IF you haven’t read Shakespeare’s The Tempest you should become acquainted with the story in order to really appreciate the genius of this take on it. And really what more can I say but this vintage Atwood – hysterically funny, intelligent, filled with dastardly deeds and brewing with characters that you will love to hate […]
[Continue reading...]The Fortunate Brother by Donna Morrissey
January 3, 2017 by
She is one of my favourite authors from NewFoundland. This is the third novel about the Now family (Sylvanus Now and What They Wanted) focusses on Kyle, the youngest surviving brother. Three years after the death of his brother Chris, Kyle is still raw with gried as are his parents. The book explores the insularity […]
[Continue reading...]The Stranger by David Bergen
January 3, 2017 by
Iso, a young guatemalan woman works at a fertility clinic in the highland of Guatamala which caters to rich women who hope that the waters of the nearby lake will help their chances of conceiving. Iso becomes pregnant by the clinic’s doctor who is gone before she can tell him. The daughter is taken from […]
[Continue reading...]The Best Kind of People by Zoe Wittal
January 3, 2017 by
George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father is arrested for sexual impropriety at the prep school where he works. The story is about his wife, Joan, his daughter, Sadie, and his son, Andrew and how they cope and come to terms with this life shattering event. Is he guilty? How do you […]
[Continue reading...]The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
January 3, 2017 by
Beatrice Dunn turns up at the Tea and Sympathy shop run by Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St. Clair and so begins the story of these three witches and how they change each others’ lives and the lives around them. With all the magic of the Virgin Cure, Ami McKay once again brings us into a […]
[Continue reading...]The Wonder by Emma Donaghue
January 3, 2017 by
An English nurse accepts a curious job in Ireland. She is to watch over a young girl for two weeks to make sure she doesn’t eat. Why? Because her family claims that she is subsisting on the Holy Spirit and that she hasn’t eaten in 3 months. The English nurse is to work with an […]
[Continue reading...]The Guineveres by Sarah Domet
January 3, 2017 by
The four Guineveres (Vere, Gwen, Ginny and Win) meet at the Sisters of the Supreme Adoration convent – dropped off by the parents for a variety of reasons, they form a friendship that is everything to them. Domet weaves their past with their present as the four girls dream of a future that frees them […]
[Continue reading...]A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
January 3, 2017 by
An aristocrat is under house arrest in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. This is the story of the Count who reinvents himself in a Russia that has dumped him. It is heartwarming, funny and, in spite of the fact that nothing much happens, a fast paced read. The count is absolutely delightful!
[Continue reading...]Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
January 3, 2017 by
A great cast of characters whose lives intersect as the result of an affair, a divorce, a remarriage, a divorce and so it goes. She writes compellingly of how our choices become our lives.
[Continue reading...]Happy Family by Tracy Barone
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Soooo suspensful – from the opening pages we learn that something dreadful happened at Tiffany and Vid’s barbeque to which Erika and Oliver were invited and who, at the last minute, invited their friends Sam and Clementine. Sam and Erika are the oldest of friends but maybe not? What the heck happened in Tiffany and […]
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