Present Tense Machine - Gunnhild Oyehaug (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022) (translated from Norwegian by Kari Dickson) This is a book more about a concept than a story. Which isn't to say it's not an interesting book, it's just a book where it's more about the idea than the plot or the characters. Anna and… Continue reading Book Review: Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Oyehaug
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
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 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… Continue reading Reading with Pearl & Rose: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Read: Doppelganger - Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2023) Kingdom, Grace, Judgement - Robert Farrar Capon (Eerdmans, 2002) Held - Anne Michaels (McClelland & Stewart, 2023) Last Woman - Carleigh Baker (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li (Macmillan Audio, 2022) Present Over Perfect - Shauna Niequist (Zondervan, 2016) The… Continue reading What I Read: May 2024
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
Death is Hard Work - Khaled Khalifa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) When Bolbol's father dies his final request is to be buried with his sister in their hometown. The town is located a couple of hours drive away from where Bolbol lives (and where his father died). No big deal, right? Except what if… Continue reading Book Review: Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
Read: Carry Me - Peter Behrens (Anansi, 2016) Boys: What It Means to Become a Man - Rachel Giese (Patrick Crean Editions, 2018) Crow - Amy Spurway (Goose Lane, 2019) Celebration of Discipline - Richard J. Foster (HarperOne, 2018) Chop Suey Nation - Ann Hui (Douglas & McIntyre, 2019) A Prayer Journal - Flannery O'Connor… Continue reading What I Read – May 2019
Silence - Shusaku Endo (Picador Classic, 2015) translated from the Japanese by William Johnston But Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt - this is the realization that came home to… Continue reading What I Read – May 2017
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