What I Read – May 2026

Read: Go Gentle - Maria Semple (Penguin Random House Audio, 2026) (narrated by Saskia Maarleveld) Son of Nobody - Yann Martel (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2026) The Wax Child - Olga Ravn (Book*hug Press, 2025) (translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken) Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy (Scribner Canada, 2025) Yesteryear -… Continue reading What I Read – May 2026

What I Read: May 2024

Read: Doppelganger - Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2023) Kingdom, Grace, Judgement - Robert Farrar Capon (Eerdmans, 2002) Held - Anne Michaels (McClelland & Stewart, 2023) Last Woman - Carleigh Baker (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li (Macmillan Audio, 2022) Present Over Perfect - Shauna Niequist (Zondervan, 2016) The… Continue reading What I Read: May 2024

Book Review: I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

Grove Books, 2024 I don't mind confessing that I was drawn to this book by the combo of the cover picture and the title. The image of simply sailing away from whatever chaos that fire is on the right side and responding, "I cheerfully refuse" when someone tries to draw you into said chaos was… Continue reading Book Review: I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger