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June 5, 2010 by Nathalie Foy

Roughing it in the Books has a post about the 100 best Canadian books.

What are your favourite Canadian book blogs?

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on June 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM | Reply Study Window

I will be very interested to see what responses you get from bloggers who are better read than I am. I shall want to visit them. Thanks too for the link to the Canadian Books site. It will surely provide suggestions for many happy hours of reading.
on June 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM | Reply Carrie

I love Pickle Me This. Love love love it! And I love My Tragic Right Hip. And the National Post’s book blog is pretty awesome too (Afterword).
on June 5, 2010 at 9:43 PM | Reply Kerry

Thanks, Carrie! I like your blog too. And I also love http://crookedhouse.typepad.com/
http://charlotteashley.wordpress.com/
http://freerangereading.blogspot.com/
http://indextrious.blogspot.com/
http://theliterarytype.ca/
andmanymanymore!
on June 5, 2010 at 11:00 PM | Reply Charlotte

Ooh, tough question! They come in so many different shades.

Bookninja and the Quillblog are my go-to sites for Canadian book industry news.

The Afterword is fabulous for news, reviews AND “content” – interviews, contests, serialized fiction and the like.

That Shakespearean Rag (http://www.stevenwbeattie.com/) and Pickle Me This (http://www.picklemethis.com/) are wonderful for reviews of course, but also do a good amount of really excellent editorializing (which is lacking in more dedicated “news” sites).

Then I follow a great huge pile of personal/review CanLit blogs. It’s tough to call out favourites! After a while it’s hard to separate the blog from the blogger, and it’s hard to state objectively if I enjoy it because a given post has a wide appeal or because it’s like catching up with a friend. But I read at least a half dozen of them *religiously*.

I also feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s out there. Every day I’m discovering new, incredibly maintained and professional Canadian book blogs. Like Salty Ink (http://saltyink.com/)! How did I not know that site was there before three weeks ago? If I were a Maritimer, that would be my favourite blog *ever*.
- on June 7, 2010 at 11:11 PM | Reply chadpelley
  
  Charlotte: Very much appreciate the plug for Salty Ink!
  
  Nathalie: Best Canadian Book blogs: great post.
on June 6, 2010 at 10:16 AM | Reply Eva

Off to check out the link! I’m bad at knowing which bloggers are Canadian, but I love Raych from Books I Done Read, and I know she’s Canadian.
on June 7, 2010 at 4:20 PM | Reply m

Some of my favourites (some of which have already been named):
http://carrieannesnyder.blogspot.com/
http://www.picklemethis.com/
http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/
http://www.bookninja.com/
http://123oleary.blogspot.com/
http://janedayreader.blogspot.com/
- on June 14, 2010 at 2:55 PM | Reply Nathalie Foy
  
  Sorry for the delay in posting this. It was sent to spam.
on June 7, 2010 at 5:10 PM | Reply Nathalie Foy

Thank you all for these. Charlotte, it’s great to hear that you are discovering well-established but new-to-you blogs.
on June 8, 2010 at 10:24 PM | Reply Nathalie Foy

A follow-up. Zach Wells has a great blogroll with lots of Canadian content.

http://zachariahwells.blogspot.com/

This month’s Quill and Quire has a profile of 5 prolific bloggers.

Kerry, Charlotte and Carrie, who have commented above, have blogrolls that I have made frequent use of. There is so much out there, it’s hard to know where to begin, but the joy of discovering a great blog is worth the occasional sensation of feeling overwhelmed.
on June 19, 2011 at 1:21 PM | Reply Vivi Valenz

Hey! I’m super late posting this lol but I’m a new Canadian book blogger for anyone who wants to check me out.
http://www.teenbookaholic.com, or follow @teenbookaholic on twitter!

Be there or be square. <3
on April 6, 2012 at 9:17 PM | Reply Jessica

Hello,
I recently put together a book blog/site for girls. Not so much a review of the books, but a way for the girls to start communicating about what is happening in the books we are reading. Check it out and read along if you get a chance.
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