Lisa Kallisto is an overworked mother of 3, with a husband who often works nights as a cab driver. In a horrifying moment of not paying attention, Lisa realizes that her best friend’s daughter goes missing under her watch. Wracked with guilt and suffering the critical judgement from others around the community, Lisa attempts to [...]
Review: A Nation Worth Ranting About by Rick Mercer
Host of The Rick Mercer Report on CBC in Canada, A Nation Worth Ranting About is a collection of the famous rants that Rick Mercer does on his TV show. Often political, always succinct, Mercer’s rants are delivered in his signature voice – full of facts, with a dash of sarcasm and dry wit. Interspersed with [...]
Review: The Blondes by Emily Schultz
Hazel has moved to New York City to work on her thesis when she finds out that she’s pregnant with a married man’s baby. The affair with her professor/thesis advisor is made more dire when a string of bizarre attacks start happening worldwide. The strange disease seems to be affecting women with blonde hair and [...]
Recap: The Magic of Saida book launch party
About a month ago, I received an invitation from Doubleday Canada/Random House to attend the book launch party of M.G. Vassanji’s The Magic of Saida (pronounced sigh-ee-dah). After meeting up with Andrea (Cozy Up With a Good Read) first, we headed up to the beautiful Arcadian Loft in downtown Toronto. Being always the punctual ones, we [...]
Review: The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
Everyone knows the story of how the Titanic sank. This is the story of a maid, striving to escape that life and aspiring to be more, finding her way onto the fated ship. Tess manages to get noticed by Lady Duff Gordon – a famous fashion designer, who hires her as a maid but also [...]
Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
I actually finished this book a few weeks ago but haven’t had the chance to write a review on here about it yet. I heard a lot of good things about this book and was really intrigued to read it. It’s quite a hefty book (at 784 pages!) and I was so glad to have had [...]
