an adventure in reading

Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart - Lisa Rogak (audiobook 6h 16 min)  narrated by Cassandra Campbell I enjoyed this bio...

 I've been reading, and listening to a lot of books in the past few months. Here's a few quick reviews of some Canadian books that I...

Torn From Troy: Odyssey of a Slave by Patrick Bowman (5 h 28 min) narrated by Gerald Doyle Neat take on The Odyssey by Homer. I have ...

“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can u...

The topic this week for Top Ten Tuesday hosted at The Broke and the Bookish is Characters You'd like to check in with. ...

  I completely missed Tuesday - so here I am a day late. The sad part is I even had this ready to go ahead of time. Top Ten Tuesday Wha...

These books will be linked together for me for a long time, for no literary reason at all: I read both on the March Break  This March Bre...

 Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish . The topic this week: Books from My Childhood That I Would Love to R...

  March Break! Perfect day being home and able to post for Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish . Of course, I'd ...

Years ago, as a teenager, I read a lot of Agatha Christie (and Ed McBain and Stephen King - the usuals.) I was a huge Poirot fan, with his l...

Cobra by Deon Meyer, 338 pages review copy from Penguin Random House Canada from the publisher: Why would a mathematics professor f...

Walt by Russell Wangersky, 304 pages Great little suspense mystery! I first read Wangersky's short story collection, Whirl Away ,...

  not my house, but my driveway looked similar The weather has been: Did I say it was stormy at the end of last month? I'm sorry ...

The weather has been:  Stormy! We had two storm days last week, which caused disruptions to final exams. Now a Saturday storm, the worst...