Read: The Future - Catherine Leroux (Biblioasis, 2020) (translated from the French by Susan Ouriou) The Double Life of Benson Yu - Kevin Chong (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2023) Games & Rituals - Katherine Heiny (Penguin Audio, 2023) Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit - Nadine Sander-Green (Anansi, 2024) The Other Valley - Scott Alexander Howard (Scribner Canada,… Continue reading What I Read: March 2024
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Book Review: The Flanders Road by Claude Simon
Claude Simon was a French writer who wrote several semi-autobiographical works, many of which are inspired by his own experiences in World War Two. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985, which is the reason I picked up a copy of The Flanders Road. After learning that Gabriel Garcia Marquez (one of my… Continue reading Book Review: The Flanders Road by Claude Simon
Book Review: The Future by Catherine Leroux
I picked The Future up when it was shortlisted for this year's Canada Reads competition. This is where 5 books are "championed" by famous Canadians over the course of one week until there is one final winner. I always follow along with interest but it doesn't generally add a lot of titles to my TBR.… Continue reading Book Review: The Future by Catherine Leroux
Book Review: 2 Irish Short Story Collections
Antarctica by Claire Keegan and The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy are two short story collections by female Irish writers. Since I read them back to back, it was hard not to compare them as I was reading and I felt it made a sort of sense to… Continue reading Book Review: 2 Irish Short Story Collections
What I Read: February 2024
Read: The End of the World is a Cul de Sac - Louise Kennedy (Riverhead Books, 2023) (289 pages) Antarctica - Claire Keegan (Grove Press, 1999) (201 pages) The Flanders Road - Claude Simon (New York Review Books, 2022) (translated from the French by Richard Howard) (193 pages) The Secret Adversary - Agatha Chrsitie (Blackstone… Continue reading What I Read: February 2024
Book Review: Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
A thought took her by surprise: I should have been born a man. But that wasn't it. She didn't want to be a man. She just wanted to be a woman with the same freedom to choose as a man had. Kate Grenville, Restless Dolly Maunder Dolly Maunder is sharp, smart, and ambitious. Born in… Continue reading Book Review: Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
(Audio) Book Review: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders (Random House, 2017) As you can see, this isn't a strict audio book review in that I read this book in a combination of audio and on the page. I started it on audio but then got a copy out of the library because I was having trouble… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
What I Read: January 2024
Read: Monsters - Claire Dederer (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) (273 pages) What You are Looking for is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama (Harlequin Audio, 2023) (translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts) (8 hours, 22 minutes/304 pages) The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers - Sarah Tomlinson (Flatiron Books) (304 pages) Lincoln in the… Continue reading What I Read: January 2024
Quotes of the Week (vol. 3) and Some Snow Day Pictures
Everything nonsense now. Those mourners came up. Hands extended. Sons intact. Wearing on their faces enforced sadness-masks to hide any sign of their happiness, which --went on. They could not hide how alive they yet were with it, with their happiness at the potential of their still-living sons. Until lately I was one of them.… Continue reading Quotes of the Week (vol. 3) and Some Snow Day Pictures
Book Review: The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
I received an Advance e-copy of this book thanks to the publisher. All opinions are my own. The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers will be on sale 13 February 2024. Mari Hawthorne is a ghost writer. She is the unnamed voice behind several celebrity memoirs. She is the one who comes in, gets to… Continue reading Book Review: The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
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