Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living by Dimitris Xygalatas [NF Review]

2 October 2023 / review / 8 Comments
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living by Dimitris Xygalatas [NF Review]

Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Livingby Dimitris XygalatasSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: Sept. 2022Publisher: Little, Brown Spark (Hachette)Length: 311 pages Genre: Non-fictionTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +14) Summary 💬 Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human culture. It presents a profound paradox: people ascribe the utmost importance to their rituals, but few can explain why they are so important. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society, from […]

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And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott [Fiction Review]

26 September 2023 / review / 6 Comments
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott [Fiction Review]

And Then She Fellby Alicia ElliottSource: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 26 Sept. 2023Publisher: Doubleday Canada (PRH)Length: 368 pages Genre: Contemporary horrorTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +16)Representation: Mohawk, mental illness (esp. psychosis) Summary 💬 On the surface, Alice is exactly where she thinks she should be. She’s just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve—a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture—is nothing but supportive; and they’ve moved […]

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Bit About Books SRC Wrap Up & Reviews [MGLit]

10 September 2023 / review / 11 Comments
Bit About Books SRC Wrap Up & Reviews [MGLit]

Books Read As August has ended, so too has my participation in Bit About Books Summer Reading Challenge. Here are the books I selected for the challenge (checkmark = book read): I ended up not getting to my picks for fantasy & scifi and diveristy & multicultural – which would typically be my most read categories, if you look at my middle grade reading for an entire year! But, almost […]

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“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #22 (Help Me Choose!)

24 August 2023 / can't believe haven't read / 8 Comments
“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #22 (Help Me Choose!)

July’s Result – The Familiars by Stacey Halls I don’t need much to enjoy a story set in the medieval period. The Familiars focuses more on gentry than what I usually read, but with its exploration of women’s medicine and witchcraft, I was content throughout most of the story. I found it a little dry going at times, as the plot is mostly carried forward by Fleetwood riding around and […]

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Nosy Parker by Lesley Crewe [Family Reads]

15 July 2023 / family reads / 2 Comments
Nosy Parker by Lesley Crewe [Family Reads]

Why we chose Lesley Parker’s Nosy Parker Dad’s book discovery process often goes as follows: This was the process followed for discovering Nosy Parker. After he finished reading the book, he suggested I read it as well for Family Reads. The cover made me a little 🤨 but I liked the idea of reading some Canadian historical fiction, so when Dad recommended the story, he buoyed my expectations. The Cover […]

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