Two books by Molly Peacock

When I was in Fredericton back in May, my friend Tanis MacDonald and I spent much of a happy afternoon wandering the amazing cornucopia of books that is The Owl’s Nest Bookstore. Even though I…

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More Atkinson

I recently reread Kate Atkinsons’ Behind the Scenes at the Museum, some 13 or so years after I read it with a book club. This time, I was motivated by my friend Tanis who moved…

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Bewitched e-Reader

I finally bought an e-Reader — the Kobo, which is Indigo/Chapter (the Canadian answer to Amazon)’s answer to Kindle. Besides acknowledging that it might be really useful on holidays, especially given that we travel with…

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Reading in Paris

Even on holiday, I’m juggling books as so many readers do. In an effort to envigorate my French, I’ve been reading Gwenaëlle Aubry’s moving Personne, a meditation, after her father’s death, on his lifelong struggle…

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Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story

Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story is not only super sad but also both frightening and funny. It occurs in the very near future (“oh, let’s say next Tuesday,” the flyleaf suggests) when our portagonist,…

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