The Award by Matthew Pearl: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. He lives in an apartment above Silas Hale, a famous author who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster. Silas refuses to…
Canada Reads 2026 Shortlist: My Thoughts The Canada Reads 2026 shortlist was announced this morning, so let’s talk about it. The Shortlist and Debaters Filmmaker and actor Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers champions A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt “A Minor Chorus is a novel that follows an unnamed narrator who abandons his thesis and goes back to his…
Eight Million Ways to Happiness by Hiroko Yoda: REVIEW Synopsis Japanese cultural historian Hiroko Yoda explains the Japanese mindset to Westerners by sharing her own journey with Japanese ritual and spirituality after the deaths of her parents. My Review As the author points out, the Western world often has a hard time understanding Japanese culture.…
December 2025 Reading Wrap-Up Hello! Welcome to my December 2025 Reading Wrap-Up. I finished reading 15 books in December, which is a bit higher than my average. That’s partly due to reading a few smaller books over Christmas, but also partly because we’re having renovations done, so I spent most of the month trying to…
My Top 10 Reads of 2025 Hello! Well, it’s that time of year again… time to pick my 10 favourites out of the 152 books I read in 2025! It’s been unusually difficult to do this year. Not because of the amount of books I read in 2025, but because very few of them really…
First Post of 2026: Wrapping Up Blogmas, Christmas Books, and 2025 Goodreads Stats Hello! Welcome to 2026! I hope the new year is treating you kindly thus far. And I hope 2025 didn’t give you one last kick on its way out the door. Here at my house, 2025 said goodbye and good riddance by…