At a Loss for Words - Carol Off (Random House Canada, 2024) Carol Off is a widely respected Canadian journalist, the longtime host of CBC’s As It Happens. As such, and because I have read a book by Off before, I felt confident this book would be illuminating and fair and it did not disappoint.… Continue reading Book Review: At a Loss for Words by Carol Off
Abigail - Magda Szabo (New York Review Books, 2020) This book was translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix. I think we can all be guilty sometimes of assuming that people who lived a long time ago (and by extension, books written by and about people who lived a long time ago), aren't going to… Continue reading Book Review: Abigail by Magda Szabo
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) I received an Advance Reader's Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. Pub date: February 25, 2025 No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing… Continue reading Book Review: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
It's mid-February and the rain has returned but we had an absolutely beautiful and sunny January. Maybe it's the Vitamin D I started taking this winter, but even though January felt about 7 weeks long, it didn't feel nearly so dreary as it usually does. We had a family weekend away, booked a hotel in… Continue reading Some 2025 Highlights
North Woods - Daniel Mason (Books on Tape, 2023) Having read Daniel Mason's short story collection some years ago (review here), I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to read a full novel from him. I enjoyed the stories but I actually ended that review saying I wasn't sure whether or not his style… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: North Woods by Daniel Mason
The winter holidays are an excellent time to dive into Charles Dickens' work. And while I didn't read all of this over my Christmas break, I did give it a good start and finished a couple weeks later. (It's not short!) I've read some of Dickens' work where I've been grabbed almost immediately and others… Continue reading Book Review: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Sing To It - Amy Hempel (Scribner, 2019) This collection of short stories by Amy Hempel is short and melodic and the best way I can describe it is that many of the stories feel more like poems. Many are very short - the book is only 149 pages long but has 15 stories within… Continue reading Book Review: Sing To It by Amy Hempel
Read: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) Writers & Lovers - Lily King (Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 2020) Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha (Ecco, 2019) Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid (Plume, 191) The Gulag Archipelago, Vol 1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Harper Collins Audio,… Continue reading What I Read: January 2025
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