Book Review: Stay Up With Hugo Best by Erin Somers
Stay Up With Hugo Best by Erin Somers is one of those books that takes place over a specific, short period of time; in this case, it’s the Memorial Day long weekend in the United States. This type of...
View ArticleBook Review: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
No doubt this book title and/or author name sounds familiar to you. I’m probably writing this review five months too late because the hype was at a deafening roar during its release in March, but I’ve...
View ArticleComparison Book Review, A Tale of Two Wives: The Starter Wife vs. Autopsy of...
I try to avoid reviewing two or more novels in one post because I like to give each author their due, but these two books were begging to be compared against one another, and quite frankly, I’m reading...
View ArticleBook Review: Alice & Oliver by Charles Bock
Ok, prepare yourself; this is a heart-wrenching read. Not this review (hopefully!) but this book: Alice & Oliver by Charles Bock. I must have been feeling particularly masochistic when I read the...
View ArticleBook Review: The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron
The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron is a unique sort of book; one of the two narratives it includes is told from the perspective of a Neanderthal, someone who doesn’t have developed language...
View ArticleBook Review: Every Little Piece of Me by Amy Jones
Every Little Piece of Me by Amy Jones is a book that will make you cringe. You’ll cringe because of the character’s actions, you’ll cringe because you’ll recognize the destructive behaviour they...
View ArticleBook Review: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Bafflingly, Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams has been called “A black Bridget Jones” by Kirkus Reviews, which in my mind, does a huge disservice to this taut, intelligent and dark read. Although the...
View ArticleBook Review: Sleepless Night by Margriet de Moor
Written by the “grand dame of Dutch literature”, Sleepless Night by Margriet de Moor is 122 pages of reminiscing and remembrance. Translated from the Dutch by David Doherty, it follows a widow over one...
View ArticleBook Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
I wasn’t really planning on reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood for a few reasons; it had been ages since I’d read The Handmaid’s Tale, I hadn’t seen the television adaptation of it, and I...
View ArticleBook Review: Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
Can I get a hurrah for linked short story collections? Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta is a quiet yet decisive book that doesn’t gloss over the first and second generation immigrant experience in...
View ArticleBook Review: Lampedusa by Steven Price
Dear reader; I wanted so much to like Lampedusa by Steven Price. At the time I’m writing this, it was announced as a shortlist contender for the Giller Prize, and because so many people in Canada are...
View ArticleBook Review: The Waiting Hours by Shandi Mitchell
There’s always a few jobs out there that one knows for certain they could never handle. Personally, I could never be a teacher because I can barely manage my own two children and I find all their...
View ArticleBook Review: Reproduction by Ian Williams
Reproduction by Ian Williams, shortlisted for the 2019 Giller Prize is a quirky read. Aside from this book being PAINFULLY LONG, I enjoyed it. It plays with lots of things: format, timelines, even...
View ArticleBook Review: Small Game Hunting At the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
Long title, long book. Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles may scare off people for a few different reasons, one of them being the warning issued at the beginning: “This...
View ArticleBook Review: The Innocents by Michael Crummey
Let me set the scene for you: two kids live in an extremely isolated cove, their parents die, and they are forced to harvest and catch their own food as a means of survival. That’s it. That’s the book....
View ArticleBook Review: Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin
Did you watch the Giller awards on Monday night? I was glued to the television screen, strangely nervous to see who the winner of Canada’s biggest book prize would be. As you no doubt realized already,...
View ArticleBook Review: Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor
I’m a big fan of Drew Hayden Taylor‘s writing. His words are funny, empathetic, and entertaining all at the same time. Every book of his I read, I’m more hopeful that Canada’s indigenous population,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Need by Helen Phillips
As a mother of two young children, I was hesitant to pick up a book about a mother of two young children. Especially when this book is also about an intruder who breaks into the house while the mother...
View ArticleBook Review: Starlight by Richard Wagamese
How do you properly review a book that’s unfinished? Starlight by Richard Wagamese is the novel he was writing when he suddenly died, leaving can-lit lovers like myself in mourning. With his death, we...
View ArticleBook Review: Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
This review has been a long time coming. Not because I’ve put off writing it, but because it took me so bloody long to read this book: two whole months which is definitely a record for me. At 988...
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