It's been a bit since I did one of these (and you'll see why in a minute) but 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.… Continue reading Reading with Pearl & Rose: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Read: So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell (Vintage International, 1996) Kin - Tayari Jones (Viking, 2026) The Distance of a Shout - Michael Ondaatje (McClelland & Stewart, 2026) The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street - Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (Douglas & MacIntyre, 2026) Chernobyl Prayer - Svetlana Alexievich (Penguin Audio, 2021) (translated from the… Continue reading What I Read – April 2026
Read: The Singer's Gun - Emily St. John Mandel (Vintage Books, 2015) The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan (Simon & Schuster, 2022) Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter - Heather Fawcett (Penguin Random House Audio, 2026) The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965) Here for a Good Time - Kim Spencer… Continue reading What I Read – March 2026
Read: What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew - Sharone Saline (Tarcher Perigree, 2018) Song of the Sun God - Shankar Chandran (narrated by Shabana Azeez) How About Now - Kate Baer (Harper Perennial, 2025) Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor Books, 1991) (translated from Arabic by Olive E. Kenny & William Maynard Hutchins) Like… Continue reading What I Read – November 2025
Read: Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada, 2025) (narrated by Zoe Doyle) White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Random House UK, 2025) (narrated by Luke Thompson) After Birth - Elisa Albert (Mariner Books, 2015) The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (Penguin Classics, 1998) Ripeness - Sarah Moss (MacMillan Audio, 2025) (narrated by Flora Montgomery) The… Continue reading What I Read – October 2025
Read: The Hand that First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell (Headline, 2010) The Golden Age - Kenneth Grahame (Dover Publications, 2005) The Accidental Favourite - Fran Littlewood (MacMillan Audio, 2025) (narrated by Fiona Button) Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje (McClelland & Stewart, 2007) Heart the Lover - Lily King (Harper Collins Publishers, 2025) (narrated by Rebecca… Continue reading What I Read – September 2025
The Mythmakers - John Hendrix (Abrams, 2024) Two of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century - and certainly two of the most influential voices in the realm of fantasy literature - are undoubtedly J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. There aren't many readers in the Western world today who haven't been influenced by their… Continue reading Book Review: The Mythmakers by John Hendrix
Read: The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022) The End of the Affair - Graham Greene (Heinemann, 1966) The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue (Harper Avenue, 2020) Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owen (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018) Classic Crime Short Stories (Canongate Books, 2007) The Three Lives of… Continue reading What I Read – January 2023
After my lacklustre showing for October, I kicked my reading up a notch for November READ: A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (Little, Brown & Company, 1993) (Read my full review here.) Fat, ligament, muscle, blood, hair, affection, pity, despair, anxiety, illness: all were no more. She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem… Continue reading What I Read – November 2018
READ: Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng (Penguin Press, 2017) This book wasn't at all what I expected but it was so much better. Such a compelling read and Ng nails so much of what is wonderful and terrifying about motherhood. Highly recommended. Our Animal Hearts - Dania Tomlinson (Anchor Canada, 2018) Full review here. The Silmarillion -… Continue reading What I Read – June 2018
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