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Reading, ‘riting and Ravin’ about CanLit is my series of critical analyses and summaries of Canadian books. Check it out here.
Here are previous appraisals:
- Enlightenment 2.0: A belated review of Joseph Heath’s 2014 book
- It Did Happen There: A book review of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen There
- The science of Certainty: A book review of Timothy Caulfield’s The Certainty Illusion
- Dishing out justice and integrity: A book review
- Surrendering to Bono’s Life Story: A book review
- Thomas King’s literary daring dance with Sufferance: A book review
- Facing the Future: A book review of Catherine Leroux’s The Future
- My Effin’ Life: A book review of Geddy Lee’s My Effin’ Life
- So It Goes Again: A review of Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
- All’s Fair In This Tale of Love in a Time of War: A review of Terry McConnell’s Lethbridge: A tale of love in a time of war
- There’s Nothing the Matter with Printed Matter: A book review of Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library
- ‘Sensation fiction’ or just sensational?: A book review of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White
- It’s not just a game — it’s The Game: A book review of Ken Dryden’s The Game.
- Mamma Mia! Couto is a wordsmith: A book review of Mia Couto’s Rain and Other Stories.
- What the Cat People Dragged In: A book review of Kristen Roupenian’s “The Good Guy” and Karen Joy Fowler’s Black Glass
- Easy come, easy go…I could have seen Queen live in the ’80s, but said no, no, no: A review (sort of) of Bohemian Rhapsody and some personal regrets
- We’re Habs Diehards, Born and Bred: A book review of Jay Baruchel’s Born Into It.
- Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. A book review
- Finding Joy and Gusto in Writing: A review of Ray Bradbury’s Zen In the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity.
- Words That Are Music To My Ears: Book review of Us Conductors, by Sean Michaels and Beethoven: The Man Revealed, by John Suchet
- A Bittersweet Tale of Love, Laughs and Life in the Cold Stone House of Willie Lincoln: A book review of George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo