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A Canadian curated reading company helping people discover books that broaden perspectives and create meaningful conversations.

This sounds like such a fascinating read. Have you heard of it? Read it? The Hill by Harriet Clark FictionAlmost every S...
08/25/2026

This sounds like such a fascinating read. Have you heard of it? Read it?

The Hill by Harriet Clark
Fiction

Almost every Saturday, Suzanna, the girl who narrates this novel, makes a pilgrimage to visit her mother in a hilltop prison. Once a radical implicated in a deadly bank robbery, her mother is serving a life sentence, and these weekly visits are the fragile thread holding them together. Even as she urges Suzanna to break free and live her own life, and Suzanna’s eccentric, unforgiving grandmother won’t go near the prison, the girl keeps returning, bound by something deeper than duty. This spare, lyrical début novel transcends its autobiographical origins (Clark’s own mother was a Weather Underground activist imprisoned for nearly four decades), stripping away particulars to reveal a resonant allegory about coming of age in the shadow of an institution that drains human development of meaning.

08/23/2026

The Legends of Weesakayjak by Kathleen Robinson Fingarsen, a First Nations legend elder, author, and master beadwork artist from Manitoba, Canada.

Comment “legends” below if you’d like a copy or send me a dm.

Otherwise, let me know in the comments if you’ve heard of or read this book or any other in the series. Frida Charriere

Hello London! On Friday, August 28, 2026, I’ll be at Storybook Gardens from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Can’t wait to see you there! ...
08/19/2026

Hello London!

On Friday, August 28, 2026, I’ll be at Storybook Gardens from 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Can’t wait to see you there!

Slide 1: Reading outside your usual box. Kinda chic.Slide 2: Reading a book by an author you’ve never heard of. Kinda ch...
08/17/2026

Slide 1: Reading outside your usual box. Kinda chic.

Slide 2: Reading a book by an author you’ve never heard of. Kinda chic.

Yes, I see you and your 47-book J.D. Robb reading streak. 😂

Slide 3: Reading beyond your own culture. Very kinda chic. 🌎

African stories. Asian perspectives. Indigenous voices. Q***r stories. Stories from the diaspora. Stories that take you somewhere you’ve never been.
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Slide 4: Choosing a book because you want to understand something better. Kinda chic.

Black history. Disability. Migration. Identity. Race. Gender. Belonging. Mental health. Social justice.

Slide 5: Buying from an independent bookstore. Extremely kinda chic. 🫶🏾

Because when you shop independent, you’re supporting people who care deeply about books, readers and the stories that make it onto the shelf.

“An enemy is one whose story we have not heard.”This quote from peace activist Gene Knudsen Hoffman captures something a...
08/16/2026

“An enemy is one whose story we have not heard.”

This quote from peace activist Gene Knudsen Hoffman captures something at the heart of intentional reading: stories can help us see the humanity in people whose experiences may be very different from our own.

A story can’t solve every division between us, but it can be a place to begin. Sometimes, understanding starts with being willing to hear someone’s story.

What book has changed the way you see something?

08/14/2026

As you likely know, I curate book bundles on different themes throughout the year. This is one on disability (Seeking to Understand Disability: Book Bundle).

Obviously disability isn’t one single experience, and there isn’t a single book that can teach us everything there is to know. This book bundle is only an invitation to begin somewhere and to keep learning.

Through memoir and personal essays, these book bundle invites us to question what we think we know about disability, listen to disabled voices, and consider how our understanding of accessibility, difference, and belonging, might change.

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08/14/2026

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08/10/2026

Hello London!
You likely don’t know me, yet.

I‘m Valerie Chelangat, owner of Tusome Books, an online Canadian bookstore, founded in Winnipeg, MB.

I love to compile book bundles on different themes like Black History Month reads, International Women’s Day bundle, holiday book bundles and more!

All the book bundles include a selection of bookish merchandise from various Canadian entrepreneurs.

This Friday, August 14, I’ll be at Covent Garden from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Come check out Tusome Books and some of our book bundles.

Covent Garden Market

“We know this is a lie, right? We all come from culture. We’re all surrounded by culture all the time. If yours is the d...
03/04/2026

“We know this is a lie, right? We all come from culture. We’re all surrounded by culture all the time. If yours is the dominant culture then that is all you see, but it is still culture. If you don’t see it, then you have to question your vantage point.”
Quote from Real Ones by Katherena Vermette.

Have you read Real Ones, yet?

Quotes from our February book club book, Born to Walk by . “Language is a security blanket. It is connection, it is com...
02/12/2026

Quotes from our February book club book, Born to Walk by .

“Language is a security blanket. It is connection, it is common understanding, it is being welcomed…”

“I recalled my grandmother’s story about a farmer who found a bunch of grasshoppers. He put them in a container, but they all struggled to get out, so he put a lid on the container. They immediately began fighting and eating one another. “You are fighting and eating each other when you know that I am going to crush you all in my mouth,” the farmer said.”

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