Last year, I opened the Top 10 with a comment about how much 2020 had sucked. Given that we are still grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, it did leave me with a lot of time on my hands in the early part of the year to devour books like a madman. So, much like last…
I achieved a small goal of mine in 2018 by eclipsing the number of books I read in 2017. In 2018, I read over sixty books as opposed to the forty-five I read the year prior. You’ll see some repeat authors on my 2018 list – in fact, this is the third year in a…
“The raw, ugly, mottled things you fear about yourself in your most private moments – what happens when someone says them aloud to you? The feeling like your skin slipped from your body, showing everything, red and veined.” As teens, Kit and Diane were bonded by ambition; working hard to attain a scholarship offered by…
“You spend a long time waiting for life to start – her past year or two filled with all these firsts, everything new and terrifying and significant – and then it does start and you realise it isn’t what you’d expected, or asked for.” The Fever follows Dennie Nash, a young girl caught up in…
I had first planned to attend Bouchercon 2017 when it was first announced a number of years ago. Now that it has come and gone, I thought I would share my experience with others. Alaina and I arrived in town the evening of Wednesday, October 11th after taking an afternoon train from Ottawa down to…
Queenpin is the story of a young woman, who remains unnamed throughout, plucked from a two-bit nightclub where she’s cooking the books for a pair of half-wits and placed under the wing of the powerful Gloria Denton, a big player in the world of organized crime. Under Gloria, our narrator develops into a student of…
Dark Matter This book absolutely blew me away. Given that people were rather secretive on the overall plot by throwing out testimonials like, “Just read this, you won’t regret it”, how could I pass it up? Keeping in the tradition of the aforementioned praise, I will continue to refrain from spoiling the events in Crouch’s…
Katie and Eric Knox are parents to Devon, a young, talented and ambitious gymnast with Olympic aspirations. Devon has sacrificed her childhood in exchange for hard work and dedication to her craft while Eric and Katie have sacrificed their personal lives and finances to help Devon realize her full potential. As Devon approaches the age…
Every Read Thing 