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Shelagh Rogers asks her fictional therapist for reading to combat the winter blues

Posted by Kimberly Walsh on February 26 at 12:00 AM

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Lives of Girls and WomenThis week on The Next Chapter, Shelagh Rogers receives a letter from “Wintry Wonderer,” a mother of two living in the prairies, who asks for some book recommendations to help her make it through the long, cold Canadian winter.

Rogers invites her Fictional Therapist, Jo Saul — co-owner of Type Books in Toronto — to weigh in. Instead of recommending a particular book, Saul suggests a list of authors whose writing can help you through all your ills: Bronwen Wallace, Alice Munro and P.K. Page.

Also on the show, Don Cherry shares his list of favourite books, and Randall Maggs, author of Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books) calls in from Cornerbrook, Newfoundland.

First aired Saturday, February 21, 2009 on The Next Chapter. [runs 8:35]

Catch The Next Chapter on Saturdays at 3 p.m. EST (3:30 NT) on CBC Radio One, or listen online.

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