At a conference I was attending in Toronto this week, I noticed that I had a hard time understanding speakers who had a foreign accent. This is weird, because I worked with international students until I changed jobs recently, and some had foreign accents that were sometimes quite strong but I had no difficulties understanding... Lire la Suite →

J'ai pré-acheté ce bouquin de mon auteure préférée, Kathy Reichs, donc le jour-même où il est sorti, j'ai pu commencer à l'écouter! Je l'ai écouté en trois jours. Pas mal. Pas son meilleur, pas son pire. Ce qui m'a frustré le plus c'est le manque de bon sens de Temperance Brennen. Ca n'est pas inhabituel... Lire la Suite →

Five minutes into this book, I was already regretting my purchase! It was read by a narrator that I found over-the-top although she nailed the auntie accents, and the story itself was really stupid — as in, "oh my god, this boy is so cute and his eyes are sparkling and I am so in... Lire la Suite →

This book by Sandra Perron was painful to read, but also amazing. It is the true story of a young woman who, in the 80s and early 90s dreamed of being in the military and ended up being the first Canadian woman in the infantry. Throughout her training and career, she faced terrible sexism, bullying,... Lire la Suite →

This book, by Rachel Barr, took me a little while to read even though it wasn't long because I found the narrator (who is also the author) a bit soporific--which was not a bad thing when I listened to her in the evening, but not so great while I was driving. It was a pretty... Lire la Suite →

Ceci est le troisième bouquin de la trilogie de Chris Hadfield, astronaut Canadien qui a fait ses études là où je bosse! Le premier bouquin, Apollo Murders, était extrêmement chouette, et puis j'ai téléchargé le deuxième bouquin en version électronique et je ne sais pas pourquoi, je ne l'ai pas lu. Quand le troisième est... Lire la Suite →