Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson: REVIEW Synopsis Jet Mason has 7 days to live, and she intends to spend every minute she has left tracking down the person who has murdered her. My Review After loving Five Survive and the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder installments I’ve read so far, Holly Jackson has become an…
A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews: REVIEW Synopsis In this memoir slash stream-of-consciousness essay, Miriam Toews struggles to answer the question, “Why do I write?” while dealing with thoughts of suicide. My Review Word to the wise: This isn’t one for the easily triggered. In this era of dancing around the word…
Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne: REVIEW Synopsis Joy Moody has been lying to her twin daughters their whole lives. She was only trying to protect them at first, and she intended to tell them the truth eventually. But now she’s suffering from an illness that’s blurring the lines between what’s real…
Top 100 Canadian Books: Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis Top 100 Canadian Books of All Time In case you haven’t seen my Top 100 Canadian Books of All Time list, here’s a brief explanation. A few months ago, I looked at all the Top Canadian Books lists and prestigious Canadian literary awards I could find,…
Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones: REVIEW Synopsis In The Killer on the Road, teenage runaway Harper intends to hitchhike as far away from her controlling mother as she can get, but a truck-driving serial killer has other plans for her. And in The Babysitter Lives, teenage babysitter Charlotte takes…
July Reading Wrap-Up and August Plans Hello! Welcome to my 2025 July reading wrap-up. I’ll be up front with you guys – July was a BEAR of a month for me. I moved to another town, and almost everything that could go wrong with that process went spectacularly wrong. Still cleaning up a lot of…