Sundays have always carried a quiet grace for me — a day that asks nothing more than our presence. My father was a minister, and in our home, Sundays were set aside for rest, reflection, and reading. They were days for gathering in song and conversation, for remembering that even in the simplest moments, thereContinue reading "Sunday Morning Reflection: Why Sundays are Special"| Rebecca's Reading Room
Some poems arrive like a sudden tide — they rise in your heart before you even understand why. The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, written by Li Bai in the 8th century and translated by Ezra Pound in 1915, came to me that way. When I read it for the first time, something inside me stilled.Continue reading "The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter By Li Bai (Li Po), translated by Ezra Pound (1915)"| Rebecca's Reading Room
Speak Flowers and Fans – a Dictionary of Floriography and Fanology by Teagan Riordain Geneviene Every once in a while, a book arrives that feels less like reading and more like being invited into a conversation with imagination itself. Teagan Riordain Geneviene’s Speak Flowers and Fans: A Dictionary of Floriography and Fanology is just thatContinue reading "Speak Flowers and Fans by Teagan Riordain Geneviene"| Rebecca's Reading Room
This morning, I invite you to linger with a poet who might be unfamiliar: Elizabeth Madox Roberts, born in 1881 in rural Kentucky. Though she became widely known for her modernist novels, she also wrote poetry that carried the cadence of the fields, the garden rows, and the voices of children at play. She livedContinue reading "Meeting up with Elizabeth Madox Roberts"| Rebecca's Reading Room
The month of September carried with it a sense of nostalgia, a reminder of harvest and gathering. Our conversations gathered words, ideas, and memories into a rich tapestry. What strikes me most is that whether we were speaking of books, trees, history, or blogging, the underlying thread was the same: the search for meaning, connection,Continue reading "Gathering September, Welcoming October"| Rebecca's Reading Room
John Russell McCarthy’s poem took me back years to the boreal forests of Northern Manitoba, where I grew up. I vividly recall walking among the poplars in early September. This brief, lyrical poem …| Rebecca's Reading Room
Mark Perryman selects his reading matter to make sense of a party in trouble The 4th July 2024 landslide seems […] The post Ten Reads to Understand Labour Conference appeared first on Compass.| Compass
Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this 2025 Pride Month feature later than planned. What does it mean to inhabit a body that others may not understand? We’re revisiting an excerpt of Addie Tsai’s Unwieldy Creatures first published in Room 44.1 Growing Room. Excerpt from Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai All I ever knew was […]| ROOM Magazine
I recently came across an article about book lists, The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List, by Emily Temple and noticed that one title appears again and again: The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy. Curious, I placed a hold on it through the Vancouver Public Library. It will be eight weeks before I can read it, whichContinue reading "Poignancy in Books: Sadness or Joy?"| Rebecca's Reading Room
The Turning Tide of Connection – A Reflection on the article “Social Media Trends 2025” (Hootsuite) Rebecca’s Reading Room continues in the tradition of the Victorian and Edwardian reading rooms—places where neighbours gathered not only to read books and periodicals, but to exchange ideas, wrestle with change, and imagine new futures. Beginning this season, theContinue reading "The Turning Tide of Connection"| Rebecca's Reading Room
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”Pascal Mercier, Nig…| Rebecca's Reading Room
Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this Indigenous History Month feature later than planned. However, Room holds that Indigenous histories, presents, and futures are to be honored year-round, and post this feature now to assert that. What is a country? What do we understand of the story we tell ourselves, the […]| ROOM Magazine
There are some books that linger quietly in the back of your mind long after you’ve read the final page—books that feel like a warm cup of tea on a rainy afternoon. The Last Garden in England by Ju…| Rebecca's Reading Room
There are voices in history that never quite fade—only soften, like a song carried by the wind across centuries. Sappho is one of those voices. I recently came across a poem attributed to her, thou…| Rebecca's Reading Room
Some books don’t just tell a story—they invite you into a riddle, a ritual, a hidden map. The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson is one such book. It caught my imagination instan…| Rebecca's Reading Room
Change is often met with resistance.And for good reason. It unsettles our routines, disturbs the familiar, and opens the door to the unknown. It asks us to relinquish control and step into a space …| Rebecca's Reading Room
What does it mean to labour, and what is our relationship to our labour? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we’re revisiting Kirti Bhadresa’s “Tuesday Girl,” first published in Room 45.4 Baby, Baby, Baby!. Tuesday Girl by Kirti Bhadresa She calls me by the day of the week as if surprised to see me: […] The post “Tuesday Girl” by Kirti Bhadresa (from ROOM 45.4 Baby, Baby, Baby!) appeared first on ROOM Magazine.| ROOM Magazine
What stories are we told about history, what do we hold as truth, and how do they live in the body? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we’re revisiting Stephanie R. Lim’s “We Have Carried Our Longing,” first published in Room 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices. We Have Carried Our Longing by […]| ROOM Magazine
What does it mean to survive the many ongoing crises of our times? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we’re revisiting Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “Parliaments on the Stoop,” first published in ROOM 41.3 Queer. Parliaments on the Stoop by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for Fatima, after Orlando There’s nothing like being two kinds […] The post “Parliaments on the Stoop” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (from ROOM 41.3 Queer) appeared first on ROOM Mag...| ROOM Magazine
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