The Christmas season is all about bringing people together and spending time with loved ones, which makes Housekeeping by American author Marilynne Robinson a perfect must-read modern classic for the season. Written in beautiful poetic-prose, Robinson’s novel takes place in the small, isolated town of Fingerbone where two young orphans, Ruth and Lucille, live with their strange, …
Two new books by Muskoka writers have arrived in time for the holiday gift giving season: Paul Feist’s Broken Anchor and Square Wheels by David Bruce Patterson. Both historical, both set in Canada, these funny, tragic, coming-of-age novels offer readers poignant takes on the struggles we all face in striving to do the right thing.
Pride Must Be A Place by Canadian author Kevin Craig is the perfect young adult read to celebrate July, the month of pride. Craig opens a conversation of becoming open-minded and learning tolerance and acceptance toward the LGBTQ group so there can be a place for pride in the community and within oneself. The story …
The Book of Lost Names by US author Kristin Harmel is a powerful and heartbreaking new release about the thousands of people trying to flee to safety during the second world war, and the bravery of freedom fighters who put their own lives at risk to ensure the survival and future of many. This historical …
Continuing our Summer Reads 2020 review series: Tina Brown’s deliciously vain memoir: The Vanity Fair Diaries, 1983-1992. “I just had a drink with Warren Beatty at the Ritz-Carlton” This whirlwind of a book is gossipy, glib, showy, and loads of fun. It’s like stepping into the excesses of the ’80s for the first time—or, if you …
With place names like Peterborough and Fenlon, we could mistake this tight summer read as a Canadian cottage-country tale. It’s not. Author Eva Dolan is an Essex-based writer whose crime fiction follows two detectives working the UK’s Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit. Still, what makes After You Die a prospect for an afternoon read on a …