Hot off the presses, Pagan Kennedy's The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A true crime story should be one of the most talked-about books of the year. Kennedy spent…

⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I haven't  been keeping up with reviews so far in 2025, but also haven't read many books! Both Slow Burn and The Idiot were long reads. Catherine…

It's New Year's Eve and over the past few days of holidays I've read my last few books of 2024. When all is said and done, I wound up reading…

Zoe Whittall in Wild Failure: Stories writes about the struggles of an underclass of queer women in Canada who by and large are invisible to many. Robbed of power and…

I know little about the early years of the American republic and Lindsay Chervinsky's Making the Presidency was an all-new-to-me deep dive on the formative years after the revolution. The…

Mental illness are hardly new ground for literary fiction but Alana Saab's unique voice, empathy and humour made Please Stop Trying to Leave me a moving and affirming journey. Scarred…

Suzie Edge's Vital Organs was a quick and fluffy read that explores body parts literally from tip to toe through the exploration of various famous tales of some of history's most…

While I'm not sure I understood the premise, Under the Eye of the Big Bird was a lyrical contribution to the dystopian canon. Many thousands of years in the future humans…

Huda Mukbil is an Ottawa author who I had the pleasure of meeting very briefly as she was awarded her Ottawa Book Award for Agent of Change. Mukbil's family fled…

Heather O'Neill's The Capital of Dreams has been published against the backdrop of ongoing wars in Ukraine and Palestine and I could not help but read the novel with those…