I'm from Ottawa, Canada. My interests include genealogy, technology (VR, linux, Xbox, 3D printing), and reading (sci-fi, fantasy, history, adventure, mystery).
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"Hotline" is a novel by Dimitri Nasrallah. The story takes place in Montreal, Canada and centers around the life of …
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there …
People need to read this. As a father of a little girl, the book is terrifying, so it makes the need for a perspective shift an urgent one.
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story …
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic …
I won't write a lot because I'm afraid of giving spoilers. The other reviewers here summed up the book nicely. I only knew about this and read it because it is one of the books in this year's Canada Reads. I don't know how it fits the year's theme, and it doesn't feel at all Canadian (despite the nationality of the author), but that shouldn't take away from the book itself.
I understand that Mexican Gothic will be a TV series on Hulu! This is fantastic news, as it is absolutely perfect material for this sort of thing.
Some thoughts: it's a fun, pulpy ride! I was always a huge fan of The House on Haunted Hill (both the original and the remake), so this was a great time. I was confused, though, at the repeated references that the book took place in the 1950s, as there was really nothing …
I won't write a lot because I'm afraid of giving spoilers. The other reviewers here summed up the book nicely. I only knew about this and read it because it is one of the books in this year's Canada Reads. I don't know how it fits the year's theme, and it doesn't feel at all Canadian (despite the nationality of the author), but that shouldn't take away from the book itself.
I understand that Mexican Gothic will be a TV series on Hulu! This is fantastic news, as it is absolutely perfect material for this sort of thing.
Some thoughts: it's a fun, pulpy ride! I was always a huge fan of The House on Haunted Hill (both the original and the remake), so this was a great time. I was confused, though, at the repeated references that the book took place in the 1950s, as there was really nothing else (dialogue, descriptions, idioms, etc) that suggested that it took place at that time. The author's insistence of this fact was like a slap in the face each time because I just didn't believe it. Just set it in 2015 and we're all good.
"On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life …
Getting in is easy... Getting out is MURDER.
VINCENT, JULES, SYLVIE, AND SAM are ruthlessly ambitious high-flyers working in the …
@DerekCaelin@bookwyrm.social Your comment about "The Dispossessed" was interesting... a very short, concise "this one is a book club book!". I'm curious, though, what makes it a book club book? Are there a lot of interesting ideas that you're just bursting to talk to others about, or is there something about it that just requires in-depth discussion? Either way, I'm very interested. The other reviews are very convincing, too.
THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY of George Orwell's birth has brought these two groundbreaking novels together for the first time, along with …
I've got a love-hate relationship with Chris Hadfield. I love him because he's super-intelligent, fascinating, charismatic, handsome, nearly superhuman in every way, he made a music video in space, he's a natural educator, and it turns out that he's a talented author. I hate him - just a little bit - for all the same reasons. Jeez, the guy's perfect. He makes the rest of us look bad!
I had no idea that he wrote this book until I received it as a present, and I was immediately drawn to it. He's managed to create such an engaging story with some great characters and tons of action. At times, I wondered how realistic some of the story could be, then I remembered that it was written by a guy who has literally lived in space.
I don't want to give away any spoilers, so I'm so reluctant to say …
I've got a love-hate relationship with Chris Hadfield. I love him because he's super-intelligent, fascinating, charismatic, handsome, nearly superhuman in every way, he made a music video in space, he's a natural educator, and it turns out that he's a talented author. I hate him - just a little bit - for all the same reasons. Jeez, the guy's perfect. He makes the rest of us look bad!
I had no idea that he wrote this book until I received it as a present, and I was immediately drawn to it. He's managed to create such an engaging story with some great characters and tons of action. At times, I wondered how realistic some of the story could be, then I remembered that it was written by a guy who has literally lived in space.
I don't want to give away any spoilers, so I'm so reluctant to say too much about the story. There's absolutely no part of the story that is predictable. It could always go either way.
I really recommend that everybody reads the prologue, just to get a taste. Seriously, after the first three or four pages, you'll be hooked.
"When the naked, mutilated body of a man is found in a Notting Hill graveyard and the police investigation led …
Driven by the irony of being a genealogist who doesn't know who his own parents are, JeffersonTayte soon finds that …
