The unconventional approach to describing the legal battle, the juxtaposition of satirical characters against the cutting realism of the setting – this will definitely be a favourite book of 2021.
Category Archives: Book Review
Review of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins
My tangling together of value and production, identity and respect paralleled a similar phenomenon in Canadian literature as a whole. Refuse has shown me what lurks behind the façade of my dream job.
Review: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth mixes genres with glee. Its title character, a teenage girl trapped in indentured servitude on a dreary planet called the Ninth, is desperate to join the army (here called the “Cohort”). Harrow, her employer and the de facto ruler of the Ninth, is desperate to keep Gideon at her side, apparently out of sheer vindictiveness.
Review: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Originally posted in 2021. Since then some of Woolf’s writing (a 1915 diary entry in particular) has been widely criticized as ableist. As impressive as Woolf’s prose may be, I do not agree with her opinions on illness and do not support the killing or incarceration of people judged to be “ineffective” or intellectually disabled.Continue reading “Review: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf”
Review: The Centaur’s Wife by Amanda Leduc
What happens when the apocalypse is a fairy tale?
Spring/Summer 2022 Favourite Reads
Read my Spring/Summer 2022 Favourite Sounds here. Alfabet/Alphabet: A Memoir of a First Language by Sadiqa de Meijer Winner of the 2021 Governor General Literary Award for Non-fiction. Finding this book about the adjustment from Dutch language and culture to Canadian was somewhat serendipitous, since my father made the same journey a few years beforeContinue reading “Spring/Summer 2022 Favourite Reads”
Review: Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
The unconventional approach to describing the legal battle, the juxtaposition of satirical characters against the cutting realism of the setting – this will definitely be a favourite book of 2021.
Review of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins
My tangling together of value and production, identity and respect paralleled a similar phenomenon in Canadian literature as a whole. Refuse has shown me what lurks behind the façade of my dream job.
Books for Canada: Truth, Solidarity, Hope
I don’t have answers to the whys or the hows. I’m not an expert in politics or social justice – I know books better than people. Writing is what I have to offer. In light of this, I’ve put together a list of books.
Review: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth mixes genres with glee. Its title character, a teenage girl trapped in indentured servitude on a dreary planet called the Ninth, is desperate to join the army (here called the “Cohort”). Harrow, her employer and the de facto ruler of the Ninth, is desperate to keep Gideon at her side, apparently out of sheer vindictiveness.
Emma Lammers 