41:59
Friday Reads: Fiction vs The Real World (and other false dichotomies)
15:55
Zooming In: Reading heavy fiction in dark times - pointless or pointing towards hope?
42:55
A Friday Reads full of bangers
41:16
Another Saskatoon library-book veelog
45:39
Friday Reads: Liming with Books
28:58
Christy Jordan-Fenton and Shawn talk books
34:22
Friday Reads: Women on Men
59:54
Shawn interviews the legendary Western Canadian writers Sharon Butala and David Carpenter
38:45
Friday Reads: Three 5-star Reads
40:02
Friday Reads: So Far, So Good
39:27
Sunday Reads: Lots of exciting bookish things going on
56:21
Shawn Breathes Books presents the Besties & Worsties of 2024
17:43
Winter 2025 Releases I’m Excited About
32:32
Book Haul
28:51
Friday Reads: The end of the year—but no end of stories
35:22
Friday Reads: Some beautiful punches to the heart
54:30
Two queer novels, one epigraph: a conversation with novelists Rose Ruane and Christopher Diraddo
41:49
Friday Reads: Two characters – one loveable, the other, um, not so much
32:31
Zooming In: You say ‘bail,’ I say ‘DNF’ ... let’s call the whole book off! – a splendid colloquy
25:36
Friday Reads: Tilting towards astonishment
52:18
A hidden gem of a novel about an elderly Canadian woman in Tokyo: Ivy's Tree by Wendy Burton
37:43
A pretty darned queer Friday Reads - if I do say so myself
27:41
Robin and Shawn chat about Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
06:50
Scottish novelist Allan Radcliffe tells Shawn why he must finally read Elizabeth Strout
43:08
Friday Reads: My book of the year - and other lovely bookish topics
46:15
Novelist Barb Howard and Shawn report back on their 2nd annual novella reading project
37:37
Friday Reads: From news junkie to…Booker junkie?
21:48
Zooming In: The right time or anytime? - Stella & Shawn on moods and reading
31:02
Book Haul
36:50
Friday Reads: In search of respair
29:31
Melanie and Shawn on whether Held by Anne Michaels held together
42:11
Friday Reads: “It knocked my freaking socks off”
20:48
Zooming In: Good riddance or sweet sorrow? - Scott and Shawn on getting rid of books
56:26
Irish Novelists Cauvery Madhavan on The Inheritance and Rónán Hession on Ghost Mountain
41:46
Saturday Reads: Biblioadventures, bookish accessories, and a not-so-well-HELD-together novel
45:16
From high brow to low brow: Adam and Shawn talk books (the unexpurgated version)
32:53
Friday Reads: Light and darkness
40:01
Bite-sized Book Chats: The 74th Episode
16:13
Shawn’s reading project in homage to Mikiko 👸👸
12:36
Book Haul
41:51
Friday Reads: An embarrassment of superlatives
48:34
Lindy schools Shawn on the finalists of the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards
22:36
Zooming In: Literary fiction - dead or alive? – Ros & Shawn weigh in
59:25
Sharon and Shawn talk books
46:59
Friday Reads: An imperfect reading, a weird point-of-view, and an audiobook pet peeve
34:22
Shawn Breathes Books presents a surprise alfresco veelog for #ShortySeptember
13:16
Book Haul
46:26
The Friday Reads that took a few twists and turns
27:35
Alina and Shawn chat about The Colony by Audrey Magee
25:29
Zooming In: None of Your Damned Business - Dorian and Shawn on Nameless Protagonists & Narrators
47:40
Friday Reads: When books sparkle
16:59
Book Haul
38:01
Friday Reads: Bookish problems are happy problems
38:57
Lindy and Shawn chat with Douglas Bruton about his novel Blue Postcards
50:36
Friday Reads: A Bernini rabbit hole and a bunch of awesome spinsters
14:26
Book Haul
23:17
Zooming In: Mindy and Shawn on the audacity of literary opinion
38:39
Friday Reads: Let us now praise sticky novels
35:58
David Carpenter on the Francophone Alberta writer Georges Bugnet and his 1935 novel The Forest
43:24
Friday Reads: A genre-bending gift from Ernaux and an inviting look at Gallant
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A queer Canadian male reader, back home in Saskatoon after more than a decade in Tokyo.
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