Monday Was A Simpler Time: Reflections on a Pandemic Each August my small town plays host to the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. It is the longest running writers festival to feature solely Canadian authors. For four days every summer, readers and writers come together to celebrate the written word. It is a… Continue reading Book Review: Monday Was A Simpler Time
Real Life - Brandon Taylor (Riverhead Books, 2020) Real Life takes place primarily over a single weekend in the life of Wallace, a grad student in the Midwest and a young, gay, Black man. He's an introvert and someone who always feels on the outside, no matter who he is with. Over the course of… Continue reading Book Review: Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Prayer - Philip Yancey (Zondervan, 2007) I’ve read several books by Philip Yancey now and I keep coming back to his work because I truly appreciate his honesty, humility, and willingness to admit what he doesn’t know. In this book Yancey tackles the subject of prayer. (Probably could have guessed that.) What is prayer? Why… Continue reading Book Review: Prayer by Philip Yancey
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
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
The Party Upstairs - Lee Conell (Penguin Press, 2020) I received and Advance Readers' Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. Ruby has just moved back in with her parents. Twentysomething, recently lost her job, her relationship ended, she's back home with mom and dad. Home is in the heart of New York… Continue reading Book Review: The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell
The Bird King - G. Willow Wilson (Grove Press, 2019) Fatima is a concubine in the luxurious confines of the Alhambra. Born into captivity, she has never left the Alhambra. She lives in luxury, a favourite of the sultan, but outside the palace confines, the sultan's power is coming to an end as Spain is… Continue reading Book Review: The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
Mother Mother - Jessica O'Dwyer (Apprentice House Press, 2020) I received an e-ARC of this book thanks to the publisher and NetGalley. All opinions are my own. It is on sale now. When Julie and Mark embark on adopting a baby from Guatemala, they have no idea of the challenges they will face. After an… Continue reading Book Review: Mother Mother by Jessica O’Dwyer
Hamnet & Judith - Maggie O'Farrell ( In the 1580s, a couple living in Henley Street, Stratford, had three children: Susanna, then Hamnet and Judith, who were twins.The boy, Hamnet, died in 1596, aged eleven.Four years or so later, the father wrote a play called Hamlet.Hamnet & Judith - Maggie O'Farrell With this historical note… Continue reading Book Review: Hamnet & Judith by Maggie O’Farrell
Read: Family in Six Tones - Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao (Putnam, 2020) God in My Everything - Ken Shigematsu (Zondervan, 2013) Hamnet & Judith - Maggie O'Farrell (Knopf Canada, 2020) The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead (Bond Street Books, 2020) The Apothecary - Maile Meloy (Puffin Books, 2011) How Much of These… Continue reading What I Read – September 2020
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