On the Ground: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent by Brian Stewart: REVIEW Synopsis Brian Stewart talks about his experiences as a foreign correspondent for CBC and NBC from the 1970s to early 2000s. My Review I’ve seen Brian Stewart’s face on my TV my whole life, coming from an avid CBC-watching household, so I…
A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi: REVIEW Synopsis Kinga’s just a girl trying to make it through the week, but it just so happens that a different Kinga alter wakes up every morning. As each Kinga leaves a diary entry of her day for the other Kingas to read, it becomes apparent that at…
The Giller Prize Shortlist – My Thoughts The Giller Prize Hi everyone! The Giller Prize shortlist came out today, and I feel like talking about it. In case you aren’t familiar with the Giller Prize, or The Artist Formerly Known As the Scotiabank Giller Prize (more on that in a sec), it’s the most prestigious…
6:40 to Montreal by Eva Jurczyk: REVIEW Synopsis Agatha is an author dealing with depression-induced writer’s block, so her husband comes up with a seemingly perfect solution to get her juices flowing again: he gives her a train ticket from Toronto to Montreal. Six hours on a train with stunning views to inspire her and…
Iceland: The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir (from Diplomatica’s ‘Great Reads from Around the World’) Great Reads from Around the World I’m slowly making my way through the Great Reads from Around the World list on DiplomaticaGlobal.com, a list curated by each country’s embassy in Washington, D.C. Basically, each embassy was asked what books they…
Isola by Allegra Goodman: REVIEW Synopsis A novelization of the true story of Marguerite de La Rocque, a 16th-century French noblewoman who was marooned on an island for her “sins” after her guardian forced her to accompany him to North America. My Review Okay, I get the hype now. This book is gorgeous, captivating, and…
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey: REVIEW Synopsis This is a difficult book to summarize without spoiling anything, so I’ll let the Goodreads summary do the talking: “After a very different outcome to WWII than the one history recorded, 1979 England is a country ruled by a government whose aims have sinister underpinnings and…