Quite often I read books about how people lived generations before I was born, especially in a diary or memoir … More
Tag: memoir
Sheila Watt-Cloutier in Conversation with CBC Radio’s Cathy Alex
On March 1st, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, whose book, The Right To Be Cold, is on the Canada Reads 2017 Shortlist, was … More
Interview with Karen Connelly
Karen Connelly is the author of 10 books of bestselling non-fiction, fiction and poetry. She has won the Pat Lowther … More
Interview with Meghan O’Rourke
Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the memoir The Long Goodbye and the poetry collections Halflife and Once. Her essays, … More
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
This book was hugely popular when it first came out in 2005 and continues to be seven years later. I’d … More
Stitches by David Small
Highly recommended! If you haven’t read a graphic novel before, make this your first! This memoir is AMAZING. It is … More
A Widow’s Walk
As we are nearing the ninth anniversary of September 11 this year, perhaps it is time to remember what happened all those … More
