You still think it's beautiful to die for your country. The first bombardment taught us better. When it comes to dying for country...

  Last summer I re-read The Great Gatsby in anticipation of seeing the Baz Luhrmann film.  I watch very few films, and rarely go to th...

Reading The English Patient immediately after Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April , I was struck by the similarities in settin...

As I began Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April I was immediately reminded of Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs. Palfrey at the Clarem...

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood is a deeply satisfying book.  This is the kind of book that I can (and did!) turn from the last page back t...

Whilst researching her book The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk , author Jennifer Niven encountered information about Ad...

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book . - Thomas à Kempis When Nin...

Originally published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens is one of the earliest of Farley Mowat's numerous publications.  It was the winner...

The girls flying a kite with their grandparents and Panda the dog.

The History of Emily Montague is part travelogue, part political report, part love story.  A fascinating first-hand glimpse into the col...

I remember finding an ancient copy of this book on the library shelf in the late 1990's.  Because my arms were already full with othe...

In 1836, Nova Scotia was a British colony, still more than a decade away from responsible government and closer in time to the War of 181...

Julie Devaney writes about her experiences with Ulcerative Colitis, a type of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in My Leaky Body: Tales from t...

Have you heard? Jian Ghomeshi announced today the theme for the Canada Reads 2014!  I am really looking forward to hearing some of the recom...

I found a battered old copy of Cue for Treason: A Tale of Shakespearian England by Geoffrey Trease in my school library when I was 14 ye...

Well, it's been a while since I have frequented this space! It was a lovely summer filled with sunshine and road trips and canoeing and...