This contains spoilers. Read at your own risk. Fall On Your Knees is massive. Ann-Marie MacDonald successfully weaves a multi-generational story of the Piper family on Cape Breton Island wrapped in secrets, love & loss, family values/ the value of family, sins, compassion and redemption. As it sh...
[Warning: this is a long review, but this complex book merits it.]This is a long, thoughtful, and multi-layered novel. It was recommended to me as a good depiction of life growing up on Canadian military bases, as I did. And it is. It centres around 8-year-old Madeleine McCarthy, who's on her f...
This one is actually a play, which I had no idea when I picked it up at the library for the fact that it was a slim little slip of a book that I could carry with me and read. And I did, all in one day. It was fabulous. I loved the forthright female protagonist and the combination of spooky and sc...
T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” WHERE IS JACK? He’s reading his newspaper. Please do not disturb him. He left something back there in 1963. Stepped out of it like stepping from a stream, and the current that had borne him along went on without him, water disappearing round a bend. When you are in i...
Last night she got to the bottom of something she did not know had been bothering her; and that can be better than sleep. She stayed up till three googling postpartum depression, ultimately ordering a book on the subject. Knowledge is power. The more she understands about her mother’s traumatic h...