NO MIDDLE NAME

Lee Child. NO MIDDLE NAME: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories. Delacorte, 2017.

The very best way to read Reacher. Because you can stop and pause after forty pages or so, and not sacrifice a whole weekend at once. Love the stories of his youth too, and of his brother Joe. 

I AM A METIS

Peter O'Neil. I AM A METIS: The Story of Gerry St. Germain. Harbour, 2016. 

Biography of a BC entrepreneur, Conservative politician under Brian Mulroney, senator. Very interesting story of the late development of Metis pride.  

RU

Kim Thuy. RU. Vintage Canada, 2012.

Beautiful. Poetic. Experiences of a privileged female driven from home by war to a new life elsewhere, in Quebec. 

SILENT FLOWERS

Dorothy Price, Editor. Nanae Ito, Illustrator. SILENT FLOWERS: A New Collection of Japanese Haiku Poems. Hallmark, 1967.

Ancient haiku, beautifully illustrated with watercolour sketches. 

BUDDHISM FOR BEARS

Claire Nielson. Chris Riddell, Illustration. BUDDHISM FOR BEARS. Ebury, 1998.

Accessible. Beautifully illustrated. 

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

Paula Hawkins. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. Doubleday, 2014.

Hawthorne Book Club selection for April. I had to get up in the middle of the night to read more. Very engaging plot. Thriller. Set in 2013 in suburban London, UK. Involves substance use, blackouts, relationships, and a missing woman. 

ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM

Elizabeth Hay. ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM. McClelland and Stewart, 2011.

A Hawthorne Book Club selection for March. Loved this literary fiction which sucks us in with hints of murder and abuse and then presents a story of an almost invisible narrator discovering herself through researching family history and genealogy.Love how she distinguished between the facts we can find out and the things we will never know about the past and our ancestors who were there. Set in Saskatchewan in 1929 and then in Ontario in the end of the twentieth century.