What this Muskoka Woman is Reading this Summer
Kaitlyn Sutey loves books, especially when read on a dock, on a lake, in a Canadian paradise called Muskoka. Here’s what she’s reading here this summer. Tag along, it’ll be fun reading together.
summer reads
Pride Must Be A Place, A Summer Read
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 …
Summer Reads: First Grave on the Right, A Book Review
First Grave on the Right by American author Darynda Jones is a fiery mix of sass, supernatural, and spicy romance. This adult novel has all the right ingredients for a light and easy read for the summer months that promises to be a wild ride right from page one. In Jones’ novel, the Grim Reaper …
Summer Reads: Daughter of the Burning City, A Book Review
The YA novel Daughter of the Burning City by American author Amanda Foody, brings to life all the joys and wonders of summer carnivals and reminds readers why they make for such fascinating tales. Set in a travelling carnival called Gomorrah Festival, sixteen-year-old Sorina is the sole illusion worker to exist in hundreds of years. …
Summer Reads: Sadie, A Book Review
Sadie by Canadian author Courtney Summers is a gutsy and terrifying young-adult thriller guaranteed to keep readers tethered to the story from start to finish. Summers offers a fresh style of prose + podcast, showing two sides of the same story that will leave readers breathless for more. The story Sadie is narrated by two …
Summer Reads: Safe Harbour, A Book Review
Continuing with MuskokaStyle’s Summer Reads, Safe Harbour is a young adult novel by Muskoka writer Christina Kilbourne. It’s fiction that leads you down a path of false safety, a path on which easy solutions become a lot more complicated. The novel begins with Harbour, a 14-year-old girl who finds herself living in a tent in …
Where to Buy Books in Muskoka
Running low on books to read? We know just where to go. Our favourite indie bookstore in Bracebridge is offering online browsing of its extensive used book collection. The Owl Pen Book Shop his hitting Instagram hard this week with hundreds of photos of its shelves, also known as #shelfies. “We took pictures of some of …
Summer Reads: The Vanity Fair Diaries
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 …
Summer Reads: The Girls of Pearl Harbor
Summer reads aren’t restricted to summer. Staying close to home, curling up on the coach, taking some downtime with a good book are all worthy endeavours in springtime, too. With help from Goodreads, NetGalley, blurbs from book launches, and our own reading time here at MuskokaStyle, we’re putting together previews of upcoming “summer reads” for …
Beachread: In a Dark, Dark Wood
The word hen is all it took. The English mot for bridal shower led author Ruth Ward to devise a twisted “hen party plot” for her first suspense novel, In a Dark, Dark Wood. Set in an eerie glass house in the midst of a secluded English forest, this 2017 beach read will keep you biting your nails to the bitter …