Last year, I managed to read 111 books. It was actually closer to 120 but there were a few I didn’t include on my big list, either for personal reasons (self-help or psychology books), or because I bailed less than halfway through. But I wanted to take a look back at my favourite titles and […]
Tag: fiction
The Long Road to the Pot of Gold
When I came up with the idea to write a book about the Halifax Explosion, back in 2004, I didn’t think it would be a 13-year journey. The bulk of the writing was done in ’04-’05, but just as I was getting ready to send the manuscript out to agents, I took a header on […]
Book Review – The Theoretical Foot
The Theoretical Foot M.F.K. Fisher So when an unpublished book by your favourite writer ever is discovered and published, you’re kind of excited, right? When I finally got my hands on a copy of M.F.K. Fisher’s The Theoretical Foot, I was almost shaking with anticipation. And then… There’s a reason why Fisher’s novel was never […]
Book Review – 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Mona Awad It’s not easy being a fat girl. It’s hard to find clothes, airplane seats and uncomfortable and everybody seems to have an opinion on your girth. Especially yourself. Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is a collection of 13 short stories […]
Book Review – Four Great Books About Strong, Amazing Women
Not by design, my fiction selections recently have all been about strong, amazing women, and have all been written by women. This is the general inclination of my taste in fiction anyway (more Colette, less Hemingway), but there seems to be a general consensus in the mainstream that there just aren’t great stories about strong […]