Category Archives: Books

Where’d you go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple “Where’d you go…” is a well written, funny book with lots of promise. A teenage daughter, Bee, tries to locate her missing, agoraphobic mother, Bernadette, by piecing together scraps of communications that she’s … Continue reading →

Religion for Athiests, Alain de Botton Way back when my niece was being baptised, the minister kindly offered to baptise my son as well, even though we were not members of his church. I politely declined due to my lack … Continue reading →

Life Sentence: Stories from four decades of court reporting — or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian Justice system. (Especially Judges). by Christie Blatchford Christie Blatchford is fired up about the state of the Canadian Justice system, … Continue reading →

I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron For much of this book, I thought Nora Ephron and my friend Chrystal had very similar styles of writing, but in fact Chrystal is much funnier. Judge for yourself. Chrystal: The next … Continue reading →

Good to a Fault, Marina Endicott I have been procrastinating like mad on this post. I think it’s because I accidentally revealed to a mutual friend of the author that I was going to write it, and now I live … Continue reading →

The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher Once in a while a person comes along who you discover too late was awesome and you wish you’d known that during their life. You know, so you could stalk them at a convention or … Continue reading →

Arrows of the Queen, Mercedes Lackey It has been far, FAR too long since I read a fantasy book.  I suspect book clubs are getting in the way. Not many books selected by my fellow book clubees are fantasy books. … Continue reading →

My Life as a White Trash Zombie, by  Diana Rowland You might reasonably be tempted to assume this is a zombie book, but you might also be pleasantly surprised to discover that it is technically a mystery novel. Sure, one of … Continue reading →

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wolff Is Michael Wolff a daring, insightful journalist or a water-cooler gossip? Is Fire and Fury an illuminating exposé of the Trump White House or a trashy retelling of stories we … Continue reading →

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation is a very weird book, but it doesn’t start out that way. It starts out just everyday-weird, like a kind of scifi mystery leading you to mildly wonder what could be causing the unusual things … Continue reading →