Review: The Names by Florence Knapp Synopsis What’s in a name? Would your life have played out exactly the same if your parents had chosen a different name for you? In her debut novel, The Names, Florence Knapp explores this question by following three separate timelines in which Cora, the abused wife of a well-respected…
Review of Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney Proto Synopsis An engaging look at the mother of almost half of the world’s languages, Proto-Indo-European, and how we are able to track the movements of its pre-historic speakers through the DNA and linguistic clues they left behind. (In other words, Proto is…
Audition by Katie Kitamura Synopsis Audition is a literary novel that’s told in two seemingly contradictory parts, the first of which begins with a middle-aged actress and a young wannabe actor meeting for lunch in a restaurant. Is this the meeting of a celebrity and a fan? Of secret lovers? Of mother and son? Something…
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk Synopsis Journalist Faiz Siddiqui, who has been following Elon Musk’s life and career closely for several years, lays out the meteoric rise and beginnings of the puzzling fall of the world’s richest man. How on earth did we get here?? My Review The past 3 months have felt…
The Top 100 Canadian Books of All Time Greatest Canadian books? As a proud Canadian as well as a passionate literature buff, I’ve often tried to find the definitive answer to the question, “What are the greatest Canadian books of all time?” The problem is, it’s not really a question that seems to be explored…
Ancient Egyptian Language and Literature: From the Old Kingdom to the New Introduction When you think of Ancient Egyptian as a language, you probably think of the famous hieroglyphs (such as those pictured left) drawn or engraved all over Egypt’s ancient tombs, but did you know that there was another, less formal writing system that…
Hello and welcome to my reading wrap-up for the month of March! March was a huge reading month for me, but I’ve actually posted about most of the books I read already, so this will just be a brief recap of my thoughts on each. As usual, each book title contains a clickable link to…