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Three from Biblioasis: Lisa Alward, Catherine Leroux, and Jason Guriel
The following three books include a short story collection, a novel translated from French, and a novel in verse. Biblioasis books continue to delight me! Cocktail by Lisa Alward (short stories) It’s...
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Highlights of 2023
As always, the best thing about book blogging is the bookish community, online and in ‘real’ life. I have loved getting to know so many passionate readers and bloggers and writers and reviewers and...
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Lost & Found in Lunenburg by Jane Doucet
Jane Doucet has become one of my favourite rom-com writers. Her books are light and funny with a spot of romance. Romance is not the focus of the novels, however – women are the focus. Women of all...
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Two from Corona\Samizdat: Lee D. Thompson and W.D. Clarke
A couple of years ago, I read my first book by this small, non-profit independent publisher across the Atlantic. It was called Unidentified Man at Left of Photo by Jeff Bursey and it was a unique...
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Two from Radiant Press: Steven Mayoff and Meghan Greeley write about love,...
The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief by Steven Mayoff Samson Grief is an artist who has been living a quiet, solitary life in Prince Edward Island for almost twenty years when he is visited by...
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#LiteraryWives: Mrs. March by Virginia Feito
Literary Wives is an on-line book group that examines the meaning and role of wife in different books. Four times a year, we post and discuss a book with this question in mind: What does this book say...
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From the Library: a runaway mother, a returned daughter, and secret short...
The Way I Feel by Susan White (Acorn Press) The Way I Feel is Susan White’s thirteenth book (8 YA and 5 adult), and this is the first one I’ve read. The premise of The Way I Feel is what made me pick...
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Grey Dog by Elliott Gish (ECW Press)
Since Florrie’s leave-taking, there is no one with whom I may share my real feelings, no place in my life for candour and misery, save between the covers of this black book. My truth shall remain...
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#ReadingKilmeny: A “Kilmeny of the Orchard” Readalong
Sarah and I have been re-reading some of L.M. Montgomery’s novels. We have re-read The Blue Castle, the Emily books, Jane of Lantern Hill, The Story Girl, and The Golden Road. This May we are going to...
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Freehand Books: Emily Saso and Catherine Cooper
Lásko by Catherine Cooper Lásko (which means “love” in Czech) is a story that surprised me and took me to places I wasn’t expecting. When Maja was seven, her mother disappeared. Now that Maja is...
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