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Book @ Bramble - August & September 2024
September 24, 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Before dusk this evening, I went out and gathered up all the remaining peppers and cucumbers. I rounded up any...
Book & Bramble - June & July 2024
July 31, 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, From my writing desk, I have a view of the garden. It’s been a slow start to the growing season here, and it feels...
Book & Bramble - Special Announcement!
July 13, 2024
A Letter From Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, I'm going to be a published novelist!!! My debut novel, A Widow's Charm, will be published in the spring of 2026!...
Book & Bramble - April & May 2024
June 4, 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, In the blink of an eye, two months have passed. Here on the Island, we have gone from winter to (still rather...
Book & Bramble - March 2024
April 1, 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, In a lot of ways, this March felt like a month of waiting. Waiting for various professional shenanigans to be...
Book & Bramble - February 2024
February 27, 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, This month, winter came upon the Island with a vengeance, burying us under a veritable mountain of snow. The drifts...
Book & Bramble - January 2024
January 28, 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, The first letter of a new year ought to be a fresh start full of possibility, but I have to admit that this...
Book & Bramble - November & December 2023
December 18, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, It’s unseasonably warm on the Island and we’re battening the hatches for a wind storm that’s heading up the coast...
Book & Bramble - October 2023
November 2, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, A mere week ago it still felt like the end of summer here on the Island. Since then, we’ve had our first snow and...
Book & Bramble - September 2023
October 11, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, I realize it’s a bit late to ask you to cast your mind back to September, but here we are. I honestly can’t believe...
Book & Bramble - August 2023
September 3, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, This morning, I sat on the front porch and watched summer sidle into fall. We had a very rainy August, but the...
Book & Bramble - June & July 2023
July 31, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Where has the summer gone? June slipped away from me and suddenly it’s the end of July, and I haven’t written to...
Book & Bramble - May 2023
June 9, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Greetings from an Island where it is maybe finally starting to feel like summer! I’ve delayed sending out May’s...
Book & Bramble - April 2023
May 7, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, For some reason it feels like an exceptionally long time since I last wrote to you! Maybe it’s because I travelled...
Book & Bramble - March 2023
April 7, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Living in the Northeast, I have long thought that March is the least romantic month. It is full of too much cold...
Book & Bramble - February 2023
March 7, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, February has come and gone, and here on the other side, it doesn’t feel like spring yet, but it does feel as though...
Book & Bramble - January 2023
February 2, 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, It feels as though it has been a long time since I last wrote to you. I find that winters here on the Island have...
Book & Bramble - November & December 2022
December 14, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, We had our first real snow today. Image Description: The fields covered in new snow underneath a dramatic sky....
Book & Bramble - October 2022
November 4, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, October has long been my favorite month, and I try to savor it – but I will admit, this one passed in a flurry of...
Book & Bramble - September 2022
September 29, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, It’s only been a few weeks since the August edition of Book & Bramble went out, but it feels like a million years!...
Book & Bramble - August 2022
September 11, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, I’m sorry to say that it’s getting rather late for an August missive. The chill started creeping into our nights...
Book & Bramble - July 2022
August 1, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, July passed in a haze of sun, work, and flowers. Going through my photos for the month, it’s pretty obvious that my...
Book & Bramble - June 2022
July 1, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, The solstice has passed and now summer is upon us with a riot of blooms. June is such a joy to behold after a long...
Book & Bramble - May 2022
May 31, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Last weekend I woke up to a summery Sunday morning, so I put on a yellow dress and an absurdly large hat and went...
Book & Bramble - April 2022
May 2, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, April. Stuck between the icy majesty of winter and the long-awaited arrival of spring, it has fluctuated between...
Book & Bramble - March 2022
April 5, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, March is a month of waiting here on this northerly island. When it began, it was still the dead of winter. Image...
Book & Bramble February 2022
March 7, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, February may now be a week in the past, but it still feels like deep winter here on Prince Edward Island/Epekwitk....
Book & Bramble - January 2022
February 28, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, We are on the brink of March as I write this, but I hope you won’t mind rambling back to January with me so I can...
Book & Bramble - Welcome
February 24, 2022
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Hello, and welcome to my monthly newsletter! I’m a storyteller who reviews books and writes things and interprets...