The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry, The Lace Reader, William Morrow, 2006This is a book I wanted to like. As it is, I don't quite know what the point was. Is this a problem of reading the book in fits and starts?...
View ArticleBlacklist, Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky, Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel, Signet Books, 2004. I hadn't read a Paretsky book in a while, and picked this from a pile a book club mate had brought to pass along at our last...
View ArticleBright Seas, Pioneer Spirits: A History of the Sunshine Coast
Betty Keller and Rosella Leslie, Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits: A History of the Sunshine Coast, TouchWood Editions, updated and revised, 2009.I loved reading this book. I've lived on the Sunshine...
View ArticleStill Life: A Mystery
Louise Penny, Still Life: A Mystery, St Martins Minotaur, NY, 2005My sister told me about this writer, and her delightful murder mysteries, some time ago. Not long ago I was at a meeting at a friend's...
View ArticleA Fatal Grace
Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace: A Three Pines Mystery, St Martins Minotaur, NY, 2007There is a character in this book so unlikeable that I actually hoped she'd be the dead character, and not the...
View ArticleThe Goat Lady's Daughter.
Rosella Leslie, The Goat Lady's Daughter, NeWest Press, 2006I've just wondered why this book is not called The Goat Ladies' Daughter, because both Mag & Florrie are mother to Jen, the abandoned...
View ArticleA Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire, Harper Perennial, New York, 2005 natural history of red. Cochineal features hugely. Fascinating, but I...
View ArticleOlympic Games Opening
if there was anything to forgive them, i forgive them everything. well nearly.Shane Koyczank.d. lang & Hallelujahsuch an amazing description of Canada, who we are, what you can expect.thanks for...
View ArticleThe Cruelest Month
Louise Penny - #3 in the series.What can I tell you? Louise Penny is a wonderful story teller, her books are engaging, the characters are believable and human. The main characters - police from the...
View ArticleThe Murder Stone
Louise Penny, #4 in the series. The Murder Stone/A Rule Against MurderShe continues, to engage, to delight, to make me cry, to make me laugh, to bring my own foibles into the light. Could we ask any...
View ArticleThe Brutal Telling
Louise Penny, #5 in the series. I await #6 in the series. And I want it NOW!This novel is difficult because one of the dearer of the characters in the previous 4 books comes under suspicion. Penny...
View ArticleRain Before Morning
Michael Poole, Rain Before Morning, Harbour Publishing: Madeira Park BC, 2006I loved reading Romancing Mary Jane, which i heartily recommend to you. I loved reading this novel - an examination of...
View ArticleUncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001.
View ArticleLittle Flower Academy - Shame!
I graduated from Little Flower Academy in 1964. I'm a lesbian. I was then too, but times were different, including lectures in religion classes about not having any 'special friends.' i was far too...
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