The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss

At a KIRBC meeting over a year ago, my friend Emily brought in The History of Love. As is tradition, she read us a passage, and I knew instantly that I would love the book. As it turns out, Emily wasn’t the only one who loved it – History comes with SIX pages of praise [...]

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JK’s Love Letter to Love Letters

I was talking with my friend Jen a while ago, and she mentioned she had just bought a book of fictional love letters. Before the conversation was over, I’d looked it up on Amazon, and I ordered it soon afterward (sorry independent booksellers). Because let’s face it, I’m a sucker for love letters (even if [...]

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Happy V-day

Though this day often drives me crazy with its over-hyped consumerism and seemingly obligatory pairing, I am still a hopeless romantic at heart.  And since books were really my first love (and to this day, perhaps my greatest), a beautiful passage about love from one of my favourite novels (from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves):
“Why, look,” [...]

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