Review: Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes Synopsis In this sci-fi horror, a woman involved in a political scandal takes a solitary job aboard a space barge full of cryogenically frozen bodies, thinking it will be the perfect place to hide from the public for a while. Unfortunately, someone or something else already seems to be…
Review: The Magician’s Daughter by Katy Grabel Synopsis A memoir of Katy Grabel’s coming-of-age behind the scenes of her father’s traveling magic show in the 1970s. My Review I think the word that best describes this memoir is “charming.” It’s a sweet and wholesome story of 14-year-old Katy’s experiences on the road with her family’s…
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…