Chatelaine Book Club

Our next official Chatelaine Book Club pick is the thought-provoking Mr g: A Novel About the Creation, by physicist Alan Lightman! To get you started, here's the review.

I love making lists, but choosing my favourite books ever was one tough assignment. Tempted as I am to throw in a few “Complete Works of…” (Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe), I’ve settled on five novels that I’ve read and re-read and keep recommending to others.

Where most beginning writers screw up (you should pardon the expression) is in thinking that sex scenes are about sex. A good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids.

If Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure were a movie, we know just who we'd cast. Check out our picks and weigh in on our choices in the comments!

In the opening of Eowyn Ivey's debut novel, The Snow Child, an old couple who move to Alaska to escape heartbreak find their new home is a harsh and wild place, and they fear they may not survive its merciless ways. Little do they know that some magic, in the form of a small girl, awaits them.