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Michelle Obama is my hero

Becoming by Michelle Obama

September 3, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I have loved Michelle Obama for years and Becoming just scratched this itch. This woman! Hard working, humble, gracious, driven, smart, caring and full of so much integrity. She almost makes me want to be American (and then I remember the health care issues and hug my Canadian passport like a security blanket). Had Hillary Clinton won the last election I might have read Obama’s memoir in a different light- inspiring yes, but in a world where inspiring things were still relatively common. Since the […]

Over the edge for yonks (in the best possible way)

The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson

August 23, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I’m about to date myself with some very specific references: when I was a kid, my parents clipped their favourite Far Side cartoons out of the Sunday newspaper and scotch-taped them to the wall next to the rotary phone. Because my Dad is a farmer of mostly cattle, he shared Gary Larson’s love of all things bovine, so there was no shortage of Far Sides to ponder while tethered to the phone line. I recently happened on the complete three volume Far Side set in […]

The things we do in the shadows

Blindness by Jose Saramago

August 22, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Do you like bleak dystopian novels full of bad things happening to humanity in general and certain characters (usually women) in particular? Is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road your jam? Then this book might be right up your alley. Set in the present day, we watch as characters named only by descriptors (the doctor, the doctor’s wife, the girl with the dark glasses, the boy with the squint, etc.) are struck down by epidemic of ‘white blindness’. We start with patient zero, a man who suddenly […]

In the summertime when the weather is hot

Summer by the Sea by Susan Wiggs

August 13, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Rosa Capoletti is a born and raised coastal New Englander, running a high-end Italian restaurant on the beach. Her childhood friend and first boyfriend, Alex Montgomery, is back in town to clean up his family’s summer home after his mother passes away. When Alex happens into Rosa’s restaurant for dinner, sparks fly! Will they rekindle the passion that has been simmering since Alex ghosted Rosa 10 years ago? Will Rosa’s father ever forgive Alex for breaking his daughter’s heart? How did Alex’s mother’s really die? […]

A pair of DNFs

I Like it Like That / The World According to Monsanto by Claire Calman / Marie-Monique Robin

August 12, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I’m pairing these two lackluster books here because although very different (a paperback romance and a non-fiction expose), they were alike in 1) that they’ve been in my TBR for years; 2) I finally started to read them; and 3) I did not finish either. I’m usually a fairly strict book finisher, even if it’s a hate-read (Faulkner, I’m looking at you). With these two, I realized that my hate-finish policy was not assisting me- my TBR pile is too big to read books I’m […]

The issue has always been land

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

August 9, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Thomas King is a dual American-Canadian citizen of mixed heritage (Wikipedia lists Cherokee, German and Greek backgrounds), and he identifies strongly with his Cherokee heritage. He is also quite the storyteller, in the best possible way. King starts his “account” of North American history by refusing to label it as a history- noting, in fact that all histories are “stories we tell about the past”. He provides a sweeping overview of Indian-White relations in the US and Canada, in more or less chronological (though expressly […]

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