North Woods - Daniel Mason (Books on Tape, 2023) Having read Daniel Mason's short story collection some years ago (review here), I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to read a full novel from him. I enjoyed the stories but I actually ended that review saying I wasn't sure whether or not his style… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: North Woods by Daniel Mason
The winter holidays are an excellent time to dive into Charles Dickens' work. And while I didn't read all of this over my Christmas break, I did give it a good start and finished a couple weeks later. (It's not short!) I've read some of Dickens' work where I've been grabbed almost immediately and others… Continue reading Book Review: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Sing To It - Amy Hempel (Scribner, 2019) This collection of short stories by Amy Hempel is short and melodic and the best way I can describe it is that many of the stories feel more like poems. Many are very short - the book is only 149 pages long but has 15 stories within… Continue reading Book Review: Sing To It by Amy Hempel
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
I received an Advance Readers Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. Publication date: February 4, 2025 An email asking if I would be interested in reviewing this book landed in my inbox at the beginning of December. Normally, romance books aren't something I read much of and a new publishing imprint from… Continue reading Book Review: On Screen & Off Again by Caitlin Cross
Shark Heart: A Love Story - Emily Habeck (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2023) "It's about a man who turns into a shark," I told my family when they asked what I was listening to. "I think it's a metaphor." I still think it's a metaphor but I'm not entirely sure for what. Domestic violence, I… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
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
As For Me and My House - Sinclair Ross (New Canadian Library, 1971) This book is something of a Canadian classic, often showing up on lists of Canadian books through the years. It's a Depression-era book through and through, from the prairie setting to the drought to the bleakness of every aspect in it. It's… Continue reading Book Review: As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
Casey is in her early 30s, living in a converted garage, struggling to write a novel. Her mother has recently died and she's found herself devastated in the wake of a whirlwind romance. Waitressing pays her bills and while she's watched so many of her artist friends fade into suburban life, Casey holds on to… Continue reading Book Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
This book had been sitting on my TBR for so long that I had forgotten what it was about. While the book came out in 2019, it really could have been written in any year since then and felt shockingly, tragically fresh. The book opens in 1991 in Los Angeles where we meet teenage Shawn… Continue reading Book Review: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
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