*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Starlight Author: Richard Wagamese Publisher: McLelland & Stewart Publication Date: August 14, 2018 ISBN: 9780771070846 Synopsis from Goodreads: Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, but his contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with theContinue reading “Book Review: Starlight by Richard Wagamese”
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Book Review: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Author: Holly Ringland Publisher: House of Anansi Publication Date: March 19, 2018 ISBN: 9781460754337 Synopsis from Goodreads: After her family suffers a tragedy when she is nine years old, Alice Hart is forced to leave herContinue reading “Book Review: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”
Review: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Heart Berries Author: Terese Marie Mailhot Publisher: Doubleday Canada Publication Date: March 13, 2018 ISBN: 9780385691147 Synopsis from Goodreads: Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. Having survivedContinue reading “Review: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot”
Review: The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
Title: The Child Finder Author: Rene Denfeld Publisher: Harper Publication Date: September 5, 2017 ISBN: 9780062659071 Synopsis from Goodreads: Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon’s Skookum National Forest. She would be eight years old now—if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someoneContinue reading “Review: The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld”
Review: The Break by Katherena Vermette
Title: The Break Author: Katherena Vermette Publisher: House of Anansi Publication Date: Septemeber 2016 ISBN: 9781487001117 Synopsis from Goodreads: When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls theContinue reading “Review: The Break by Katherena Vermette”
Review: Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito
*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Quicksand Author: Malin Persson Giolito Publisher: Other Press Publication Date: March 7, 2017 ISBN: 9781590518571 Synopsis from Goodreads: A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest suburb. Eighteen-year-old Maja Norberg is charged for her involvement inContinue reading “Review: Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito”
Review: Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Title: Eleanor & Park Author: Rainbow Rowell Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: 2013 ISBN: 9781250012579 Synopsis from Goodreads: Two misfits. One extraordinary love. Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor. Park… He knows she’llContinue reading “Review: Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell”
Review: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
*I received this book from Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Serpent King Author: Jeff Zentner Publisher: Tundra Books Publication Date: March 8, 2016 ISBN: 9781770498839 Synopsis from Goodreads: Dillard Early, Jr., Travis Bohannon and Lydia Blankenship are three friends from different walks of life who have one thing in common: noneContinue reading “Review: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner”
Review: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
*I received my copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: God Help the Child Author: Toni Morrison Publisher: Knopf Publication Date: April 2015 ISBN: 9780307594174 Synopsis from Goodreads: Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a taleContinue reading “Review: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison”
Review: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Title: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Author: Eimear McBride Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada Publication Date: September 2014 ISBN: 9781476789026 Synopsis from Goodreads: Not so much a stream-of-consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerableContinue reading “Review: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing”
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