I mostly know Craig Davidson through the all-out horror novels of his evil twin Nick Cutter. The Troop clearly showed a taste for Stephen King’s It. The Deep resembled a version of Abyss a bored Lovecraft might have rewritten from…
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I was fortunate enough to not know about Iain Reid’s new book before it was available to me: I probably would have died of impatience, considering how I absolutely loved his first psychological thriller I’m Thinking of Ending Things. This…
I usually only review Canadian books on MapleBooks, but the memoir of Tara Westover absolutely needs to be talked about. Educated is shocking, heart-breaking, but also extremely insightful and inspiring. Tara was born the last child of a large family…
When you want less, you consume less—and you also need less. First of all, I should mention that The Year of Less is not a self-help book nor a manual to achieve minimalist living. The Year of Less is a…
I have loved stories who blur the boundaries between humans and animals since I read Philipp Pullman’s Dark Materials series. They restore—even by mean of Fantasy—a sense of connection with Nature, an acknowledgement that we share a fundamental experience—life on…
This week, we moved on from January to February, which means that we’re slowly winning the yearly fight against Winter. In Ottawa, it’s been a very strange winter, with temperature swinging up and down like a squirrel on an electric…
This Week in CanLit is a new feature I’m experimenting with on MapleBooks. I’m reading so much about books that I figured I could write a weekly sum-up for people who have a better social life than I do! 1….
Have you seen movie The Quest For Fire (1981)? It features a group of prehistoric humans trying to re-acquire fire after they lost it in a battle. Their language is rudimentary and they mostly act like beasts. Although the movie…
Every so often, one must read a Young-Adult novel. Especially when there is a cat lady involved, as well as a witty title. Besides, I couldn’t resist Optimists Die First‘s book cover, which is darn awesome, no pun intended. Okay,…