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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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

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Drier than a popcorn fart in the desert

The Science of Leadership by Julian Barling

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If you are looking for some light reading to put you to sleep, or wondering what a dry day in the Sahara would feel like in print form, this book is for you.  Whew, am I parched.  I received this book for free from the author when he presented at a professional women’s event I attended about 4 years ago.  I remember his presentation being largely uneventful- not exciting but no more boring than many other professional talks.  Then, because I was working at a […]

Sleepy short stories

In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers

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In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of Dorothy L. Sayers’ short mystery/ detective stories, a number of which feature her best known detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg, and the rest of which are stand alone tales.  I took a Detective Fiction class way back in college, so I had some name recognition for Sayers, but I couldn’t have told you much about her work.  This novel brought some of that information back to me- Wimsey and Egg are detectives from […]

Civil War Noir

De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage

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Shortlisted for Canada’s biggest literary award, the Giller Prize, I’d heard a lot about DeNiro’s Game, in particular how it was the first novel for its author, Rawi Hage (Lainey Gossip would call him a First Book Bitch).  The novel tells the story of two childhood best friends, Bassam and George, who are living in Beirut in the 1980s civil war.  Written first-person from Bassam’s perspective, we watch the two young men take different paths, and respond in different ways, to the chaos engulfing their […]

In a Galaxy Far Far Away

Burning Chrome by William Gibson

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William Gibson’s Burning Chrome is a collection of 12 science fiction short stories that were written in the late 70s and early 80s and have been published together.  I would almost certainly never have picked up this book on my own- it joined my book collection after being abandoned by an old roommate, who had herself picked it for a college Science Fiction Literature class (which hints at how long this book has been knocking around my apartment).  Despite this not being my usual jam, […]

Hard Knock Life in the Holler

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

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I’ve finally caught up with J.D. Vance’s much discussed bestseller, and I’m glad I did.  Vance’s memoir recounts growing up in Ohio and Kentucky, in a family on the lower rungs of the income and class scale.  He spends a lot of time and colour painting his family’s roots back in Kentucky, and then traces his parents’ move to suburban Ohio in search of a better life.  Despite the physical move, Vance writes that his family retains their ‘hillbilly’ values and are still culturally similar […]

Strike and Robin back on the case

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

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This is the 4th book in the Cormoran Strike detective series written by J.K. Rowling under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, and she is really getting in the groove here.  This outing has Strike and his business partner, Robin, trying to dig up the goods on a supposed blackmailer and also looking into cryptic allegations of a cold case murder.  In diving into these investigations, which share some common threads, we’re introduced to scheming British cabinet ministers, horse-owning aristocrats, labour activists and the odd wiccan shopkeeper, […]



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