Books

Book Review: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better by Monica Heisey (Red Deer Press, out now.) Whether or not you need a guide for getting on with the rest of your life, or figuring out what the heck you’re doing right now, you’ll enjoy Monica Heisey’s I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better. Monica, a Toronto writer/comedian, has…

Phoebe Gloeckner’s 2000 graphic novel (said in more ways than one) The Diary of a Teenage Girl — an intense and honest account of a girl in the 1970s who’s experiencing sex, drugs and depression after sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend — has now been made into a film staring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard. The book…

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. Crown, out now. [I received this book from Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] The Little Paris Bookshop is the story of Jean Perdu, who runs a book barge in the Seine called The Literary Apothecary, where…

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella. Delacorte Press, out now. [I received this book from Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] Breathe in for four counts, out for seven. Your body believes the threat is real, Audrey. But the threat isn’t real. Sophie Kinsella has…

I’m so excited to announce today that I have signed with a literary agent! I will be working with the wonderful Maria Vicente of P.S. Literary, who is responsible for getting Sam Magg’s Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy and Suzanne Sutherland’s Under the Dusty Moon out into the world, to name a couple! I am thrilled to…

Etta & Otto & Russell & James, by Emma Hooper. Hamish Hamilton, out now. [I received this book from Penguin Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] Etta – now: elderly wife, early alzheimer’s, restless; then: young schoolteacher, in love with a former student, grieving her sister. Otto…