The last two books that I read were wonderful, heartfelt and inspirational. Here are some tidbits to encourage you to pick them up:
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist is the second autobiography by Michael J. Fox. In this instalment, Fox talks about living with Parkinson’s, and explains how he has managed to [...]
In accordance with my not-so-secret-plot to make everyone realize how fabulous poetry is, I have another poetry recommendation!
The Secret Signature of Things by Eve Joseph is absolutely stunning. To describe it in one word, I would pick beautiful. Eve Joseph takes simple images or moments and finds the subtle force within them.
Now I [...]
Over the past year, I’ve made a number of small changes that have started to improve my quality of life. I have decided to use this summer to make some bigger health changes.
1. Operation Meditation: I decided to start meditating recently because I was told that it would have dramatic positive effects on my [...]
I’m sure that most have you have heard of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, due to the huge amount of hype that surrounded it when it came out.
Despite all the chatter, I didn’t really feel that I wanted to read this book. The main issue what that I don’t normally read autobiographical or [...]
The other day I finished reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. If you haven’t read this book, you need to. It really is that simple. It was absolutely wonderful. The only bad thing about it was that I ended up reading late into the night when I meant to sleeping!
The [...]
As eager as I am to get back to resting, I HAVE to post about this book that I finished a few days ago. I heard about Fall by Colin McAdam when it was shortlisted for this year’s Giller Prize, and happened to come across it in the library earlier this week. I read the [...]
Can’t decide what to read? Alice Munro is always a safe bet. She is an incredible Canadian writer who writes exclusively in short fiction. She has won almost every award available for literature, some of them more than once (and all of them deserved!).
Alice Munro creates dynamic and complex characters and examines their struggles [...]
A lot of people are intimidated by poetry, but what most of these people fail to realize is that the vast majority of contemporary poetry is very reader friendly. You don’t have to read Renaissance sonnets or T.S. Elliot to enjoy poetry.
Along this line of thinking, I wanted to recommend to you my favourite [...]
So today on twitter, Randomhouse tweeted (is that the correct lingo?) about an interesting list posted in Book Magazine. This magazine brought together a group of authors, actors, literary agents and editors, and had them create a list of the 100 best characters in fiction since 1900.
So here it is for your perusal:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0932846.html
Not sure [...]
I am really excited to start this part of my blog! I read A LOT of books, and so now I’m going to start recommending some to you!
My first recommendation is a collection of short stories Canadian author Deborah Willis. I had some early schooling that exposed me to the worst short stories known [...]
