When a friend asks you to read the book they just wrote, things have the potential to get awkward. Of course, you want to support said friend and you’re definitely interested to check out their chef d’oeuvre. But what if you hate it? Do you risk the friendship in the interest of honesty? Raise your […] Read more…
Heading to New York anytime soon? There’s no shortage of cool things to see and do in the Big Apple but one of the newest? The Amazon Books store in Columbus Circle. With existing stores in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington), this is the seventh physical store the online retail giant has opened (with […] Read more…
When I was around eight years old, my mom and I traveled to Prince Edward Island for an unforgettable journey that has stayed with me my whole life. Just the two of us, exploring the beauty of the island and getting intimately acquainted with the always friendly, often gossipy and sometimes meddlesome locals. And we […] Read more…
When we travel, we all have certain essentials that we just can’t leave home without. Way at the top of my list, alongside my passport and my iPhone is my eReader. I just can’t be without a book … ever. The morning we were leaving for our honeymoon, while my husband and I dashed around, […] Read more…
I’ve been a bookworm for as long as I can remember. Of all the gifts my mother bestowed upon me throughout my life, a love of reading is perhaps the greatest. She instilled a love for the written word in me from the very beginning and today, I couldn’t imagine my life without books. They […] Read more…
Last summer, a girlfriend of mine mentioned that she’d just read a book by Linwood Barclay and my curiosity was instantly piqued. Growing up, my mom always read Barclay’s column in the Toronto Star and many a night, over family dinner, she’d read his column to us. The columns I remember were humorous and anecdotal, […] Read more…
I read Anita Shreve’s The Pilot’s Wife (Little, Brown and Company, 2001) 12 years ago. I enjoyed it enough and it put Anita Shreve on my radar. But in the years to come, none of the reviews of her new books enticed me enough to read them. Recently, I read a review of her book […] Read more…
I love lists. Top 10 lists of the world’s best beaches; the best 100 movies of all time; New York City’s top 25 restaurants. I like running my way through these lists and seeing how many I can check off. So I was excited to see Conde Nast Traveler’s list of The 69 Greatest Fiction […] Read more…
