The Weekend - Charlotte Wood (Riverhead Books, 2019) Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie are women in their 70s who have been friends for decades. Four very different women bound by the years and times they have shared together. Now, though, Sylvie has recently died and Judy, Wendy, and Adele are gathering for one final weekend… Continue reading Book Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Read: The Sea - John Banville (Vintage International, 2005) The Weekend - Charlotte Wood (Riverhead Books, 2019) The Riches of Your Grace - Julie Lane-Gay (InterVarsity Press, 2024) Universality - Natasha Brown (Knopf Canada, 2025) (narrated by Norma Butikofer, Anushka Chakravarti, Clare Corbett, Daniel Weyman) Why I Write - George Orwell (Penguin Books, 2005) Anne… Continue reading What I Read: July 2025
After the death of his wife, Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he spent a transformative summer as a young man. It was here he met The Graces, a wealthy family that he became quickly entwined with. The Sea moves between the present timeline where Morden is a boarder in a house in… Continue reading Book Review: The Sea by John Banville
The last couple of weeks since my previous highlights post have been both full and peaceful for me. While Peter took the girls on epic hikes, I stayed home with the other kid and had a lovely, relaxing time. We planned the hikes around my work schedule so that I could be at home while… Continue reading Summer 2025 Highlights: Part 2
I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book thanks to NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions are my own. Pub Date: August 15 Five Poems Lake is remote town deep in an almost impenetrable desert and the sun is disappearing overhead. Piece by piece, at an unsteady rate, chunks of the sun are vanishing.… Continue reading Book Review: Sunbirth by An Yu
I received an audio version of this book thanks to Libro.fm and the publisher. All opinions are my own. Universality is the sort of book that just as I felt the story was getting somewhere or I was understanding the characters, it moved to a new section or, finally, just ended. There's a story here… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: Universality by Natasha Brown
In these posts I hope to share a little about what I am reading with my two children. Not exactly a review but a look at a book we’ve read together and how it worked for us. For context, my daughters are currently 7- and 10-years old. They are both excellent independent readers but we… Continue reading Reading with Pearl & Rose: The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Dark Like Under - Alice Chadwick (Biblioasis, 2025) I received a free copy of this book thanks to the publisher. All opinions are my own. I hadn't heard of Alice Chadwick's debut novel when Biblioasis reached out to me but the description of Dark Like Under, along with that understated cover quickly appealed. The setting… Continue reading Book Review: Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick
I feel toward Sarah Polley the way I imagine I might feel if someone from my high school had gone on to be famous. Like a friend's older sister, or if we had grown up around the same time in the same small town. We didn't; I've never met Polley and I haven't even followed… Continue reading Book Review: Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
Hello, it’s another installment of Hiking with Dad. This year Rose and I covered part of the Sunshine Coast Trail that goes up Tin Hat Mountain, down to a place called Fiddlehead Landing, up another big hill to Confederation Lake, and then a final long descent to Inland Lake where we parked our car. I… Continue reading Guest Post: Sunshine Coast Trail 2025
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