I didn’t realize I read the second in this series until I started writing this review. I might be.. dim. I picked this up at the library to share with my son, because I have been consciously trying to give him more female superhero characters to read about, and those are a little thin on the ground. I last really knew about Wonder Woman from the 1980s cartoon, but did know that the invisible jet is a thing of the past. It was interesting to […]
This book is great, and you can too!
This is my quarter Cannonball – I have reached my goal by mid-year. Dare I now try and complete a half Cannonball, after the failure of 2014? My quarter is going to end on a high note – the remarkable Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. This has of course been reviewed to death already this year, so what more can I add? For those few people who are not aware, this book centres on the survivors of a world wide flu epidemic, which […]
Not a cologne, not a songwriter
When trying to find this book on amazon.com to provide the review link, it was remarkably hard. Amazon.com wants me to buy cologne, to buy sheet music, ANYTHING. The first book example I could find was in French. This book won the 2010 Governor’s General Award, surely it couldn’t be that obscure? Poor Can Lit, still neglected by the rest of the world. Cool Water is set in a fictional Saskatchewan farming community, and takes place over the course of about a day. In the […]
Preteen angst, extra special snowflake edition.
I have been reading an awful lot of YA fiction lately – partly out of interest, and partly out of reading to my son. I figure I better read to him while he is willing to listen, and Santa brought him the Percy Jackson box set for Christmas. I have recently lost him at story time to his father and Harry Potter, and I confess I am tempted to read ahead and see where the book series goes. I can only be patient for so […]