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…
I’ve been a fan of The Hunger Games franchise since shortly after the second movie came out. After watching the first two movies, I immediately sought out the books to find out what happened next, and I was pleasantly surprised by the intellectual depth and the subtle allegory in Collins’ writing. The original trilogy are some of…
The Shivers is a collection of short stories by some of horror’s greatest contemporary writers: Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Catriona Ward, and Owen King. It will become available on Amazon in ebook and audiobook formats on April 15, but I was granted early access by NetGalley for review consideration. My review: I…