Author Archives: Risa

Book 1 – The Widow Well, now that the book-per-week is (finally) over, I thought maybe I’d track what I read in a year just as a matter of course. Reading whatever I want, without trying. This is the beginning … Continue reading →

I love reading, and a year ago, I embarked on a challenge to read one book a week for a full year. At that time, I wrote this introductory paragraph: The challenge: to read a book a week for a … Continue reading →

book 51 – Cold Case Vancouver This book is a collection of unsolved murder cases from Vancouver’s past, ranging from the 1940’s to 2005. The case stories provide an interesting look back on Vancouver’s somewhat sordid past, and remind the reader … Continue reading →

book 50 – Beasts of No Nation I’ll get straight to it: I  hated this book. Its the story of a Agu, young boy (age unknown, but perhaps around 8?) who is kidnapped by a warlord in an African country … Continue reading →

book 47/48/49 – Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson Confession: I bought this book years ago, thinking it was “In Search Of Schrodinger’s Cat” by John Gribbin, a book about quantum theory and reality that I keep lending to people … Continue reading →

book 46 – An Illustrated book of Bad Arguments When I was in university I took a course on logic which ended up being about logical arguments. I loved it, but, although I retained a few things (begging the question, … Continue reading →

book 44 – How to Age This might be the most important book I read during this past year. Anne Karpf challenges our way of looking at ageing (and death) as something to be avoided by aggressively pursuing youth and … Continue reading →