During my Christmas holidays, I picked up the novel The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Other than it was a popular title and was made into a movie, I didn’t know much about this book when I started reading it. Described as a psychological thriller, the novel seemed promising at first. We... Continue Reading →
Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer by Antonia Murphy
From time to time, we all imagine abandoning our current lives and completely starting over, unfortunately for most, this remains nothing more than a dream. For author Antonia Murphy and her husband, Peter, changing their lives completely became a priority when their son, Silas, was born with global developmental delay. Murphy, a San Francisco native... Continue Reading →
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
Any blog about the best of the year should include the best of 2015’s Canadian novels. The story concerns a group of dogs left overnight in a Toronto veterinary clinic and given human consciousness in a bet between Apollo and Hermes. The new awareness divides the animals between their old “dog” ways and their new... Continue Reading →
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