Room by Emma Donoghue Everyone’s been singing Room‘s praises for months, and I think I knew too much about this book before I actually read it. I knew that it was told from the point of view of Jack, a five year old boy with an unusual speaking style. I …
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain Definitely a gripping story. At sixteen, CeeCee Wilkes is convinced by Tim Gleason, the man she is in love with, to help him kidnap the governor’s wife. She will be in charge of guarding the woman, who turns out to be …
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner A Three Reasons Review 1. Why I chose this book I read this for an on-line discussion group, but I was actually the one who nominated it. The theme was “prize winners” and this won the Man Booker Prize in 1984. It was short, …
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel Reading this, I got caught up in its spell. It’s not a perfect novel, but the story of obsession, loss and searching transfixed me. Lilia was kidnapped by her father when she was young and has been constantly traveling since then, …
And it was hard to say later how any moment this ghastly could possibly become a routine, but he knew no on else in the city, and she knew where Lilia was. He waited for her every night after that in the all-night coffee house on the corner of St.-Laurent …
Some of the folks up here were smarter than anybody he had met at the college, and they read everything they could find, so that they salted their conversations with phrases from Milton, Homer, and Shakespeare. So why were they content to remain here? He wasn’t sure, but if he …