teenage years chasing her freedom at nearly any cost.
