This is really just a post to throw a bunch of photos and anecdotes out there. Here’s some stuff that’s happened in the last few weeks: The girls turned our living room into a blanket fort. Saw a mom friend share on Instagram that her daughters had turned their living room into a blanket fort… Continue reading Life: Stuff That’s Happened
Read: Good Material - Dolly Alderton (Doubleday Canada, 2024) The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk (translated from the polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Riverhead Books, 2024) Intermezzo - Sally Rooney (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024) The Office of Historical Corrections - Danielle Evans (Penguin Audio, 2020) The Stolen Bicycle - Wu Ming-Yi (translated from the Mandarin by Darryl… Continue reading What I Read: October 2024
For the past few years I've set goals as to how many books I hope to read in a year. They've been good goals and they've helped me read more but I feel the need to shake things up in 2024. I've been feeling the pull to read some more of the real tomes that… Continue reading The Goliath Challenge (and Other 2024 Reading Goals)
Read: The Cocktail Party - T.S. Eliot (Faber & Faber, 1954) Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein - Anne Eekhout (HarperVia, 2023) The Last - Hanna Jameson (Atria Books, 2019) Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny (Random House Audio, 2021) Away from the Dead - Dave Bergen (Goose Lane Editions, 2023) Land of Milk and… Continue reading What I Read – October 2023
The good neighbourhood (I'm sorry, I will spell the title the way the book spells it but otherwise I'm going to spell it right!) of this novel is Oak Knolls, a quiet, middle class suburban area of North Carolina where the neighbours know each other and many have lived side by side for years. Valerie… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
Orphaned Believers - Sara Billups (Baker Books, 2023) Sara Billups' Orphaned Believers has a very specific audience and may seem strange in parts to readers who don't share her upbringing. But to those who do...hoo boy, will you feel seen! Billups delves into the 1980s and 1990s so-called "culture wars" that existed between the Evangelical… Continue reading Book Review: Orphaned Believers by Sara Billups
Read: Two-Part Invention - Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988) Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Vintage Classics, 1994) (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) Instructions for the Drowning - Steven Heighton (Biblioasis, 2023) The Memory of Animals - Claire Fuller (Tin House, 2023) Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson (Little,… Continue reading What I Read – April 2023
The four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - flee the Dominican Republic for New York City after their father is involved in an attempted coup. In the Dominican, they were part of a broad, wealthy, and extended family, abounding in cousins and aunts and uncles, their lives looped and overlapping. In America… Continue reading Book Review: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
READ: We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky - Emma Hooper (Penguin, 2022) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991) A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes (Harper Audio, 2021) The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff (Ballantine Books, 2023) La Guerre, Yes Sir! - Roch Carrier… Continue reading What I Read – March 2023
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff (Ballantine Books, 2023) Ever since her husband disappeared five years ago, Geeta has been an outcast in her village. Popular opinion says she killed Ramesh but the truth is, Geeta has no idea where he is and she’s happy to never see him again. Geeta sticks to herself, making… Continue reading Book Review: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
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