Book Me

Season 8, Episode 5. Readers don't just like to read books; they like to read about books: the latest from favourite authors, profiles of up-and-comers, essays, reviews, and new ti...

Season 8, Episode 4 Marilla Cuthbert isn't the most likable character in the "Anne of Green Gables" books. Readers may have wondered what made her such a cold and disapproving pers...

Season 8, Episode 3. The forest is where things burrow and slither and nest, where lichens with little red hats stand on mossy logs, and perfume-sweet wildflowers grow beside neigh...

Season 8, Episode 2 Emma Weaver has personal motives for choosing her M.A. thesis topic. She divides her time between poring over mute archival records and trying to find members o...

Season 8, Episode 1. A phantom crew rows eternally through the Atlantic fog. A light moves from room to room in an abandoned house. A dark presence pins you to your bed at night. C...

Season 7, Episode 9 Socrates was famously quoted as saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living".  Lesley Choyce believes that regular examination of his life is worth wr...

"It's Our Time" is a book that grew out of a public slur against African Nova Scotians who live in a cluster of communities known as The Preston Township. That insult made Rev. Dr....

They say you should never meet your heroes because they'll disappoint you (or leave you tongue-tied).  Heather Stemp learned that her Aunt Ginny actually met the world-famous ...

Season 7, Episode 6 "Headfirst is the most delicious way to go down a tree".  That's typical of the intriguing clues in "So Imagine Me: Nature Riddles in Poetry" by Lynn Davie...

Nearly every coastal nation has folkloric beings who are part human, part sea creature. In "The Mermaid Handbook", Taylor Widrig brings us profiles of mermaids and other mer-people...

Season 7, Episode 4 In our hyper-connected world, what could be more exotic than a hermit - a person deliberately disengaged from people and technology? When Danny and his friend B...

Season 7, Episode 3 Eli Cooper has worked himself into a deep, middle-aged rut. A night editor at a newspaper, he has no life partner, and lives in the family home with his father,...