Author: Antoine Leiris (trans. Sam Taylor) Title: You Will Not Have My Hate Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: October 2016 Publisher: Penguin Press Length: 129 pages Genre: Memoir Why I Read: Read an excerpt Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Book Depository In November 2015, Antoine Leiris’s […]
Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book. Why we […]
This is a topic that has been cropping up in my life in unexpected areas. Physician-assisted suicide has been recently legalized in Canada, I taught about assisted suicide when I completed my ESL practicum last fall, and now I’ve unintentionally […]
Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: November 2015 Publisher: Atria Books Length: 269 pagesGenre: Non-fictionWhy I Read: Intriguing subject matterRead If You: Like stories about people who overcome the impossibleRating: ★★★★Links: GoodReads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon Since reading In the Heart of the […]
This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families […]