Category Archives: Books

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card is not a very nice man, in the nicest way of putting it, or is a raging homophobe and racist, in the less nice but more accurate way of putting it. After having read … Continue reading →

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett A group of oppressed black maids join forces with a quirky, ostracized white woman in Mississippi to write a tell-all book about the families for whom they work. [Before I go further, in this post … Continue reading →

When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi Paul Kalanithi was on his way to becoming a neurosurgeon when he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in his last year of residency, at the age of 36. The book was written after his diagnosis, … Continue reading →

Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer I read this book before reading What The Psychic told the Pilgrim and it may be partly why my judgement of Pilgrim was so harsh, because Into Thin Air is a breathtaking book of the … Continue reading →

What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim, Jane Christmas I thought I was going to dislike this book simply because the author, Jane, visits a psychic before embarking on a pilgrimage across the Camino do Santiago de Compostela in order to … Continue reading →

The Likeness, Tana French Tana French writes with such intensity, this is one of those rare books that is hard for me to separate from. Her characters are so present in their world, and with each other, that inanimate things … Continue reading →

Passion on the Vine, by Sergio Esposito This is a book about wine and food. And then some. And then some more. There can be little doubt that Esposito is a very good writer. He also loves wine and food … Continue reading →

Uglies is the first book of a trilogy (later expanded to 4 books) that takes place in a dystopian (yay!) world where teenagers grow up in Ugly-town until they are 16, at which time they are moved across the river … Continue reading →

aka Reliving my favourite Daily Show moments There is no real reason to buy this book unless you LOVED watching Jon Stewart host The Daily Show (I did). It is a chronological collection of anecdotes in the form of short … Continue reading →