I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “When I saw forward into my death and welcomed its yawn, I haunted me,” (LaPierre 4). In her newest poetry collection, Margo LaPierre gives a powerful and real look at psychosis, mania, and bipolar disorder. Not looking to romanticize her mental illness, LaPierre humanizes …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Why did it scare her so? She was a fighter, an independent woman with a successful profession, not house bound like her mother had been, and all the female generations before. And yet, the Stong family lineage held her captive,” (Grundy 163). Right before …
“But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die,” (McConaghy 232). Dominic Salt and his three children are the caretakers of a tiny island called Shearwater, home of the world’s largest seedbank. Once full of researchers, dangerous environmental events caused by climate change have left …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “I’d rather be me now, than me any age prior. But there is this heaviness to aging. Who I am was built on the shoulders of the person I was last year, and the year before, and before, and before. I’m not …
“‘Bear…I love you. Pull my head off,” (Engel 90). Lou works a quiet, easy life in the archives of the Historical Institute, but when her boss offers her the chance to catalogue the library of an eccentric nineteeth-century colonel in northern Ontario, she jumps at the chance. But when Lou gets there she is shocked to …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Would it be like that with her? When she died, would her loved ones be told to move on?…She wondered this for weeks. She wondered if this was why people worshipped God, why she herself was attracted to that devotion. God the eternal, …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “The world is unfair to women. That’s why women need other women to teach them how to survive,” (Choi). In 1924, Kim Na-Young lives a quiet life in the village of Daegeori where she cares for her sick mother and tends to her …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “The Collective can be a powerful force. Perhaps together you’ll make the word flesh. Tap the Wound and bring it to vivid life. Making something beautiful is, after all, the best revenge,” (Awad). Samantha Heather Mackey has just published her debut novel. Living …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “The land would always return to its feral character; the trick is to place your bets on when and how. But the bust is inevitable. As sure as the sun fades with the silvering of the day,” (Welsh 84). As the Klondike Gold Rush …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. Caitlin Galway’s A Song for Wildcats follows characters from postwar Australia, late 1960s France, the Troubles in Ireland, 1930s New York, and 1980s Nevada who are processing grief, trauma, love, and their place in the world after facing adversity. She’s a talent of a …
Sarah O'Connor 