I love old fashioned murder mysteries, murder mysteries along the lines of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot or Ms Marple. The Maslow Murder Club is one such novel. Our protagonist is a charming septarian, Judith, Who loves to skinny dip in the river behind her old mansion. On one such excursion, Judith witnesses the murder of … Continue reading The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
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Alone
by Megan E. Freeman Twelve-year-old Maddie is a normal teenager who just wants to do normal things like having a party at her grandmother’s vacant house without her parents knowing. Maddie has it all arranged: she will tell her mother she is staying with her father and tell her father she is staying at her … Continue reading Alone
Escape from Chernobyl by Andy Marino
Escape from Chernobyl is a fictional account of the Chernobyl disaster, a global incident that most young people know nothing about. 16-year-old Yuri Formichev is an intern at the Chernobyl power plant in Pripyat Ukraine on the border of what was then the Soviet Union. Yuri’s dream is to be an engineer at the nuclear … Continue reading Escape from Chernobyl by Andy Marino
The Speed of Falling Objects
by Nancy Richardson Fischer Life hasn’t been easy for Danielle “Danny” Warren. When she was 7, her adventurous father leaves her and her mother to become a famous “Reality Star”. Danny believes her father abandoned her because she suffered a horrible accident and lost her eye, an accident that not only stole her sight but … Continue reading The Speed of Falling Objects
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
I’m a nerd. I love books. I especially love books about books, libraries, and words. I also gravitate towards feminist literature. Lucky for me, The Dictionary of Lost Words is a wonderful combination of both. Our protagonist Esme loves words as well, probably because she spends her childhood under the table in the scriptorium where … Continue reading The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
2021-2022 Book Club Titles
I’m interested to know how other people are running book clubs during Covid. Is Zoom the “go to” platform for most? Or is there some other more intimate way to connect with our book people? In September we had the opportunity to host book club in person for the first time in close to two … Continue reading 2021-2022 Book Club Titles
“Shuggie Bain” a novel by Douglas Stuart
This is a sad, frustrating, yet compassionate story. In this book, is the main villain (I was going to write "antagonist", but villain is more appropriate) is alcohol that seduces and creates monstrous behaviour sympathetic characters. Although Agnes seems to be the main character, this is Shuggie's story. He is our anti-hero. For most of … Continue reading “Shuggie Bain” a novel by Douglas Stuart
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
“…that’s what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle- the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the havens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.” (pg 147). The Pull of the Stars is a novel that takes place over 3 days in a “Maternity/Fever” ward at St. … Continue reading The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
Over the last year, I have been attracted to gothic mysteries and crime novels. Sometimes I google the genres I’m interested in to see what pops up on the screen. So when I typed “mystery gothic crime novels”, Elizabeth Brundage’s novel came up. What I thought would be an easy, quick, pulp fiction read turned … Continue reading All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
Ink And Spine 