Book Review Detective Aunty by Uzma JalaluddinMystery | Cozy When Kausar Khan’s daughter Sana calls to say she’s been arrested for murder, Kausar packs her bags and heads to Toronto for the first time in twenty years. A widow with a keen eye for observation and sharp intuition skills, Kausar is determined to help her […]
Book Review The Love Haters by Katherine CenterRomance | Fiction | Contemporary If you ask me to recommend a romance, chances are I’ll pass you a Katherine Center novel. Contemporary romance is never a go-to genre for me but Center is the one author whose new releases I will eagerly keep an eye out for.
Book Review All the Perfect Days by Michael ThompsonAdult Fiction | Magical Realism It’s been a long time since I’ve devoured a book in a single sitting, but this magical realism novel was just the read to break that streak! Charlie Knight is a small-town doctor with a plan to escape. He dreams of something
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Book Review The Mother Next Door by Andrea Dunlop and Mike WeberNonfiction | True Crime | Memoir No bond is more sacred than that between a mother and child. And no one is more sympathetic than a mother whose child faces a life-threatening illness. But what if the mother is the cause of the illness?
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Book Review The Queens of Crime by Marie BenedictMystery | Historical Fiction Agatha Christie has long been one of my favourite authors. Her work evokes memories of my teen years, borrowing paperbacks from my mom’s Christie collection and trying to piece together “whodunnit” before Poirot or Miss Marple do. So, when I heard about Marie
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Book Review The Dark Library by Mary Anna EvansMystery | Historical Fiction | Gothic Secrets are rampant in the small town of Bentham-on-Hudson, but perhaps nowhere more so than Estella Ecker’s childhood home, Rockfall House. Returning home and taking up a teaching position at the local college, Estella searches for answers to her mother’s mysterious
Book Review The Resistance Painter by Kath JonathanHistorical Fiction | Dual Timeline Last year, two of my top historical reads for the year just happened to feature the Polish Resistance during WWII. The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt and The Keeper of the Hidden Books by Madeline Martin were both breathtaking and poignant, and opened
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Book Review How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty by Bonny ReichertMemoir | Culinary Do you ever try new books solely based on recommendations from other authors? How to Share an Egg first caught my eye thanks to the endorsement by Ruth Reichl (another culinary author I can’t get
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Book Review Follow Me to Africa by Penny HawHistorical Fiction I’ve absolutely adored Peggy Haw’s past books (The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at the Wheel) and was so excited to see another biographical fiction about an influential, and perhaps lesser-known, historical woman. Follow Me to Africa explores the life of Mary Leakey, a
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Book Review Dinosaurs Lift the Flap by Taffy TalesChildren’s Board Book | Flap Book For the past four years, we’ve had a bit of a dinosaur invasion happening at our house. With a four-year-old who is absolutely obsessed with dinos, the kids’ room is packed with Jurassic toys and reads. So when I saw this
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