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Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
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I'm from Toronto, Ontario, and a few of my favourite authors are Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, and Timothy Findley. I will read practically anything fiction, love almost all genres, with a special interest in Canadian literature. I belong to a small but wonderful selection of online book discussion groups which provide a great place for discussion but also have helped to … Read moreI'm from Toronto, Ontario, and a few of my favourite authors are Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, and Timothy Findley.
I will read practically anything fiction, love almost all genres, with a special interest in Canadian literature. I belong to a small but wonderful selection of online book discussion groups which provide a great place for discussion but also have helped to make my wishlist and TBR piles about 10x bigger than they started! :)
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Bess Grady is on a routine assignment in small-town Mexico as a photojournalist, but the howling of dogs triggers a terrible memory she's worked so hard to supress, and she knows she's stumbled onto something sinister that she must fight. Along the way she encounters the dark and mysterious Kaldak, a man she's not sure is out to kill her or help her bring down the cause of the evil that has brought destruction to the town and threatens the world. Frankly, this was not an incredibly impressive suspense novel. Nothing was awful, but nothing was great, and the slightly-below average rating comes from the total implausibility of the plot. There are much better suspense novelists out there,… Read more
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One afternoon, Elise Andrioli is sitting in the park when a young girl approaches and whispers that she's witnessed the murder of a neighbourhood boy. Cryptically refusing to call the murderer anything other than "Death from the woods," little Virginie draws Elise into a web of terror and frustration as this serial killer gets ready to strike again. The unique thing about this story is that our protagonist Elise is mute, blind, and quadriplegic, so she doesn't know how to convey this information to anyone else, and is left to suffer with her knowledge in silence as events progress around her at an alarming speed. A lot of the events in this book are a little unrealistic and… Read more
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Ave Maria considers herself the "town spinster" in Big Stone Gap, a tiny town in the mountains of Virginia where she's the town pharmacist and booklover. Her life is peaceful, quiet, and she's seemingly content, until she reads a letter from her recently-deceased mother which changes everything. Ave's life is turned upside-down and she rethinks her personal and family history, what she needs and wants to be happy in life, and her place in the world. A very nice and pleasing book, I plan to read the sequel. However, my one main complaint was that the characterisation here wasn't actually that impressive, compared to other aspects of the book. The men in this novel aren't… Read more
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