I miss beautiful ideas. More specifically, I miss reading a book where, interspersed with an intense and riveting story, are beautiful ideas. Ideas about how the world should work, about the human condition. Ideas to make the soul and brain expand. (and no, I am not talking about unfortunate bloating or swelling. Expanding in theContinue reading “I Miss Beautiful Ideas: Thoughts on The Dispossessed”
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What I Read When I Was Young
Do you remember what you read when you were a kid? I have been wracking my brain ever since I read the Jo Walton book, Among Others, and can only come up with a few titles. And I seriously did go to the library every week with a stack of books to return and alwaysContinue reading “What I Read When I Was Young”
Black Friday: A Detective Story (Redux)
In Honour of all those crazy shoppers out there, here is my first attempt (and perhaps my last) at a detective story. I posted this last year, but here it is because, well, because it is just so darn appropriate for today…
Review of 1982 by Jian Ghomeshi
I went to Jian Ghomeshi’s launch of his new book, 1982 in early October. Though it took me a while to warm up to Mister Ghomeshi when his dulcet tones began to waft from the maw of CBC Radio 1, he has since become one of my favourite radio personalities. He is smart, finds amazingContinue reading “Review of 1982 by Jian Ghomeshi”
What I Miss Most
I recently read Jo Walton’s Hugo award winning book, Among Others. Pause. Yes, it was that heady for me, that I need to put a lot of white space between that sentence in the next. Now I have talked about how there are some books that evoke a visceral reaction from me. They happen randomly,Continue reading “What I Miss Most”
A Day in the Life: September Edition
It is that time again, Saturday morning when everybody is still asleep (or in J’s case, gone to work, poor man) and I can think about posting to this blog. I have taken my computer to the little mudroom/summer breakfast nook off our kitchen and am looking out at a grey sky and the canopyContinue reading “A Day in the Life: September Edition”
Why I think All Girls Should Read This Book
One of my favourite young adult writers is Libba Bray, and not only because she has the same initials as me, or because as my husband pointed out, if you squint your eyes her name resembles “library”. She is not afraid to experiment with different genres- indeed her first trilogy was a wonderful 19th centuryContinue reading “Why I think All Girls Should Read This Book”
More YA Dystopian Novels
Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth I have been on a tad of a Dystopian novel kick lately. While reading this last addition to the increasing list of Dystopian YA books, I had an epiphany. No, perhaps that is too strong a word for the small glimmer of light that brightened my brain pan forContinue reading “More YA Dystopian Novels”
YA MUST-READ: A Fault in our Stars by John Green
The Fault in our Stars by John Green Oh, John Green. What can I say? This time the Greenster, the Greenmeister the Greenonator , has penned a tome that deals with such heady topics as love in the midst of death. And when I say ” in the midst” I mean in the chomping downContinue reading “YA MUST-READ: A Fault in our Stars by John Green”
Two Post-Apocalyptic YA Novels
Blood Red Road by Moira Young (Dustlands #1) At the risk of giving away too much at the beginning, I LOVED THIS BOOK! There. I said it. You can leave for the library now. Go put your name on the holds list. No? Want to know why I loved it? Blood Red Road isContinue reading “Two Post-Apocalyptic YA Novels”
Lina Branter 