Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
In Hide and Seek, the second book in the Inspector Rebus series, a young man is discovered dead from an apparent overdose in a shady part of Edinburgh. John Rebus… Read More »Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
In Hide and Seek, the second book in the Inspector Rebus series, a young man is discovered dead from an apparent overdose in a shady part of Edinburgh. John Rebus… Read More »Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
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
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
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
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
The Year of the Flood, the second book in the MaddAddam trilogy, came out 6 years after Oryx and Crake in 2009. It is not a sequel, but rather a… Read More »The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
On 24 September 2013, Margaret Atwood came to Ottawa to present the last book in the MaddAddam Trilogy. The event took place at the Southminster United Church, and the place… Read More »Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian freelance journalist, and Nigel Brennan, an Australian photographer, traveled to Somalia in the summer of 2008 to report on the war raging in this country. What… Read More »A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett
If you love books, you’ll definitely enjoy reading this blog! I’ll write book reviews, talk about literary events I go to, give you fun facts about authors and much more.… Read More »Welcome to my blog!