Every so often we stumble across a book that offers total escapism. Jamie Catt Callan’s Ooh La La! French Women’s Secrets to Feeling Beautiful Every Day offers exactly that experience. At less than two hundred…
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Canadian Book On Office Politics Makes Fun of The Mundane
I don’t usually post two book reviews in a row, but I enjoyed this book so much, I wanted to share. When I started reading I Hope This Finds You Well by Calgary author Natalie…
Dolly Alderton’s Good Material Was Just What I Needed
Good Material by Dolly Alderton was exactly the right book at the right time. Having just finished reading The Women by Kristin Hannah about the war in Vietnam, I needed something light, contemporary, and with a…
Canadian Author Shares Her Family’s Fascinating Story
It’s not often I get the opportunity to review a book written by someone I know (a friend of a friend) so I’m delighted to introduce you to Tropical Rose, a book by Debbie Sands from…
Shame On Me. I Misread Alice Munro
The recent passing of Alice Munro, the respected and famous Canadian writer who won a Nobel Prize for Literature has created a rush on her books at the library and bookstores across the country. As…
Jann Arden Shares Her Mother’s Journey With Alzheimer’s
There probably isn’t a baby boomer out there whose life has not been touched in some way at some time by someone with age-related dementia or Alzheimer’s. One of my former roommates has already passed…