The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Awards, drew my attention because I usually enjoy historical fiction, and I have always… Read More »The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
… shot his wife in the head while playing a drunken game of William Tell at a party? She died instantly. He never went to prison for the crime, as… Read More »Did you know that William Burroughs…
“Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy – in a jar on my desk!” –… Read More »Stephen King Quotation
The books I have gone through lately have dealt with serious stuff, so I needed something lighter to read for the holidays. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding… Read More »Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Last week, the Nobel Prize website released a video of an interview with Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Being 82 years old, she was too… Read More »Alice Munro’s Nobel Lecture
I arrived an hour early at Southminster United Church in Ottawa on Tuesday 24 September 2013. Already there was a line for the event One on One with Margaret Atwood.… Read More »MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Because I am book obsessed, my Black Friday purchases weren’t clothes or shoes or jewelry… but books, books and more books! Look at these beautiful works of art! Notice the… Read More »My Black Friday Purchases…
Ian Rankin was in Ottawa on Saturday 30 November 2013 to talk about his new book, Saints of the Shadow Bible. Earlier that day, he was having a drink in… Read More »Knots & Crosses by Ian Rankin
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” – Mark Twain