DUCKS is the memoir of Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton that focuses on her time working in Alberta’s oil sands. Landing in 2005, with a brief one year reprieve in British Columbia, Kate spent two years working and living in both Fort McMurray proper and at several of the work camps with the goal of…
In his new novel CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN, author and founder of Cemetery Dance Publishing, Richard Chizmar, crafts a successful mixture of fiction/non-fiction while also tackling the ever-popular true-crime genre. Playing both author and main character, Chizmar tells of a fictional tale involving a serial killer on the loose in his hometown of Edgewood, Maryland in…
The gang returns in Richard Osman’s second installment of his acclaimed Thursday Murder Club series, The Man Who Died Twice. This time around, Elizabeth is confronted by a man from her past, and he needs her help. It seems he got caught up in a spot of bother and requires bodyguards, and who better to…
I’ve always been somewhat indifferent to Martin Short. Sure, he’s popped up in a few movies I’ve enjoyed (Three Amigos is a classic) as well as the absolutely hilarious SCTV, but it wasn’t until his new show, Only Murders In The Building, that I realized how much I enjoyed seeing him on screen. I was…
When drug addict Felix McAveety’s best friend Marina’s body is discovered in a park, Felix sets off on his own to uncover the culprit given the police force’s lack of leads. As the evidence begins to arrive fast and furious, Felix enlists the help of others including his ecstatic downstairs neighbor, as well as a…
I have been a Leafs fan almost as long as I can remember. I’ve told this story before in a review, but it bears repeating. When I was 8 years old, I came home after spending the afternoon with my friend, who happened to be a Montreal Canadiens fan. I told my Mom and my…
The Pallbearers Club follows Art Barbara, a lonesome teen who started his own extracurricular activity in an effort to bulk up his college applications. The club, consisting of just two people – Art and his eccentric friend Mercy – volunteers its time to act as pallbearers for those who have passed with little to no…
The Thursday Murder Club follows.. well, The Thursday Murder Club – a group of septuagenarian amateur sleuths who meet up every Thursday in their retirement community to investigate cold cases. But what happens when the group has the opportunity to investigate a live case? Will they offer more harm than help? After hearing about this…
Every Read Thing 