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Lawyer by day, voracious reader by night. So many books, so little time!

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Too much of the less interesting Fleishman

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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I’m a big fan of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s celebrity profile pieces for magazines like The New Yorker and GQ- they are smart, insightful and well-written essays that reflect on larger cultural issues as filtered through the lens of a particular celebrity.  Given this history, I had high hopes for her first novel. The plot in Fleishman is straightforward: Toby Fleishman, a specialist physician in Manhattan, is in the process of divorcing his wife, Rachel.  Rachel drops their two kids off at Toby’s rental apartment one morning […]

Inspector Rebus goes to London

Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin

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I’m a big fan of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series.  His novels hit all my detective novel sweet spots- good writing, a good mystery and the location as its own character. This was an old one (published in 1994!) but it fell fortuitously into my hands while I was on a trip to the UK earlier this month. Unlike most of the other Rebus novels I’ve read, Scotland is not the setting for this one- it has Rebus on loan to a London police precinct, […]

The Holiday, but with less romance and more self-empowerment

Swapping Lives by Jane Green

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Vicki Townsend is a 30 something London singleton who works as an editor at Poise!, a popular UK woman’s magazine.  Amber Winslow is a 30 something ‘desperate housewife’ in the posh NYC commuter suburbs who has given up a promising legal career to be a stay at home mom and small town socialite.  Both Vicki and Amber feel like the grass is greener on the other side of the ‘married with children’ divide, and so when Poise! decides to do a feature on just that […]

Lackluster Career Advice

Safe and Effective Practice by Jean Cote

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My home is cluttered with career advice books that I didn’t ask for but which it was strongly implied that I should read.  Because these two were shorter books, I’m pairing them together in a single review: Safe and Effective Practice by Jean Cote: Lawyering is easy says an old white man. Ah, hindsight, that vaunted mountaintop that the experienced get to judge the rest of us from.  Jean Cote was previously a judge on Alberta’s Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province, […]

Stars Hollow meets the detective novel

Still Life by Louise Penny

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Still Life is the first Inspector Gamache novel in Louise Penny’s series, and for me it’s a backtrack- I started with the second novel, Dead Cold (alternate title: A Fatal Grace), back in February.  Still Life introduces us to all the main characters that show up in the later books, including the town of Three Pines and its close-knit community members.  (For such a quaint and friendly town, I get the feeling there are a lot murderers in Three Pines’ midst, if the length of […]

Blessed Be The Fruit of Margaret Atwood’s Mind

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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Oh boy, where to begin. I read The Handmaid’s Tale for the first time two years ago and I was terrified.  I agree with the many think pieces on how the timing was right for a resurgence, what with the creeping anti-abortion laws in the southern States.  Despite this, I always thought that Canada was beyond the American abortion debate but the last two years suggest otherwise: Alberta elected an anti-abortion Premier (Jason Kenny) and the leader of our official Opposition Party (Andrew Scheer) is […]



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