Beyond its traditional and tasteful cover, Anjali Pathak's cookbook is a bit of a mess...in a good way. Appetite - Penguin Random House True: I love the stylish photographs that often appear in cookbooks, with the serving ware colourful and bold and the table linens complementary and coordinated. But,
A romance can pull me through even a long classic which isn't holding my attention otherwise. This is what got me through Vanity Fair. And of all the chunksters on my shelves, I might stall in some, but I sailed through Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale (even though the romance is largely confined
Beginning: Was it like this before? A slow start, a growing realization that these characters are not trying to be likeable, only to be believable? Doubleday Canada, 2015 Pip (short for Purity) seems rather like a middle-aged woman in a young woman's skin, so many worries and an overwhelming sense
Like Anne Tyler, the only plot that Marina Endicott has is the passage of time. The events in her novels are ordinary happenings, but there is a delicious sense of unspooling when one falls into one of her narratives. Doubleday Canada, 2015 Close to Hugh is structured over a week's time and
If you recognize Mary Dyer as being one of the Boston Martyrs, you will expect Beth Powning's tale to be a harrowing one. To some extent, this is the case. Knopf - Penguin Random House, 2015 But even if the historical record considers the most remarkable aspect of Mary
