Kaveh Akbar is a poet and this was some of the most enjoyable I've read all year. There was lots here for someone who's been in the recovery rooms, anyone…

Like everything I've read and loved by Katherena Vermette, real ones is a rewarding story that delves into the lives of Métis women and their complicated relationships with each other, with…

I may yet go back and give Chop, Fry, Wath, Learn a 5/5. The writing lacked a certain sparkle, but this book by Michelle T. King otherwise incorporates much of…

Liza Mundy's Code Girls was a rollick through the WWII-era American military industrial complex's recruitment of predominantly young educated women from women's colleges to work on code-breaking. Following one cohort…

Caroline Adderson's A Way to be Happy was a bit of a dreamy read. The characters were a motley crew of men and women on the margins struggling with loss and…

Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life As a Feminist Punk could have been a crushing work of trauma porn but her humour and intelligence - with a smattering of "hey, I…

Books about billionaires feathering their climate change nests are a thing: this is the third or fourth I've read in the last year exploring the trope. Gabrielle Korn's Yours For…

Covid knocked me a little on my ass this week although it was mercifully brief. As an upside, it gave me a little time to get some good reading done.…