reviews

Beautifully Devastating Author: Lisa Genova Book clubs are a great way to broaden your reading horizons. Left to my own devices I would undoubtedly end up alternating dystopian future YA with Bloody Knife horror novels until the end of time. But this month I was tasked with reading Still Alice by Lisa Genova by my BC friend and I'm not sure if I want to hug her or curse her. Still Alice is the story of a woman’s struggle with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I know – depression in a one sentence plot summary, right? And it’s true – the [...]

Modern Mythology Author: Madeline Miller Does anyone else feel like their children learned far more mythology in school than they did? It seemed like a bit of a raw deal to me, until I read The Song of Achilles. For if I had been well versed in the traditional story of the famed warrior, I think I might not have been as engaged in this modern retelling of his story. Author Madeline Miller teaches Latin and Ancient Greek. As a first time novelist, one might expect her prose to run a little dry in her adaptation of the story of [...]

Art Imitates Life Author: Emma Donoghue How big is your world? Are you a traveler, seeing as much of the planet as possible? Or maybe a home body who prefers to keep your circle of experience small and intimate? Whatever your chosen path, I guarantee you’ve not chosen a circle as small as that in Room. Room is the story of exactly that: a room. This particular room contains two human beings – Jack and his mother. It is just them and this is the only place they are. For 5-year-old Jack, it’s the only place that exists. Occasionally Old [...]