The hot days of summer have well and truly arrived. That’s a good reason to forego physical activity and find a cool place to read a good book. Here are some titles I’ve enjoyed which might pique your interest. A Dark Matter by Doug Johnstone If you’re a lover of …
Editor’s Note: For the fifth consecutive year, The Current is pleased to offer this list of books for Christmas reviewed by Doreen Yakabuski. At this time of year, I seem to do a lot of writing: Christmas cards, a Christmas shopping list, menus for holiday get-togethers, and that very important letter …
Readers who believe they’re on Santa’s Nice List might want to include some of these fiction titles in their letters to him, whereas readers who suspect they might be on Santa’s Naughty List could perhaps gift these novels to themselves. Everyone deserves a good book. Above: Santa (Jack Vanderburg, the author’s …
With Covid-19 vaccines being administered, our lives are slowly returning to some semblance of normal. If your normal includes reading, here are some suggestions for novels to add to your summer TBR pile. Above: photo Doreen Yakabuski A Funny Kind of Paradise by Jo Owens This book should be at …
Winter is a great time for reading; there’s nothing like curling up in a comfy chair with a good book and a hot beverage on a cold day. And in a pandemic winter, with its lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, there’s even more incentive to hunker down and read. The good news is …
Like most avid readers, I always mention books in my annual letter to Santa. If you want to please a reader on your Christmas list, consider gifting one of these. Or be Santa to yourself and buy one or more to help you through the long winter ahead. (Above, “Santa carrying …
Some summer days are warm and sunny and others are cool and rainy, but all summer days are perfect for reading. Here are some suggestions for books to take to your favourite reading spot. (Above: a favourite summer reading spot in the author’s backyard . Photo supplied.) A Gentleman in …
Editor’s note: Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club is one of the five finalists in CBC’s 2020 Canada Reads competition. This debut novel from Megan Gail Coles was a finalist for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Coles, from Savage Cove in Newfoundland, is a graduate of Memorial University …
Except for those who are super-organized and have already finished Christmas shopping, it’s time to start thinking about gifts for the special people in your life. For readers on your Christmas list, books are the perfect present. If you have a fiction lover to buy for, you might consider gifting …
Lori Lansens is one of my favourite Canadian writers; I’ve read and loved all of her books so I was anxious to read This Little Light, her latest novel. It is an intense, compelling read. Events are set in Calabasas, California, over a period of 48 hours in November of …
Summer is not summer without taking time to relax with a good book. Here are some suggestions for novels to read at the cottage by the lake or in the backyard under a shady tree. Meet me at the Museum by Anne Youngson is the debut novel of a 70-year-old. …
This novel, a study of a 70-year marriage, is about ordinary people but is extraordinary in quality. Harry Miles, a sensitive man with a love of poetry, meets Evelyn Hill and falls in love immediately. He describes her personality when he first meets her: “She had an appetite for the better …
As an avid reader, I’d love if Canadians adopted the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð (Yule Book Flood). On Christmas Eve, Icelanders exchange gifts of books and then spend the evening reading. This custom sounds like heaven to me because my wish list for Santa always includes books. If you have …
This book was on my to-read pile for quite a long time. I resisted reading it because of its sad and serious subject matter. Now that I’ve finally read it, I am not sorry I did. Though emotionally raw at times, it also has wonderful comic moments, and in its …
Doreen Yakabuski in a corner of her home library. Photo: Jack Vanderburg Since any survival skills I learned in Outdoor Education at MVDHS are long forgotten, I hope the necessities of life are easily attainable on my deserted island so my only worry is filling the hours. Because I was …
