❤️❤️💔 In honour of Black History Month, author Zadie Smith’s story of three families of varying ethnic backgrounds living in England. Shifting points of view throughout the book, Smith highlights experiences of different people and different groups of people (immigrants, veterans, the religious right, interracial couples, first generation Britons). Mental health and violence plays an…

❤️❤️❤️ Jodi Picoult, once again, demonstrates her precise ability to run towards a controversial subject, and peel back the flesh, forcing us to see what we otherwise would not, and forcing us to question whether we would handle the situation differently should we be faced with it. Handle With Care is the first of Picoult’s…

❤️❤️❤️💔 Charlotte’s Web is now a children’s classic, by one of America’s best-loved children’s authors. EB White is also the author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of The Swan. The story of Fern, a little girl who saves Wilbur, the runt of a litter of pigs. The anthropomorphic animals do their best to save…

❤️❤️❤️ Mira Kirshenbaum’s The Weekend Marriage is a relationship self-help book that helps busy couples find the time to reconnect when they have only a few hours a week together. Employing common sense techniques that remind couples to put the same importance on their relationships as they do on their jobs, and their children. The…

❤️❤️❤️❤️In honour of Black History Month, I am posting a review of Nella Larsen’s short novel Passing. I read this originally in my university class African American Literature, and have revisited it several times in the last 13 years. Passing is the story of Irene Redfield and her friend Clare Kendry,  both mixed race women…

Sitting down to enjoy the snow and a new book – it combines two of my favourite topics: food and Canadian cultural history; it’s got to be good! #speakingincodtongues #lenorenewman #canada #culinary #canadiancuisine #culture #history #tbr #readinglist #readinglife #book #newbook #books #bookclub #bookstagram #bookclubofinstagram #read #reading #bibliophile #cooking #kalidesautelsreads 

❤️❤️❤️❤️ JD Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye has been a controversial novel since its original publication in 1951. Holden Caulfield is the personification of loneliness and angst, now associated primarily with teens. He feels misunderstood and surrounded by “phonies”. He seeks connections with people, but can never quite feel it. He dances with women,…

Sick day – how to decide what to read??? What are you reading today?

❤️❤️❤️ It Ended Badly is a humorous non-fiction book of famously contentious, sometimes terrifying, and always curious breakups ranging from Nero, to Oscar Wilde, to Norman Mailer, and Burton and Taylor. Written in a sarcastic wit, the book has the feel of talking to your best girlfriend; witty, smart and scrappy. Wright’s intended reader is…

❤️❤️❤️💔 The Time Traveler’s Wife is Audrey Niffenegger’s acclaimed debut novel. It has the unusual feature of falling into two genres – science fiction and romance. The story of a woman who meets her husband throughout her life time and loves him endlessly, though his genetic condition of time travel causes him to jump in…