We picked up this review in a Google alert. Increasingly these days book blogs and review websites are playing a bigger part in influencing readers to pick up a book and read it. When we started this website five years ago it felt a bit, well, naff to include any nods other than those from [...]
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Frumkiss is a Daily Reader Recommendation on the CBC
We are delighted to see that Frumkiss is being recommended by a complete stranger on the CBC’s Canada Reads section of their website. The CBC invites members of its virtual book club to provide reviews and recommendations for fellow visitors to the books section of their website. It’s one thing to find kind words on [...]
Frumkiss is #2 in Canadian Living’s 10 best holiday gift books guide
The Frumkiss Family Business has appeared in second place in Canadian Living’s guide to “The 10 best books for the CanLit fan on your list” for the holidays. Others in the guide include Sandra Birdsell’s Waiting for Joe, Ruth Rakoff’s When My World Was Very Small and Jane Urquart’s Sanctuary Line. This is wonderful news [...]
Michael Wex “a new Mordecai Richler”
A couple of weeks ago Wex appeared at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. While there he was interviewed by Bernie Bellan, editor of The Jewish Post and News, who was also kind enough to publish a rather lovely review of Wex’s new novel, The Frumkiss Family Business. (We will be running Mr. Bellan’s interview with [...]
“Frumkiss” is required reading according to Zoomer Magazine
The Frumkiss Family Business gets its first recommendation in the September edition of Zoomer Magazine, Canada’s boomer lifestyle magazine. We’re thrilled at this early support for the book from Moses Znaimer’s publication that describes zoomers as “baby boomers with zip” and is aimed at Canadians over 45 “who embrace life with experience and confidence and [...]