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Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: August 5, 2018

The Dictionary of Animal Languages, by Heidi Sopinka

Over the course of Heidi Sopinka’s The Dictionary of Animal Languages, several characters ask Ivory Frame […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Mystery Posted on: March 15, 2018March 15, 2018

The Forgotten Ones, by Steena Holmes

I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book about digging up family skeletons in […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: March 5, 2018March 2, 2018

The Very Marrow of Our Bones, by Christine Higdon

After Lulu’s mother goes missing at the start of The Very Marrow of Our Bones, by […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: January 29, 2018January 27, 2018

Dogs at the Perimeter, by Madeleine Thien

Janie is haunted. Her memories of family members she lost during the reign of the […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: October 31, 2017October 30, 2017

The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill

Several critics have written blurbs comparing The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill, to Erin Morgenstern’s The […]

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Book Review Posted on: November 30, 2016May 3, 2017

Mãn, by Kim Thúy

There are some writers who make me think of the way painters work more than anything […]

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Book Review / Mystery Posted on: October 6, 2016

The Unquiet Dead, by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty are two Toronto police officers who have the unenviable job […]

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Book Review / Literary Fiction / Metafiction Posted on: September 9, 2016July 13, 2024

Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood

One of the joys of reading the Hogarth Shakespeare series is seeing how different authors […]

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Book Review / Mystery Posted on: August 13, 2016August 13, 2016

The Conjoined, by Jen Sookfong Lee

Coming to terms with a parent’s death is difficult enough, but Jen Sookfong Lee threw […]

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Book Review / Science Fiction / Thriller / Western Posted on: June 5, 2016

The Wolf Road, by Beth Lewis

Elka has always done better in the woods, on her own, than in the middle […]

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