Paisley Lamm seems like a perfect suburban wife—pretty, young, mother of 2 girls, flirtatious and fun. She’s an instigator, inviting the neighbourhood women to join her in a hot tub for a party, always stepping in with a suggestion that ends up being life-changing and life-saving at the same time. Her joie de vivre is…
Category Archives: Literary
Leaving Van Gogh
Leaving Van Gogh was a fantastic book. Carol Wallace transports the reader to the time of the Impressionists in France and she becomes the character who tells the story, Dr. Gachet, which caused me to become even more engrossed in the story (and so I had to keep reminding myself that this wasn’t history but…
The Map of True Places
Zee Finch grew up with a mentally disturbed mother who poisoned herself, witnessed by her daughter, when Zee was 11. Now, as an adult, Zee has become a well-respected psychotherapist with a thriving practice and a close friendship with her boss. But when one of her patients commits suicide, Zee is slammed back into her…
Russian Winter
I like books that feature characters from a different country or culture or with an interesting profession. I enjoy a story that spans across years, revealing secrets and regrets and reality. I enjoyed Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay for all of those reasons and more. Unfortunately, it’s often hard for me to write a review…
The Long Song
On occasion I read books that I feel wholly unqualified to review – I don’t have an English degree, I’m not a teacher or a librarian, I just love books. The Long Song by Andrea Levy, a 2010 Man Booker Prize finalist now out in paperback, falls into this category. The Long Song opens with…
Daughters-in-Law by Joanna Trollope
I’m a mother of three teens and I know how my family runs pretty well now, especially as I am largely instrumental in this. We have our quirks, our ways of doing things. The kids know what to expect, and how to deal with strange parents and those evenings when suddenly everyone is chattering in…
The White Devil
Andrew Taylor has been kicked out of a Connecticut boarding school and sent to Harrow School in England with orders to get his act together. If he blows it again, he’s on his own. The only new Sixth Former (senior) at Harrow, Andrew is having trouble fitting in. And when he witnesses the murder of…
On Reading: Books that Inspired Us as Mothers
I well remember that fateful day when I stared in disbelief at the home pregnancy test, the small pink line indicating a positive result. Although I had always known I wanted to have kids, although I’d been married 4 years at that point, I was still petrified. Surely I wasn’t really grown-up enough to be…
My New American Life
Lula is an Albanian immigrant who’s overstayed her tourist visa but it’s no problem—she has a sponsor. She’s working in a quiet suburb as a live-in nanny for Mr. Stanley and his 17-year-old son Zeke, and she’s pretty bored most of the time. Life spices up when she’s visited by 3 young Albanian men in…
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