Gabriel Zevin’s TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW follows three friends – Sadie, Sam, and Marx – the creation of their critically acclaimed game, Ichigo, their video game company, Unfair Games, along with the tumultuous ups and downs that go hand-in-hand with coming of age together under a public spotlight. Apparently this book was all over TikTok…
Loosely inspired by his own mother’s journey to Canada, Dimitri Nasrallah’s Hotline follows Muna Heddad and her son Omar, two refugees from the war torn country of Lebanon, as they immigrate to Montreal in 1986 following the tragic death of Muna’s husband. In her previous life, Muna was a French teacher, but roadblocks in place…
Michael Christie’s GREENWOOD is a multi-generational saga following over a century of the Greenwood family through both its meteoric rise and devastating fall. Beginning in 2038, we begin with Jake Greenwood, an overqualified guide offering tours of one of Earth’s last remaining natural forests following the climate apocalypse some years earlier. She is presented with…
Centuries before our story begins, the robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, and ventured into the forest never to be seen again. Since that day, humans and robots have peacefully co-existed on the same moon, but occupying different regions. Now, a robot has ventured into human territory encountering Dex, a solitary tea…
Grady Hendrix returns with his much-anticipated novel, HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE. The story follows a pair of siblings, Louise and Mark, who have recently inherited their parents’ home following their tragic deaths in a car accident. Having flown across the country from California, Louise arrives to find her brother already taking charge of…
Much of Emily St. John Mandel’s STATION ELEVEN takes place twenty years after the collapse of modern society due to a lethal and vicious pathogen named The Georgian Flu. The novel follows a group of survivors, dubbed “The Travelling Symphony”; a troupe of musicians and actors who commute from settlement to settlement performing Shakespeare alongside…
Lachlan MacKinnon’s CLOSING SYSCO examines the tumultuous life of the Sydney Steel Plant; its ups and downs and the impact it had on the surrounding community both positive and negative. Being from Sydney myself, I’ve always been curious about the Steel Plant. Like many my age, I have perhaps a basic understanding of its economic…
In FABRIC OF THE GAME, Chris Creamer and Todd Radom provide a brief overview of each NHL team as well as how they came to their name and the evolution of their on-ice look. As a self-proclaimed jersey and sports logo geek, I jumped at the chance to grab this when I discovered it. FABRIC…
As a child in the 90s, Elamin Abdelmahmoud emigrated along with his parents from Sudan to Canada. In SON OF ELSEWHERE, Elamin authors a series of essays in which he explores growing up in a new country, learning a new language and culture while also finding his own identity along the way. To be honest,…
A number of years ago I stumbled across Brian Earl’s podcast CHRISTMAS PAST during my seemingly never-ending search for additional Christmas content. Brian’s podcast explores the long-standing traditions which make up the holiday seasons while also trying to uncover their often elusive origins. The episodes are pretty short, usually under fifteen minutes each, but pack…
Continuing in the vein of his Obama/Biden mystery series, author Andrew Shaffer takes democratic socialist and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders into the realm of the cozy mystery genre. Sanders and political intern Crash Robertson arrive in Eagle Creek as Bernie is set to take part in several events surrounding one of the town’s annual festivals.…
SMASH follows author Ian Winwood through years of research, writing and interviews surrounding the 90s explosion in punk music. Earlier this year, I read Dan Ozzi’s SELLOUT, a book that looked at the major label feeding frenzy that swept punk, emo and hardcore music in the 90s and 2000s. While SMASH covers a lot of…
Is it weird to say that I’ve only read 71 books so far this year? The last two years, I had read over 100 books each year, so I’m definitely down considerably. But 71 books is still more than a lot. Of those 71, here are my Top 10 reads. Fiction We Spread – Iain…
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