Anthony Bidulka’s Amuse Bouche (2003)

2014-07-11T16:36:47-04:00

Anthony Bidulka’s Amuse Bouche Russell Quant, #1 Insomniac Press, 2003 Things that I like about the first book in Anthony Bidulka’s mystery series: 1. Barbra; 2. Saskatoon; and 3. Russell Quant. 1. Barbra is a four-year-old Standard Schnauzer who’s firmly attached to Anthony Bidulka’s sleuth but also adores sleepovers and

Anthony Bidulka’s Amuse Bouche (2003)2014-07-11T16:36:47-04:00

Canada Reads Indie: Darren Greer

2014-03-10T20:41:42-04:00

Darren Greer’s Still Life with June Cormorant Books Inc, 2003 His phone number is unlisted and he always, always uses a pseudonym; when he rhymes those aliases off, one of them is Darren Greer. So straight off, reading Darren’s Greer’s novel, Still Life with June, readers know that they will

Canada Reads Indie: Darren Greer2014-03-10T20:41:42-04:00

Shyam Selvadurai’s Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (2005)

2023-10-04T15:00:59-04:00

Shyam Selvadurai's Swimming in the Monsoon Sea Tundra Books, 2005 You may have noticed that I'm back to starting the reading weekend with kidlit and young adult novels once more. That, along with some of the other regular features was on holiday for the summer, but last week brought Sherman

Shyam Selvadurai’s Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (2005)2023-10-04T15:00:59-04:00

Clinging to Michael Cunningham

2014-03-09T17:45:29-04:00

Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World Picador (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1990 Michael Cunningham forced my introduction to Virginia Woolf because I desperately wanted to read The Hours and, so, Mrs. Dalloway had to come first. The Hours has been a favourite contemporary novel ever since,

Clinging to Michael Cunningham2014-03-09T17:45:29-04:00

Oh, The Kappa Child: read it!

2014-03-17T16:58:17-04:00

Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child Red Deer Press, 2001 The Kappa Child is definitely the Hiromi Goto novel that I'll be recommending most often, although I'm starting to get the feeling that this author is going to be of the sort that I enjoy so solidly that I end up

Oh, The Kappa Child: read it!2014-03-17T16:58:17-04:00
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