Book & Bramble - October and November 2024

December 4, 2024

A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, I’ll ask you to cast your mind back to the beginning of October, when there were still zinnias in bloom and...

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...