40 days ago by Shonna

Finished January 2 The Long March Home by Zoe S Roy This book follows Meihua, a young mother in China and her daughter Yezi. Meihua is the daughter of an American missionary woman and a Chinese man. She was born in the United States, but came to China to try to find her father. Instead she met and m ...

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40 days ago by Fictionophile

Brad Smith’s latest thriller “ Red means run” set in rural upstate New York, exhibits good, sound story-telling and introduces a new and compelling protagonist. The title is from a lyric by Neil Young’s “ Powderfinger”. The subtitle, ‘a Virgil Cain mystery’ ensured that every time I picked up the no ...

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40 days ago by belocchio

Three boys come of age on a three week ocean voyage in Michael Ondaatje’s novel THE CAT’S TABLE. The days leading up to Christmas were spent thinking of fat turkeys roasting golden brown, tissue paper and string, food gifts of salted caramels and spicy nuts a Christmas tree filling our home with pin ...

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41 days ago by Shonna

Finished January 1 Every Time We Say Goodbye by Jamie Zeppa This is a novel about the Turner family, based in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. The novel is told in several voices. We have Grace, who was disconnected from life after her mother died. Grace who had a baby without a husband. While her brother ...

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45 days ago by Shonna

Finished December 28 Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers This novel follows a young girl, Laure, from the Saltpêtrière Hospital in Paris, a orphanage, school and poorhouse, to the early town of Ville-Marie in New France. Laure was taken to the Saltpêtrière when she was very young, grabbed from ...

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48 days ago by Shonna

Finished December 24 The Better Mother by Jen Sookfong Lee A wonderful novel, moving between years. The main character is Danny Lim. Danny grew up in Vancouver's Chinatown, but left as soon as he became 18, not wanting the life his parents envisioned for him. Danny is struggling to come to terms wit ...

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50 days ago by Shonna

Finished December 23 A Killer's Christmas in Wales by Elizabeth J. Duncan A nice cozy mystery. The main character, Penny Brannigan is a Canadian who has lived in a small town in Wales for decades. She recently inherited a cottage that she is almost finished renovating. She is also almost finished re ...

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60 days ago by brasskeys

Annabel by Kathleen Winter A hermaphrodite born and raised in Labrador, Newfoundland. Gotta love Canadian Fiction. Various covers:

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60 days ago by Good Book Psychic

The Guilty Plea by Robert Rotenberg Following on the success of his debut Old City Hall, Toronto criminal lawyer and novelist Robert Rotenberg uses his inside knowledge to bring us a Toronto legal scene as exciting as anything on Law and Order. On the eve of his tabloid-fodder divorce trial, grocery ...

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67 days ago by Shonna

Finished December 4 The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay I loved this book! It is interesting how McKay can take a tiny bit of history and create a novel. In this case, she had been fascinated since she was a child of a photo of her great-great-grandmother, a doctor. When she began research to find out abou ...

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