Tag: non-fiction

6 Books on Dying in Modern Times

23 August 2016 / brief reviews / 3 Comments

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 […]

Review: Solving the Procastination Puzzle by Timothy A. Pychyl

31 July 2016 / review / 0 Comments
Review: Solving the Procastination Puzzle by Timothy A. Pychyl

Title: Solving the Procrastination Puzzle Author: Timothy A. Pychyl Format/Source: Paperback/Library Published: December 2013 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Length: 107 pages Genre: Non-fiction Why I Read: Solid recommendation from Lifehacker on a practical book for tackling a bad habit Read […]

Review: 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin

20 June 2016 / review / 0 Comments
Review: 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin

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 […]

Brief Thoughts: The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter

6 June 2016 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Brief Thoughts: The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter

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 […]

Brief Thoughts: The Karluk’s Last Voyage by Robert A. Bartlett

9 January 2016 / brief reviews / 2 Comments
Brief Thoughts: The Karluk’s Last Voyage by Robert A. Bartlett

GoodReads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon ★★★½ Call it love of adventure if you will; it seems to me the life that ought to appeal to any man with red blood in his veins, for as long as there […]