Category Archives: Books

Persons Unknown, Susie Steiner Manon, our difficult-to-like, sexually ambivalent detective is back, but this time she is pregnant and has an adopted son. She has also reconnected with her estranged sister and will manage to drift her way into an … Continue reading →

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown Here’s the thing. I am very VERY far behind in the book blog. Therefore, in the spirit of essentialism, I’m just going to write a few very VERY short ones. Essentialism … Continue reading →

Missing, Presumed; Susie Steiner For every damsel-in-distress-falls-for-handsome-detective-white-knight-hero mystery (that I admittedly love) there is a better, grander, unpredictable and more complex mystery novel that needs to be read. Susie Steiner’s novel Missing, Presumed is one of those (and her second … Continue reading →

Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World’s Most Outrageous Scams, by Andreas Schroeder Some history on Andreas Schroder that I picked up from Google: Since 1991, Andreas Schroeder has been a regular on the very popular national CBC-Radio … Continue reading →

The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton One of the most surprising things about this book is not that it was written by a woman, but that she was a teenager at the time she wrote it. It has such amazing insight … Continue reading →

The Perfect Stranger, Megan Miranda Why does it seem that in every story about a single woman embroiled in a mystery, especially if there is an element of personal danger, there is a handsome, unattached police officer with whom she … Continue reading →

Little Brother, Cory Doctorow I’ve heard about Cory Doctorow, but never really knew what he did. Turns out he’s a writer! And a Canadian, and a computer geek and a proponent of free sharing of all digital media. In some … Continue reading →

My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem The last Gloria Steinem book i read was Revolution From Within, at the age of 27, when I thought a was having a crisis of existentialism and aging. Hahahahahhaha!!! [sigh] One thing I’ve … Continue reading →