- May 17, 2019
Usually when I love a movie it’s because: the movie contains monsters; the movie makes me cry; the movie has robots in it; or the movie is called John Wick. Sometimes, though, I love a movie because it surprises me and confuses me and then I can’t stop thinking about it.
Directed by Boots ...
Read more… - May 8, 2019
The Acadian Kitchen by Alain Bosse (The Kilted Chef)
I lived in a suburb of Montreal when I was a kid. Unsurprisingly, one of the things I remember most vividly about my time there was the food. Poutine, smoked meat sandwiches, and chicken and rib franchises (I’m thinking about you, Swiss Chalet!) are what immediately come ...
Read more… - May 2, 2019
The
Dreamers, by Karen Thompson Walker
In
a small California town, a college freshman complains of feeling sick, falls
asleep… and doesn’t wake up. Soon, there are more cases like hers—otherwise
healthy individuals suddenly overcome by fatigue they can’t shake. Once they
are asleep, nothing can wake them from their slumber. Soon, the mysterious
illness sweeps through the town like the wildfires ...
Read more… - April 26, 2019
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov and how they lived through the horrors of the German concentration camp, Auschwitz. In 1942, the German government, looking for workers for their labor camps, made Slovakian families send someone 18 or older for work details with ...
Read more… - April 4, 2019
Sadie by Courtney Summers
If you’re looking for an audiobook that will get you through a boring car drive, this could be just the ticket. It is performed by a full cast, so the voices are always changing, which helped me stay focused. And the story is quite suspenseful, about a murder and a disappearance ...
Read more… - March 27, 2019
I just put a hold on this wonderful Canadian author’s newest book, Women Talking, after reading about it in The New Yorker. This, her eighth novel, was released in Canada last year and is due out in the U.S. on April 2. As in many of her books, she draws on her Mennonite heritage ...
Read more… - March 22, 2019
If you like graphic novels in the tradition of Maus by Art Spiegelman or Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, you’ll enjoy this graphic memoir by Michael Kupperman, an award-winning writer and artist. I am a big fan of graphic novels; even if you aren’t, you still might enjoy reading this one, for a number ...
Read more… - March 14, 2019
Lovely War by Julie Berry
The title of the Washington Post review of this young adult saga was “The novel you’ll want to steal from your teen’s nightstand.” I think that about sums it up. Julie Berry’s book is a sweeping piece of historical fiction with meticulously researched details about World War I. ...
Read more… - March 8, 2019
Horns by Joe Hill
Imagine waking from a drunken slumber only to find horn nubs sticking out of your head. Ignatius Perrish can imagine it. The main character from Joe Hill’s Horns is thrown into a wild journey from the moment he wakes with horns until the very last pages of the book. What he discovers ...
Read more… - March 1, 2019
The Woman Who Smashed Codes : A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies (2017) by Jason Fagone
Since the publication of Jason
Fagone’s meticulously researched biography, brilliant codebreaker Elizebeth
Smith Friedman (1892 – 1980) has finally received some of the attention she
deserves. Her crucial role in American history, during the years ...
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