Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Book Review: Two Tricksters Find Friendship by Johnny Aitken and Jess Willows (children's book)

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photo by ldyck Two Tricksters Find Friendship is a year in the life of a new mutually supportive friendship between Jessie, a white girl, an...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Book Review: All the Little Monsters by David A. Robertson (memoir)

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builds community and leads the way to healing. I highly recommend this book to all those who want to learn how to live with anxiety. photo b...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Book Review: Poems by Maya Angelou, reviewed by Leanne Dyck

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 I've been doing a lot of reading but not for pleasure. And I've missed it.  I felt the key to returning would be finding something ...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Book Review: Stones by William Bell (YA, mystery)

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  Set in present-day Orillia, Ontario, Stones explores the tragedy surrounding the Oro Township's African Methodist Church through the e...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Book Review: The List of Last Chances by Christina Myers (women's fiction)

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 The List of Last Chances is about the friendship that forms between thirty-eight-year-old Ruth "Ruthie" MacInnes and sixty-eight-...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Book Review: My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee (memoir)

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Geddy Lee is an inviting, engaging and generous author. In My Effin' Life, he writes openly and honestly about his life and his music. I...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Book Review: We Spread by Iain Reid

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What is it like to grow old? What struggles do senior citizens face? Why, how do they (we) keep on living?  We do not all blend together. We...
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Book Review: Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis (sci fi, romance, literary fiction)

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Thirty-one years old and newly transplanted from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Vancouver, BC, Amber Kivinen and Kevin Watkins are in a fourteen-ye...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Book Review: Rouge by Mona Awad (horror)

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"No one knows what's inside grief."  (p. 361)   Born to an Egyptian father and a French-Canadian mother Mirabelle Nour was rai...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Book Review: I Only Read Murders by Ian Ferguson & Will Ferguson (cozy mystery)

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 I Only Read Murder is a cozy mystery set against the backdrop of the staging of a historical murder mystery--Death Is the Dickens, written...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

Book Review: Old Babes in the Woods by Margaret Atwood (story collection)

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 I love reading Margaret Atwood's story collections, so I was thrilled to discover that she had released another one. I purchased the bo...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Ducks: two years in the oil sands by Kate Beaton (graphic novel, memoir)

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 In 2005, like the three hundred ducks stuck in a tailing pond, Canadian lives were being chewed up and spit out in the northern Alberta oil...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Book Review: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr, published by Coach House Books

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  What Esi Eugen did for jazz and the 1940s in Half Blood Blues Suzette Mayr does for train porters and the 1920s in The Sleeping Car Porter...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Book Review: Flipping Forward Twisting Backward by Alma Fullerton, illustrated by Sarah Mensinga (MG graphic novel)

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 Claire Cardin is dedicated, kind-hearted, empathetic, creative, smart, and a problem solver. She excels at gymnastics but she struggles to ...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Book Review: Driven: The Secret Lives of Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio, published by Biblioasis (non-fiction)

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 In 2018 author Marcello Di Cintio 'spent a year traveling around Canada' --west to east; south to north-- 'to seek out the lif...