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What I’m Reading: Slogging Through Marriage

December 4, 2014 by Jennifer Leave a Comment

Weddings are wonderful; newlywed life is exciting and full of life, but marriage... marriage is hard. Don't get me wrong. I'm happily married and wouldn't trade my husband for any other partner, but being married can be work. Figuring out one another's strengths, weaknesses, habits, tics, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Club, Entertainment Tagged With: book club, books, David Nicholls, harper collins, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Literature, marriage, Matthew Thomas, novels, Random House, Us, We Are Not Ourselves, You Should Have Known

What I’m Reading: Let’s Hear It For the Girls

November 4, 2014 by Jennifer 3 Comments

My nine-year-old daughter is a voracious reader of series. She has plowed through everything from Magic Tree House to Chris Colfer's Land of Stories trilogy, and she loves finding a series that gets her hooked. Recently she started Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, and since I remember the summer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Club, Entertainment Tagged With: book club, books, chick lit, kate manning, lena dunham, Literature, my notorious life, not that kind of girl, Penguin, Random House, reading, shopaholic, sophie kinsella

What I’m Reading: Fall Books

September 30, 2014 by Jennifer Leave a Comment

Aaaaahhhh fall! So much to love about the season: boots and tights; apple crisp and pumpkin pie; cooler days and turning leaves. And just as we leave our beach and pool days behind, so too do we turn away from light, summer reads. I love the meatier, heavier tomes that come out in fall, and this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Club, Entertainment Tagged With: All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, book club, book review, books, Five Days Left, Ian McEwan., Julie Lawson Timmer, Literature, Marie Phillips, The Children Act, The Table of Less Valued Knights, what to read

What I’m Reading: “Frog Music”

May 22, 2014 by Jennifer Leave a Comment

A few years ago, I picked up Emma Donoghue's ROOM, not knowing anything about it. The best-selling  novel was told in the voice of a five-year old boy who has been locked in a room with his mother all his life. It was an amazing, charming, funny literary tour de force. I've been looking forward to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: book club, Emma Donoghue, fiction, frog music, harper collins, Literature, novel, San Francisco

What I’m Reading: “All The Broken Things”

January 25, 2014 by Jennifer Leave a Comment

I think I fell in love with this book the first time I saw it. Throwing the old saying out the window, you really can judge this book by the cover. Kathryn Kuitenbower's All the Broken Things lives up to the beautiful, captivating artwork on the paperback. Set in Toronto in 1983, Bo is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: All the Broken Things, book club, book review, fiction, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Literature, novel, Random House

The Reader

August 31, 2012 by Amanda

I thought I would get a lot of summer reading done this summer. Ha! Then life happened and I was lucky to have crammed in one book over my holidays. One day while downtown, I picked up a copy of Margaret Atwood's "Alias Grace" and set about reading it on my break.I devoured it. Margaret Atwood is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: holidays, Literature, reading, summer

News Headlines for Monday, April 6, 2009

April 6, 2009 by Kath

In National News: Eastern Health 'should be shot' over cancer test handling: Williams (CBC)In our opinion: Cancer is unbelievably distressing to both patients and families; to have to deal with the uncertainty of flawed or missed laboratory tests is simply wrong. Unemployment to peak in 2010, board … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: American Idol, Arctic ice loss, Canadian news, cancer, Charlotte Roche, Country Music Awards, Danny Williams, Eastern Health, economic crisis, entertainment news, face transplant, Farrah Fawcett, financial crisis, financial news, international news, Italian earthquake, Italy, Jane Creba, Literature, national news, Newfoundland, shrinking sea ice, unemployment, Wetlands, world news

Book Club Reunion

March 2, 2008 by Jen

Reading has always been an important part of my life, giving me sustenance and an escape from reality.  I studied literature as my undergraduate major, and intellectually, I consider that time in my life to be the most personally fulfilling.  Reading books from many different eras, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: atonement, book club, friendship, life of pi, Literature, love in the time of cholera, reading

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