Summer is, hands down, the best time to be here on the Sunshine Coast. Every year we struggle with the fact that summer is our time with a looser schedule and so our opportunity to travel, versus the fact that it's so darn nice where we already live. School finished in the last week of… Continue reading Summer 2025 Highlights: Part 1
Heart Lamp - Banu Mushtaq (And Other Stories, 2025) When I heard that Heart Lamp was the winner of this year's International Booker Prize, I'll admit that my first reaction was disappointment in that cover. I had my bookseller eyes on in this circumstance, where short story collections don't generally sell that well and covers… Continue reading Book Review: Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq
I received an Advance Listening Copy of this book thanks to the publisher and Libro.fm. All opinions are my own. David A. Robertson is a prolific Indigenous-Canadian author who has written picture books, middle-grade stories, graphic novels, and two memoirs. He'll be one of the featured writers at our local Writers Fest this August, in… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: 52 Ways to Reconcile by David A. Robertson
Read: Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021) Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson (Penguin Random House, 2025) (narrated by January LaVoy) Honeydew: Stories - Edith Pearlman (Little, Brown and Company, 2015) Tenth of December: Stories - George Saunders (Random House, 2023) The Wedding People - Alison Espach (Macmillan Audio, 2024) (narrated by Helen… Continue reading What I Read: June 2025
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 Vanderbeekers of 141st Street – Karina Yan Glaser
The Red Chesterfield - Wayne Arthurson (University of Calgary Press, 2019) What a weird little book. This has been sitting on my TBR since 2020 when Arthurson was supposed to be one of the featured authors at that years Writers Fest. I finally picked up a copy at the library and read it in one… Continue reading Book Review: The Red Chesterfield by Wayne Arthurson
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2024) The protagonist of Nightbitch is a young mother of a toddler, a two-year-old boy, who gave up her career as an artist to be a stay-at-home parent. Her husband has a demanding job, one that takes him out of town from Monday to Friday. This is… Continue reading Book Review: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
My little herb garden The other weekend, temperatures reached in the high 20s and it really did feel like summer was around the corner. This past week though has been cooler and a little rainy but we're still gearing up for summer. One more week of school while other activities have finished up. Lots of… Continue reading 2025 Highlights: Spring Edition
I received an Advance Listening Copy of this book thanks to Libro.fm and the publisher. All opinions are my own. Audition was less than 5 hours to listen to but was a book that kept me thinking about it far longer afterward. In the first half, the narrator, a woman somewhere probably in her 50s,… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura
Molly Gray is an excellent maid. She might not always understand other people's facial expressions but she excels at "returning rooms to a state of perfection" at the Regency Grand Hotel. Since her Gran died a few months ago, Molly's been navigating the world on her own. She thinks she's doing okay until the day… Continue reading Book Review: The Maid by Nita Prose
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