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: What is Going to Happen Next by Karen Hofmann

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: What is Going to Happen Next Author: Karen Hofmann Publisher: NeWest Press Publication Date: September 15, 2017 ISBN: 9781988732060 Synopsis from Goodreads: Karen Hofmann’s empathetic and cathartic novel, What is Going to Happen Next, pieces together the lives of five members of theContinue reading “Review: What is Going to Happen Next by Karen Hofmann”

Review: Motherhood by Sheila Heti

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Motherhood Author: Sheila Heti Publisher: Knopf Canada Publication Date: May 1, 2018 ISBN: 9780345810540 Synopsis from Goodreads: After the tumult of her 20s, the narrator of Sheila Heti’s new novel finds herself living a life into which she could bring a child.Continue reading “Review: Motherhood by Sheila Heti”

Review: How to Fall in Love with Anyone

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: How to Fall in Love with Anyone Author: Mandy Len Catron Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: July 2017 ISBN: 9781501137440 Synopsis from Goodreads: In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it meansContinue reading “Review: How to Fall in Love with Anyone”

Review: The Flying Troumans by Miriam Toews

Title: The Flying Troutman Author: Miriam Toews Publisher: Knopf Canada Publication Date: ISBN: 9780307397492 Synopsis from Goodreads: Hattie hears her sister Min has been checked into a psychiatric hospital, and finds herself flying back to Winnipeg to take care of Thebes and Logan, her niece and nephew. Not knowing what else to do, she loads theContinue reading “Review: The Flying Troumans by Miriam Toews”

Review: The Strays by Emily Bitto

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Strays Author: Emily Bitto Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada Publication Date: January 3, 2017 ISBN: 9781455537723 Synopsis from Goodreads: On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. Lily has never experiencedContinue reading “Review: The Strays by Emily Bitto”

Review: Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Here I Am Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada Publication Date: September 6, 2016 ISBN: 9780735232938 Synopsis from Goodreads: How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew andContinue reading “Review: Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer”

Review: The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Night Stages Author: Jane Urquhart Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Publication Date: April 7, 2015 ISBN: 9780771094422 Synopsis from Goodreads: Set mainly in a remote area of County Kerry in the ’40s and ’50s, Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel is at onceContinue reading “Review: The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart”

Review: The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert

*I received a copy from Simon & Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Sunken Cathedral Author: Kate Walbert Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: June 2015 ISBN: 9781476799322 Synopsis from Goodreads: Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to the city, survivors of World War II in Europe. Now widows livingContinue reading “Review: The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert”

Review: Ghosting by Edith Pattou

 *I received this ePUB from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Ghosting Author: Edith Pattou Publisher: Skyscape, an imprint of AmazonPublishing Date Published: August 19, 2014 ISBN: 9781477847749  Synopsis from Goodreads: On a hot summer night in a Midwestern town, a high school teenage prank goes horrifically awry. Alcohol, guns, and a dare. WithinContinue reading “Review: Ghosting by Edith Pattou”