When Shelagh bumped into the actor Graham Greene at a Toronto airport recently, they started talking about reading (of course!) and Shelagh learned that Graham is an avid e-reader. We figure that scanning someone's e-reader is the 21st-century equivalent of sizing up someone's book collection at home: the books (or e-books) a person has collected can tell you a lot about what makes them tick.

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-- Shyam Selvadurai. 

In this episode:

* Shyam Selvadurai on The Hungry Ghosts
* Christina Martin on Still Alice by Lisa Genova
* Brian Francis says if you liked Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, you'll love I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow by Jonathan Goldstein
* Jane Urquhart answers the Proust Questionnaire
* Graham Greene tells us what he's e-reading

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-- Shannon Moroney. 

In this episode:

* Shannon Moroney on Through the Glass
* Charlie A'Court on the Calvin and Hobbes series by Bill Watterson
* Vish Khanna reviews Cadillac Couches by Sophie B. Watson
* George Szanto on Bog Tender

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-- Tanis Rideout. 

In this episode:

* Tanis Rideout on Above All Things
* Susanna Kearsley on The Firebird
* Victor Dwyer says if you liked Quiet by Susan Cain, you'll love We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy
* Saleema Nawaz on Bone and Bread

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Most people know George Mallory as a brave hero. He was an English mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest three times in the 1920s with little more than a Burberry jacket and a kind of absurd bravery. George Mallory didn't survive his third attempt to summit the mountain and what actually happened to him remained a mystery until his remarkably well-preserved body was found in 1999.

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-- Joseph Boyden. 

In this episode:

* Joseph Boyden and Richard Wagamese on storytelling as redemption
* Miranda Hill on Sleeping Funny
* David Gilmour reviews Whore by Nelly Arcan
* Sheri-D Wilson on Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe

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-- Don Gillmor. 

In this episode:

* Don Gillmor on Mount Pleasant
* Corin Raymond on Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
* Antanas Sileika reviews Dear Life by Alice Munro
* Ayelet Tsabari on The Best Place on Earth
* Jen Sookfong Lee reviews A Nation Worth Ranting About by Rick Mercer and The Kind of Life It's Been by Lloyd Robertson

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-- George Elliott Clarke. 

In this episode:

* George Elliott Clarke on Red
* Old Man Luedecke on Mr. Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
* Colin McAdam on A Beautiful Truth
* Becky Blake, winner of the 2013 CBC Short Story Prize.  Read her winning story The Three Times Rule here.

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