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Book Nook: Young adult queer book recommendations
July 1, 2025By: Rusham Verma, Peak Associate One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston If you’re a sci-fi fanatic and a hopeless romantic, this book was written just for you. It’s about a lonely and walled-off 23-year-old girl, August Landry, who moves to New York. There, she meets the bold and charismatic Jane Su. August’s love at first sight quickly changes into a race against time to get Jane back to her timeline. While the book is premised on a “love-at-first-sight” plot, it also dives deep into grief, loss, and the oppression of the queer community in the 1970s. Cemetery Boys by Aiden…
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Brother is an intimately woven story of grief
September 14, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Content warning: mentions of police brutality and racism. I read Brother in my first year at SFU, after taking ENGL 112W instructed by the author, David Chariandy. As soon as I found out…
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Fast-paced reads perfect for poolside reading
July 19, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer There’s nothing like opening up a good beach read and completely forgetting about real life for a couple hours. This selection features authors who capture the reader and transport them into each story. From a…
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The Book Nook: Five books to add to your summer reading list
May 16, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer [caption id="attachment_125240" align="alignnone" width="199"] PHOTO: Courtesy of Ecco[/caption] The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi Reading poetry in a shaded area with a cool drink in hand — what could…
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Q&A with Elvira Chan on her independently-published novel
March 16, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Elvira Chan is an SFU graduate student in the area of counselling and human development. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication with a minor in print and digital publishing. The following is…
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Predicting 2023 fiction trends
March 9, 2023By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer and Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Content warning: mentions of abusive relationships, racism, and xenophobia. Out: The romanticization of abusive love interests It’s fun to indulge in a steamy romance novel every once in…
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Contests and opportunities for writers
February 24, 2023By: Payal R., SFU Student CBC 2023 Literary Prize: Non-fiction Website: cbcliteraryprizes.submittable.com/submit Submissions close Feb 28, 2023 Fee: $25 The CBC 2023 Literary Prize’s non-fiction competition is open to all Canadian citizens and permanent residents to submit non-fiction works in…
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Dr. David Chariandy’s works show that both fiction and nonfiction are vital to understanding racism
October 6, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate On August 20, SFU’s own Dr. David Chariandy, an English professor, was featured in USA Today’s “100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.” The list is prefaced with the notion that, “Nonfiction books…
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Eric Lindstrom’s Not If I See You First features a relatable and rule-driven protagonist
July 30, 2018Written by: Louise Ho From the cover to its writing, the intriguing book Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom takes a spin on how we read and see people, both figuratively and literally. This contemporary young adult…
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Looking at John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars six years later
July 26, 2018Written by: Geron Malbas If you’re curious as to why I am reviewing John Green’s incredibly popular young adult book from 2012, The Fault in Our Stars (TFIOS), you can chalk that up to my curiosity on how well it…
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