Category Archives: Books

The Culture Map, Erin Meyer The Culture Map is a non-fiction book that attempts to explain cultural differences between societies (mostly countries) based on 8 separate measures. Meyer convincingly argues that every society falls somewhere on a continuum and how … Continue reading →

The Curve of Time, by M. Wylie Blanchet After her husband passed away, “Capi” Blanchet packed her 5 young children up onto their 25 foot motor boat and embarked on a series of travels in and around the inside passage of western British … Continue reading →

Last year my goal was to read a book a week, and made it to 49 or 51 (depending on how you count). You can read about it here. This year I decided to read at my leisure and see where … Continue reading →

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett This is my second time reading Good Omens and it’s just as good as the first. I decided to re-read it because some actual genius decided to make a TV mini-series and cast David Tennant … Continue reading →

Monkey Beach, by Eden Robinson Monkey Beach tells the story of a girl growing up in the small First Nations community of Kitimaat on the west coast of British Columbia. The story is told in a series of flashbacks while … Continue reading →

All The Missing Girls, by Megan Miranda All the missing girls is yet another book in the genre of “girls gone crazy” which has been sweeping the bookstores lately (think Gone Girl, Girl on a Train, Perfect Stranger – by … Continue reading →

The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H.G. Wells This is a weird and creepy book that most people have probably heard of, but probably not read. The story is straightforward enough (spoilers….): A man gets shipwrecked and ends up on … Continue reading →

The Girls, Emma Cline There was a hearty debate about this book in my BBCE book club. Oddly enough, one of the topics at issue was when it becomes disingenuous to claim that a book is based entirely on fictional characters … Continue reading →

The Travelers, Chris Pavone An entertaining “summer read” pseudo-spy-novel. A veteran news reporting becomes entangled in the world of espionage, being directed on missions by his ‘handler’ until eventually you have no idea who to trust. There are some weak … Continue reading →