adult fiction
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Review: Cadillac Couches by Sophie B. Watson
Review: Cadillac Couches by Sophie B. Watson Source: Paperback, Published September 4, 2012 by Brindle and Glass Publishing Verdict: Excellent Book Description: Cadillac Couches is a picaresque road trip novel that journeys from prairie to big city and back again. A quixotic tale set in the late ’90s and framed by the popular Edmonton Folk Read more
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Review: The Anatomist’s Wife (Lady Darby #1) by Anna Lee Huber
Review: The Anatomist’s Wife (Lady Darby Mystery #1) by Anna Lee Huber Source: Paperback, Published November 6, 2012 by Berkley Trade Verdict: Very Good Book Description: Scotland, 1830. Following the death of her husband, Lady Darby has taken refuge at her sister’s estate, finding solace in her passion for painting. But when her hosts throw Read more
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2014 Reading, So Far: SIGH
I have written a post about the good highlights of my 2014 reading year so far. However, as with any reading year, there are bound to be some stinkers. Okay, maybe ‘stinker’ is too harsh a word, but let’s just say, these titles just fell flat. Some I had high expectations for, which is why Read more
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Summer reading, had me a blast…
“I carried a watermelon” Do you have a particular genre or author(s) you favour over the summer months? I don’t entirely eschew heavier or darker reads over the summer, but I do have a tendency to enjoy comics, contemporary, old favourites, and the funny (…much like I do in the middle of our Canadian winters, Read more
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A little bit of lovely from ‘I Capture the Castle’
Oy. Writer’s/blogger’s block. Having it is not conducive and/or helpful to writing book reviews. In the meantime, I will share a passage or two from Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, which I am currently in the midst of. (And which I am reading for the first time!). There are so many utterly lovely turns Read more
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Review: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Review: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Source: Paperback, Published March 27, 2012 by Plume Verdict: Excellent Book Description: Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless Read more
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Review: Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Review: Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight Source: eBook, Published April 2, 2013 by Harper Verdict: Good/Very Good Book Description: Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: her intelligent, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, has been caught cheating. Kate can’t Read more
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