Quill & Quire asked Canada’s book community what their favourite books were in 2024 – and Rohan Maitzen, academic and reviewer in Halifax, said:
“A book from 2024 that I know will stay with me is Shawna Lemay’s Apples on a Windowsill. Meditative without being precious, reflective and yet still occasionally, refreshingly, acerbic, Lemay’s essays invite us to recognize the beauty in the everyday, to find everything – not just flowers or vistas but even our own “wrinkled selves” – worth looking at. As she says, “we exist right now at this exact moment and one day we won’t.” Surely we should make as much of that moment as we can.”
AMAZING! Thank you! And congratulations, Shawna!
