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.
60 Bookish Films Streaming on Netflix
Jamie Canaves
August 4, 2015
Book to movie. Comic to movie. Remake of remake that was originally based on a book—you see where I’m going ...
Genre Kryptonite: Ladies Who’d Make a Sailor Blush
Jamie Canaves
July 29, 2015
There’s nothing like a perfectly dropped f*bomb from a ladies lips. I mean to this day one of my all ...
Cover Face-Off: HAUSFRAU by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Jamie Canaves
July 20, 2015
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum was one of the books that I read knowing nothing about it–back when I was ...
Watching Them Read: Fictional Characters and The Books They’re Reading
Jamie Canaves
July 19, 2015
I love spotting fictional characters reading books or trying to figure out what’s on their bookshelf in the back. It’s ...
How GONE GIRL Led to a Reading Experiment
Jamie Canaves
July 9, 2015
Gone Girl did a curious thing for me—no, I don’t cheer for sociopaths now, but it is the reason I’ve ...
OITNB Season 3 Book Round-up (Spoiler-Free)
Jamie Canaves
July 2, 2015
While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...
Why Readers of Escapist Thrillers Aren’t Marriage Material
Jamie Canaves
June 29, 2015
Have you heard how romance novels (usually referred to as “trashy” in this context) rot women’s brains, leave them expecting ...
OITNB Season 3 Book Round-up (Spoiler-Free)
Jamie Canaves
June 16, 2015
First things first, no spoilers here so no need to read slowly, one line at a time, with your mouse ...
(Re)Reading V.C. Andrews’ MY SWEET AUDRINA
Jamie Canaves
June 10, 2015
During one of the many Getting To Know You conversations between new Riot contributors, Leila Roy and Jamie Canaves discovered ...
Buy, Borrow, Bypass: 5 Female Leads in Thrillers and Mysteries
Jamie Canaves
May 20, 2015
This is a guest post from Jamie Canaves, creator of Dinky Cow, writer, and lover of everything ’80s–except Freddy Krueger. ...