Book of the month – Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Halloween is over, I’m wearing a poppy and it was -2 degrees when I got into my car this morning. I know what you’re thinking – cue the Michael Bublé Christmas album and eggnog, right? Wrong. I am a...
View ArticleBook of the month – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
To say the Unputdownable Book Club started December off with a bang would be a serious understatement. I’m not kidding. I have a Santa costume, countless empties and permanent marker all over my skin...
View ArticleNovember book review – satirical blogger Jenny Lawson’s memoir Let’s Pretend...
“Mm… yeah, let’s pretend this never happened.” A phrase some of us have embarrassingly stammered far too many times than care to admit. So when passing a book in Chapters called Let’s Pretend the Never...
View ArticleJulia’s Picks
Most people have dreams. They want to climb Kilimanjaro, win a Nobel prize or have a family of six. They aspire to be all sorts of things. I’m no different, and I’ll tell anyone who will listen about...
View ArticleMemoirs – Good and Bad
Presidential Memoirs… good or bad? Prompted by the fact that the UBC has recently chosen a few memoirs to read, and I have read many on my own, I got to thinking about what makes a good memoir and why...
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