The Accidental Favourite - Fran Littlewood (MacMillan Audio, 2025) (narrated by Fiona Button) I received an Advance Listening Copy of this book thanks to Libro.fm and the publisher. All opinions are my own. My reading of this book suffered slightly by the fact that it took me so long to finish it. This is not… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: The Accidental Favourite by Fran Littlewood
The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell (Headline, 2010) My introduction to Maggie O'Farrell's work was through her most recent novels, both of which are historical fiction. (My review of Hamnet and of The Marriage Portrait.) This earlier work from O'Farrell has a twentieth century setting and maybe it was this or the… Continue reading Book Review: The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
School is back in session and autumn schedules are commencing. It's still warm around here but our skies are hazy from surrounding wildfires. Fall is here and so I'm offering up one final post of summer highlights. Our summer was full and wonderful and went by far too quickly. Some years, by the time September… Continue reading Summer 2025 Highlights: Part 4
Horsefly - Mireille Gagnon (Coach House Books, 2025) (translated from the French by Pablo Strauss) I've read enough Quebecois literature in translation by now to know that it's all a little bit weird. But always in a very fascinating way. Horsefly is a story told in two timelines with two different men. Thomas is a… Continue reading Book Review: Horsefly by Mireille Gagnon
Read: The Penderwicks at Point Mouette - Jeanne Birdsall (Books on Tape, 2011) (narrated by Susan Denaker) The Tiger and the Cosmonaut - Eddy Boudel Tan (Viking, 2025) The End of the Alphabet - C.S. Richardson (Doubleday Canada, 2007) North of Normal - Cea Sunrise Person (Harper Perennial, 2014) Where Angels Fear to Tread -… Continue reading What I Read: August 2025
Hello, I'm continuing the saga of Hiking with Dad. Once Rose and I had completed our hike of Tin Hat Mountain, I was home for two nights with the whole family (in which I frantically continued to build a fence) and then Pearl and I headed off on our annual adventure. Our goal this year… Continue reading Guest Post: Sunshine Coast Trail 2025 Pt. 2
This is a long, non-bookish post featuring a lot of pictures of my family and dinosaurs and beautiful scenery. Don't say I didn't warn you. Let's begin. It started with a t-shirt from the thrift store. As many kids do, our oldest, Pearl, went through a dinosaur phase when she was younger. She loved watching… Continue reading Summer 2025 Highlights: Part 3 (Road Trip Edition)
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
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