Bittersweet

Beach Read: Bittersweet

It’s the classic summer beachread of rags to riches, with a twist. Miranda Beverly-Whitemore’s haunting Bittersweet follows troubled Ivy League scholarship student Mabel Dagmar to her New England dorm room where she’s befriended by the school’s wild and very blue-blooded It Girl, Ev Winslow. It’s an unlikely friendship that leads to a summer at Ev’s …

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Summer Reading Made Easy

There’s a new kid in town giving style and sass to summer reading. Kobo’s new Aura H2O is a fully waterproof eReader taking the stress out of reading by the dock, on a lilypad, or by the Muskoka shoreline. MuskokaStyle tested one recently; here’s the verdict: Waterproof… really. Muskoka’s summer 2016 heat has meant we …

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Summer Reads | 5 All-Star Books

There are 5 new all-star books you can add to your summer reading list thanks to some rigorous debate by CBC’s Canada Reads. The 2016 literary competition placed Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal on the top of its list, followed by Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk, Michael Winter’s Minister Without Portfolio, Salem Nawaz’s Bone and Bread, and …

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Summer Reads | Book Preview: After You Die

With place names like Peterborough and Fenlon, we could mistake this tight summer read as a Canadian cottage-country tale. It’s not. Author Eva Dolan is an Essex-based writer whose crime fiction follows two detectives working the UK’s Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit. Still, what makes After You Die a prospect for an afternoon read on a …

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