Nothing beats an 8-hour car trip to the US (and 8 hours back to Canada!) when you want to get through a long list of books you've been wanting to read since forever! Get Well Soon, by Jennifer Wright, had been in my to-read list for at least two years! Every chapter talks about a... Lire la Suite →

Wow, Rental Person Who Does Nothing, by Shoji Morimoto, was a strange and fascinating book! My friend Ana recommended it, and she said I should buy the paper version, not the audio version, because of the way the text is organized and there are pictures. She was right. This is a very unusual (and short)... Lire la Suite →

I got this book, Co-intelligence: Living and Working With AI, when it came out three or four months ago, in electronic format, and finally managed to read it. It's not very long (256 pages) and definitely not difficult to read. It's just some thoughts and (semi-latest) research about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and how it... Lire la Suite →

Louise Erdrich's The Sentence took me to a different planet and a different time: November 2019 to November 2020, in Minneapolis. Towards the end of the novel, the main character, Tookie, says, "I want to forget this year, but I’m also afraid I won’t remember this year." This is how I feel, too, about 2020!... Lire la Suite →

About a year ago, I read a book written by a Korean/American musician/artist, Michelle Zauner, about her childhood in the United States and the difficulties she encountered as a child who didn't look like her classmates, whose family didn't eat what her friends' families ate, whose parents had high expectations for her, and who had... Lire la Suite →

Ahhhh, I had been waiting for this new book by Kathy Reichs for a long time! I was surprised that they released the written, electronic, AND audio versions of Fire and Bones (8 hours and 41 minutes) all at the same time. This new Temperance Brennan story takes place in Washington DC and is a... Lire la Suite →

Things I don't Want To Know is a very short "living autobiography," as Deborah Levy, the author, calls it, and the first of a series of three books. In this first book, Levy tells about her childhood in South Africa and her family's exile to England. The writing is very British, with dry humour and... Lire la Suite →

I loved Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto! I laughed many times, and it was also touching and annoying and stressful and nail-biting and everything else a good summer novel should be. This was a perfect book to rest my poor brain after the death-focused summer (events and readings) I've had... Lire la Suite →

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty, is a fascinating book and I absolutely loved it! The author, who is a mortician, tells the story of how she started working in a mortuary and then went to "death school" to learn how to embalm dead people. This sounds gloomy and depressing, but she talks... Lire la Suite →

The Celebrants, by Steven Rowley, (narrated very nicely by the author,) tells the story of six friends, Alex, Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle, as they go through the ups and downs of their lives over about three decades. They became friends in university, where one of them died. That death spurs the idea of... Lire la Suite →

Absolution, by Alice McDermott, tells the story of three American women: Charlene, the wife of a businessman sent to Vietnam in the early sixties, Tricia, the wife an engineer also sent to Vietnam, and Charlene's daughter. The first 7 hours of the book are told by Tricia, the next 2 hours are told by Charlene's... Lire la Suite →

I just finished listening to The Other Family Doctor, by Karen Fine, and it was very interesting. The author talks about the difficulties she encountered when trying to become a female veterinarian, how few vet schools exist, how sexist many vets were when she tried to find a job. She also talks about puppy mills,... Lire la Suite →

The Chess Men is the final book of Peter May's Lewis trilogy. It's a lovely book to listen to, with the strong Scottish accent of the excellent narrator. The three books are wonderful as they dive into the culture, history, and atmosphere of this area far away from the rest of the world where life... Lire la Suite →

I selected this book because it was pretty short (8 hours of narration) and not too serious or depressing, even though it does take place in London after the first World War. It was a fun story, very British, narrated by a woman with a quite strong British accent who didn't do men's voices well... Lire la Suite →

The summary of Nagasaki, by Eric Faye, sounded really good, and the book got many awards, but I was really surprised by the whole thing. There was no end, really, and no resolution of anything. I think the book was originally written in French and based on a true story, which makes it interesting, and... Lire la Suite →