I’ve never really felt all that Canadian. My parents came to Canada just a year before I was born, and didn’t really take to a lot of the quintessentially Canadian pastimes and cultural touch points. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot I love about my country. It’s beautiful, diverse, full of opportunities READ MORE
Month: February 2018
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WOULD TAKE TO A DESERT ISLAND WITH ME
This week’s topic is books I’ll never get sick of re-reading, and in order to really consider this prompt, I imagined a situation where these are the only books I have, possibly for the rest of my life. Would I still feel that they stood up to that kind of deep reading? Would they READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | HUNGER – ROXANE GAY
I’m a little ashamed to admit that this was my first foray into the work of Roxane Gay. I don’t know how, but I have somehow managed to miss her previously published works – though they all sound like they are exactly my kind of books. I was drawn to this because of the READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I’M JUST NOT THAT INTO
There are so many books out there waiting to be read. SO MANY. And they all have devoted fans, many of whom share that fandom in public forums – like book blogs and BookTube. And the problem with that is that if I hear one person enthuse about a book that just isn’t really READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | A FEW TAKES ON LOVE
As you know if you’ve been around this neck of the woods for any length of time, I’m not really much for romance. So asking me to share my favourite romantic books is an exercise in futility. So instead, I’m going to do a few different riffs on the general theme and see where READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM – JOAN DIDION
This was my first foray into Didion’s writing, and now I’m wondering what took me so long. Slouching Towards Bethlehem seemed to be a good place to start, comprised as it is of a selection of short essays on various topics. She covers everything from a murder case to hippies in San Francisco to READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | ANOTHER BROOKLYN – JACQUELINE WOODSON
I’ve been meaning to read Jacqueline Woodson for a very long time. Her memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, has been sitting on my shelf, waiting for me to get around to it, for years. I’m very grateful that this book was on sale, and that I decided to pick it up one day because of READ MORE