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Review: The You I’ve Never Known
Summary from Goodreads: “How do you live your life if your past is based on a lie? A new novel in both verse and prose from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ellen Hopkins.” For as long as she can remember, it’s been just Ariel and Dad. Ariel’s mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them are, but Ariel is now seventeen and after years of new apartments, new schools, and new faces, all she wants is to put down some roots. Complicating things are Monica and Gabe, both of whom have stirred a different kind of desire. Maya’s a teenager who’s…
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Review: The Wonder
Summary from Goodreads: “An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, The Wonder—inspired by numerous European and North American cases of “fasting girls” between the sixteenth century and the twentieth—is a psychological thriller about a child’s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.“ Thoughts: Before I rave about this book, let it be known that I have…
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Deals of the Day
With Groundhog Day behind us it seems that spring will be coming earlier! For this deals of the day I’ll be focusing on warmer weather items so you have something to look forward to in the coming weeks. Round-trip tickets to Vietnam Vietnam is world-renowned for it’s beauty and culture. Now you can check it out on the cheap. It’ll always be warm there to escape March’s bleary weather. $628 Aerie Scoop Wraparound Bikini Top You’ll need a bikini for your trip to Vietnam! Check out this deal from Aerie. $21.04 from $34.07 Canadian Olympic Team Baseball Support Canada’s 150-year birthday with this shirt showing how much you love your…
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4 CanLit Books for your Reading List
BY SHRUTI J If you’re a fan of Canadian literature, you have likely heard of Bear by Marian Engel. First published in 1976 by McClelland and Stewart, the Governor General’s Literary Prize winning novel has recently been in the news because of a reissue. The book has also gained popularity worldwide as a result of an Imgur post expressing shock at the risqué story of a young woman’s love (both physical and emotional) for, you guessed it, an actual bear. Regardless of whether you view Bear as an iconic piece of Canadian literature or merely a tale of an unusual fetish, it has undoubtedly made its mark upon the field.…
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Top 10 Canadian Albums of 2012
One Great Year for CanCon! By Daniel Polowin 10. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas After a somewhat unfortunate decade, this septuagenarian Canadian icon staged a comeback in 2012 with a worldwide tour and this platinum-selling album. Cohen is at top form in this, his first album of new material in eight years. Accompanying the bluesy instrumentation and the smoky baritone vocals we’ve come to expect from Cohen are some of his most moving lyrics yet. Cohen returns to his familiar meditations on love, sex, and God but with the added poignancy of a poet in the autumn of his life. 9. A Tribe Called Red – A Tribe Called Red Combining electronic, hip hop,…
