Jamie Canaves

Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer — in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can always talk books with her on Bluesky, Litsy, Goodreads, and her substack Multitudes Contained.

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE: 24 Foreign Covers

As a kid I was always intrigued by family members reading translated books: American classics in Spanish; Latin American works ...

Adorable Animals Reading Books

Remember Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toon Adventures? via GIPHY She was super annoying but I totally understood her. I mean ...

Rioters Reveal Their Reading Superpowers

It was recently pointed out to me that I walk the length of a long dock every day with my ...

Beyond Fine Art: Book Covers for Hair Color Inspiration

Thanks to a Laughing Squid post I became aware of the very talented and awesome Ursula Goff— a hair colorist ...

Cover Face-Off: KISSING TED CALLAHAN by Amy Spalding

I recently noticed that Kissing Ted Callahan (And Other Guys) by Amy Spalding, a book in my TBR list, was suddenly ...

Genre Kryptonite: Characters Who Love Books

I imagine it comes as a shock to no one that a bibliophile would get weak in the knees for ...

Loving But Never Reading Short Stories: Confronting the Issue

Recently I realized that for as much as I say that I like short stories and anthologies, I don’t seem ...

Bookish Hashtag: ’80sABook Edition

A beautiful thing happened on Twitter: people came together for the bookish hashtag #80sABook. Some of the tweets were SO ...

Book Adaptations: Streaming Amazon, HBO & Showtime Series

‘Tis the season that for some means finally catching up on all the shows on your TBW list (no more ...

140 Bookish Hallmark Ornaments

And just like that the holidays are upon us… Whether you bathe in eggnog and smile at every twinkly light ...