May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. What better way to mark the occasion than to read books written by Asian Canadian writers. Here are 10 books recommended by the TMR editorial team!
Journalists hate the term fake news, but there’s a troubling reality: spin doctors routinely try to dupe them into reporting misleading and distorted stories.
With close to 50 years in the broadcast industry in Atlantic Canada, Rick Howe has been there, seen it and done it.
We’re excited to announce the first three installments of The Gamble, bestseller Bill Arnott’s e-book novella series (suspense, intrigue, action and humour) are now in a single volume, “The Gamble Novellas: Books 1-2-3.”
Escape between the pages of a book this season with our roundup of page-turning fiction and timely non-fiction coming out over the next few months in 2021.
CBC Books is counting down the top 10 bestselling Canadian titles of 2020, using data from close to 300 independent Canadian bookstores, courtesy of Bookmanager. Interestingly, the #9 and #8 books were reviewed right here at TMR, both by Ian Colford:
Read the rest of the CBC article here: http://bit.ly/38Rfu2N
April is National Poetry Month. This year’s theme, A World of Poetry. A world of poetry. This, I understand. Being witness to stomped-verse haka in Waitangi, the lyrical thrum of Outback didgeridoo, breathy sax in a wet London underpass, red slashed characters on a mud wall in Hebei, tanka blurred through joss smoke in Kyoto, rantings of a street poet in Times Square, the guttural slur of a Greenlandic hymn, and a master’s spoken-word reverberating on old timber, sibilant sea hissing through cracked glass
We wish to introduce Chris Banks as The Miramichi Reader’s new Poetry Editor, and his new column, The Abrupt Edge. It will be a regular feature here at TMR and will feature poetry, poetry news and whatever else Chris wants to tell you about.
Join Bill Arnott as we explore western Canada’s creative lit scene from the ground up, bedrock-solid yet perpetually in motion. Like our imminent coastal quake, my epicentre is BC’s southwest. For now.
I have added a new category: Beach Reads Summer Reads which contains titles from the past two years that, while suitable to be read anytime, anywhere are particularly suited for your vacation reading pleasure. While they are primarily fiction novels, but there are some lighter non-fiction works in there as well. I have included some …
We have a saying up here in the Miramichi: “the very best” (but you have to run all three words together to say it correctly). Typically, it comes in response to “how are you?” or “how’s the family?” and so on. I thought it would make a great award title for the best books that the …
Above are just some of the books I have reviewed in the past four months. As you can see, I love to read, and many authors and publishers have been kind enough to send me review copies and ARCs (advanced reading copies) for consideration. I thank them all for their support and for your (the East …
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