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
Tag: Hamish Hamilton
Book Review: Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
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
What I Read – November 2023
Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (Harper Audio, 2005) Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad (Riverhead Books, 2019) Girlfriend on Mars - Deborah Willis (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler (Mariner Books, 2019) The Wild Heavens - Sarah Louise Butler (Douglas & McIntyre, 2020) Daughter - Claudia… Continue reading What I Read – November 2023
Book Review: Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis
Girlfriend on Mars - Deborah Willis (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) Amber Kivinen has been accepted as a contestant for the ambitious MarsNow program. One of 24 selected from hundreds of applicants, Amber will participate in a reality TV Program to pick two finalists who will launch into space and be the first man and woman on… Continue reading Book Review: Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis
Book Review: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
A History of My Brief Body - Billy-Ray Belcourt (Hamish Hamilton, 2020) It's clear from the beginning that this is not going to be a gentle book. Right away in his Preface: A Letter to Nôhkom, Belcourt says, "Nôhkom, I'm not safe. Canada is still in the business of gunning down NDNs...Despite the stories of… Continue reading Book Review: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
What I Read – January 2021
Read: What Kind of Woman - Kate Baer (Harper Perennial, 2020) The Arsonists' City - Hala Alyan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) A History of My Brief Body - Billy-Ray Belcourt (Hamish Hamilton, 2020) A Treasury of Short Stories edited by Bernardine Kielty (Simon & Schuster, 1947) Currently Reading: On Reading Well - Karen Swallow Prior… Continue reading What I Read – January 2021
What I Read – October 2020
Read: Mother Mother - Jessica O'Dwyer (Apprentice House Press, 2020) The Bird King - G. Willow Wilson (Grove Press, 2019) The Party Upstairs - Lee Conell (Penguin Press, 2020) Bunny - Mona Awad (Hamish Hamilton, 2019) It Would Be Night in Caracas - Karina Sainz Borgo (translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer) (HarperVia, 2019)… Continue reading What I Read – October 2020
Book Review: Bunny by Mona Awad
Bunny - Mona Awad (Hamish Hamilton, 2019) What even is this book? I didn’t get it at all. And part me is a little embarassed to admit that because this is so clearly a book that's trying to say something and, yes, I get that it’s all a metaphor and kill your darlings and what… Continue reading Book Review: Bunny by Mona Awad
Book Review: The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Man Who Say Everything - Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton, 2019) It's hard to know how to talk about this book. Divided into two parts, there is a sort of reveal halfway through and that becomes clearer as the book progresses to the end that makes it clear what this book is about and what… Continue reading Book Review: The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
What I Read – August 2019
Read: We Went to the Woods - Caite Dolan-Leach (Random House, 2019) Black Light - Kimberly King Parsons ( Vintage Books, 2019) All the Bad Apples - Moira Fowley-Doyle (Kathy Dawson Books, 2019) As Many Nows as I Can Get - Shana Youngdahl (Dial Books, 2019) My Conversations with Canadians - Lee Maracle (BookThug, 2017)… Continue reading What I Read – August 2019
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