Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn
I got an alert that Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation was ready for me to pick up from the library. I didn't remember putting it on hold and I could not fathom why I would want to read a … [Read more]
If you haven't read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - go do it! It's a classic of children's literature, and one of those elevated children's texts that reads well as an adult - but also it's short and sweet, which busy adults can appreciate. Not to mention the story is about life and death, and … [Read more]
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Yesteryear is the debut novel of Caro Claire Burke, and is centred on a delightfully fiendish "what if". What if a popular American tradwife influencer one day found herself living in actual pioneer times? Such a simple conceit, and yet so thoroughly engaging. So it pains me to say: this book … [Read more]
The Good Liar by Denise Mina
I'm not sure how I first heard of The Good Liar (2025) by Denise Mina, but I probably saw it on some end-of-the-year-best-novels list. Mina seems to be a pretty prolific writer, but she was new to me. The Good Liar is a thriller/murder mystery that takes place in London. On the whole, I found this … [Read more]
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Not too much to say on this outside of the fact that the it went on just way too long. And I thought the one daughter, Emily, was insufferable throughout. I think if Patchett had shortened things a bit that the book would have been perfect. Tom Lake follows Lara Nelson as she and her family … [Read more]
The Game by Ken Dryden
Hockey occupies a precarious position in the hierarchy of my sports fandom. I watch a fair amount of my local team's games (Go Devils!) but I don't really know anything about the sport itself, outside a few big names from its history and a general comprehension of the rules. … [Read more]
