A friend pushed this book into my hands, telling me that she had devoured it over one weekend. She'd found so much to relate to within its pages, she told me, even as she reassured me that her husband is great. It was a statement worth making because the husband on these pages is pretty… Continue reading Book Review: Liars by Sarah Manguso
Intermezzo - Sally Rooney (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2024) An intermezzo, in music, is a short instrumental movement between larger acts. In chess, it refers to an unexpected move that forces an immediate response. Reading these definitions after I finished Sally Rooney's most recent novel, it struck me immediately what a fitting title the book… Continue reading Book Review: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead Books, 2024) (translated to English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) The Empusium - a strange sort of novel set in a sanitorium, health resort town in the early 20th century with a mysterious, plural-voiced ghost-like narration - is a tricky book to describe. I like Tokarczuk's work quite a lot -… Continue reading Book Review: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
Our sweet, not-so-little girl is 7! I'm a bit behind in posting this (and Peter has also had a birthday since) but today is Thanksgiving here in Canada and at the top of my Thankfulness List are my girls. Rose is funny, feisty, affectionate, and daring. She loves to be with her friends, she loves… Continue reading Rose is 7!
Small Animals - Kim Brooks (Flatiron Books, 2018) When Kim Brooks' son was 4-years-old, she took him along for a last minute errand at a Target while she was visiting her parents in the state of Virginia. Once there, young Felix wanted to stay in the car and so Brooks allowed it. She locked the… Continue reading Book Review: Small Animals by Kim Brooks
Read: The Names of all the Flowers - Melissa Valentine (The Feminist Press, 2020) Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen (Mariner Books, 2021) Really Good, Actually - Monica Heisey (Harper Collins, 2023) The Epic of Gilgamesh - trans. N.K. Sandars (Penguin Classics, 1964) The Husbands - Holly Gramazio (Doubleday Canada, 2024) The Heaven &… Continue reading What I Read: September 2024
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