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Welcome to my book review page. Here you will find links to all the book reviews from 2007 to the present time.

2013

• Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
• The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
• Crochet One-Skein Wonders by Judith Durant and Edie Eckman
• The Long Ships by Frans G Bengtsson
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (audio book)
• Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison
• Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
• Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
• And Also Sharks by Jessica Westhead
• The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
• Alys Always by Harriet Lane

2012

• Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
• A Month in the Country by JL Carr
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
• The New Mother by Lucy Clifford
• Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Twelve by Justin Cronin
• Casting the Ruins by MR James
• The Black Count by Tom Reiss 
• Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
• Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
• The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck (audio book)
• Georges by Alexandre Dumas
• Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
• Diving Belles by Lucy Wood
• One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
• Spoiled by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
• Under the Same Sky by Genevieve Graham
• The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty (audio book)
• Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Haunted Girl: Esther Cox & the Great Amherst Mystery by Laurie Glenn Norris
• Black Mask 6: The Bloody Bokhara and Other Crime Stories (audio book)
• Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap
• The Prestige by Christopher Priest (audio book)
• Dead Beautiful by Melanie Dugan
• The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• The Republic of Nothing by Lesley Choyce
• In Morocco by Edith Wharton
• Buffalo Hunt by Cora Taylor
• Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
• The Black Tower by Loius Bayard (audio book)
• Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• Train Like a Mother by Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (audio book)
• Bedbugs by Ben H Winters
• The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zwieg
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
• The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice (audio book)
• Red Means Run by Brad Smith
• The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall (audio book)
• Herland by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (audiobook)
• Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
• I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella (audio book)
• Entwined by Heather Dixon (audio book)
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• Quiet by Susan Cain
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (audio book)
• A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark (audio book)
• The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
• Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
• Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt
• This Year Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy

2011 

• The Town That Drowned by Riel Nason
• Puddn'head Wilson by Mark Twain
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James (audio book)
• The Queens of All the Earth by Hannah Sternberg
• Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
• His Mistress By Christmas by Victoria Alexander (audio book)
• The Doll: The Lost Short Stories of Daphne du Maurier
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
• I Am Half Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck 
• The Lunenburg Werewolf by Steve Vernon
• Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto
• Mind Over Mussels by Hilary MacLeod
• Carmilla, A Vampyre Tale by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (audio book)
• India Black and the Widow of Windsor by Carol K Carr
• Zone One by Colson Whitehead (audio book)
• Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore by Stella Duffy
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (audio book)
• Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley
• The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
• The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
• 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
• The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian (audio book)
• Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell
• Revenge of the Lobster Lover by Hilary MacLeod
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenson (audio book)
• Kerfol/The House of the Dead Hand by Edith Wharton
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (buddy read)
• Horns by Joe Hill (audio book)
• Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E Smith
• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
• Afterward/ The Eyes by Edith Wharton
• Slow Love by Dominique Browning
• Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Rigaud
• The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell (short story)
• The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• Insatiable by Meg Cabot
• The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
• The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan (audio book)
• The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
• The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly 
• The Tuesday Murder Club/ Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• Ink Flamingos by Karen E Olson
• Don't Kill the Birthday Girl by Sandra Beasley
• Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (audio book)
• Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
• The Third Miss Symons by Flora M Mayor
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
• Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber
• Bossypants by Tina Fey (audio book)
• Evelina by Fanny Burney
• Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow (short stories)
• 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson (audio book)
• Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
• Death of a Lesser Man by Thomas Rendell Curran
• A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (audio book)
• A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley (audio book)
• The Paris Wife by Paula McClain (audio book)
• Essex County by Jeff Lemire (graphic novel)
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (audio book)
• Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce
• The People of the Sea by David Thomson
• The Doll by Daphne du Maurier (short story)
• Two Williams Sonoma Cookbooks
• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
• The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
• The Canadian Housewife: An Affectionate History by Rosemary Neering
• Amigurmi World and Lacy Crochet (crochet)
• Pioneer Woman, Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond (audio book)
• What the Librarian Did by Karina Bliss
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (re-read)
• The Hound of Death by Agatha Christie (audio book)
• Affinity by Sarah Waters
• Simply Great Breads by Daniel Leader
• Home to Woefield by Susan Juby
• Scribbling Women by Marthe Jocelyn
• Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (audio book)
• India Black by Carol K Carr
• Julia Child, A Life by Laura Shapiro (audio book)
• The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff (audio book)
• Married With Zombies by Jesse Petersen (audio book)
• The Favored Child by Philippa Gregory
• The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (audio book)
• Motorcycles and Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor
• The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
• The Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft (audio book)
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
• The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
• Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery
• Dead Politician Society by Robin Spano
• The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
• Ice Land by Betsy Tobin (audio book)

2010

• Vixen by Jillian Larkin
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
• Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
• An Orange from Portugal (Anthology) by Anne Simpson
• Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens by Marie Nightingale
• The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
• Remarkable Creatures by Tray Chevalier
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• The End of Overeating by Dr David Kessler
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte
• Sew Charming by Cath Derksema & Kirsten Junor
• The Elements of Style by Strunk & White/ The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
• Babymouse: Cupcake Tycoon by Jennifer & Matthew Holm
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman (Readalong)
• The Little Stranger by  Sarah Waters
• Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie (audio book)
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Single in the City by Michele Gorman
• Prisoner of Dieppe by Hugh Brewster
• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (audio book)
• The Bleeding Dusk by Colleen Gleason
• Witchcraft by Clary Croft
• Persepolis & Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• The Exile by Diana Gabaldon, Hoang Nguyen
• Bespelling Jane Austen by Balough, Gleason, Krinard, Mullany 
• Her Mother's Daughter by Lesley Crewe
• The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories by Daphne du Maurier
• Driven to Ink by Karen E Olson
• This Book Is Overdue! by Marilyn Johnson
• Folly by Marthe Jocelyn
• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• Damaged by Pamela Callow
• Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
• The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
• The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan (audio book)
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (audio book)
• Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
• Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers (audio book)
• Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
• Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
• The Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton (audio book)
• Locavore Sarah Elton
• The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde (audio book)
• Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
• Ava Comes Home Lesley Crewe
• The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte Daphne du Maurier
• Mercury Hope Larson
• Coop: A Family, a Farm and the Pursuit of One Good Egg Michael Perry
• Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier
  
• Murder Is Easy Agatha Christie
• The Sea Captain's Wife Beth Powning
• One Straw Revolution Masanobu Fukuoka
• Captivated Piers Dudgeon
• Daughters of Witching Hill Mary Sharratt
• The Passage Justin Cronin
• The Brontes Went to Woolworths Rachel Ferguson
• Betsy-Tacy Maud Hart Lovelace
• Run Like a Mother Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea
• Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth Carrie Ryan
• The Wolf Leader by Alexandre Dumas
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott Kelly O'Connor McNees
• Somewhere a Band is Playing/ Fahrenheit 451(Graphic Novel) Ray Bradbury
• Read, Remember, Recommend (Journal)
• A Place for Frogs Melissa Stewart
• The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag Alan Bradley
• In the Sweet Kitchen Regan Daley
• Lady of Quality Georgette Heyer
• Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts
• Agnes Grey Anne Bronte
• The Last River Child Lori Ann Bloomfield
• Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres Ruth Brandon
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (graphic novel) Oscar Wilde
• Angel and Apostle Deborah Noyes
• Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
• Little Dorrit Charles Dickens
• Pretty in Ink Karen E Olson
• Fish for Dinner Paul O'Neill
• New Moon's Arms Nalo Hopkinson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 
• The Adventures of Blanche by Rick Geary
• I Never Liked You by Chester Brown
• Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale
• Austenland by Shannon Hale (dual review)
• Grow Great Grub by Gayla Trail 
• I Like You by Amy Sedaris
• Generation A by Douglas Coupland
• Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde
  
• The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
  
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  
• Jane Eyre (Graphic Novel) by Charlotte Bronte
• All About Jeeves by PG Wodehouse (audio book)

2009

• The Widow's Season Laura Brodie
  
• Cherries in Winter Suzan Colon
  
• The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson-Burnett
  
• Twenties Girl Sophie Kinsella
  
• Kaspar Diane Obomsawin
  
• Knit the Season Kate Jacobs
  
• Holidays On Ice David Sedaris
  
• Basil Wilkie Collins
  
• The Life of Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell
  
• Louis Riel, A Comic Strip Biography Chester Brown
  
• No Wind of Blame Georgette Heyer
  
• Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger
  
• Confections of a Closet Master Baker Gesine Bullock-Prado
• French Milk Lucy Knisley
• Dracula Bram Stoker (audio book)
  
• Rises the Night Colleen Gleason
  
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
  
• Haunting Bombay Shilpa Agarwal
  
• The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood
  
• March Geraldine Brooks (audio book)
  
• Of Human Bondage W Somerset Maugham
  
• An Echo in the Bone Diana Gabaldon
  
• Not Wanted on the Voyage Timothy Findley
• Cleopatra's Daughter Michelle Moran
• Alice I Have Been Melanie Benjamin
• The Book of Lost Things John Connolly (audio book)
• Wicked Plants Amy Stewart
• The White Queen Philippa Gregory
• The Weight of Silence Heather Gudenkauf
• Hush Hush Becca Fitzpatrick
• Comfort Food Kate Jacobs
• Watership Down Richard Adams
• Bashful Bob & Doleful Dorinda Margaret Atwood
• Two Years, No Rain Shawn Klomparens
• Wideacre Philippa Gregory
• The Earth Hums in B Flat Mari Strachan
• Why Evolution Is True Jerry Coyne
• Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
• The Penny Pinchers Club Sarah Strohmeyer
• The Missing Ink Karen E Olson
• The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns Elizabeth Leiknes
• Don't Call Me A Crook Bob Moore
• My Lord John Georgette Heyer
• 1892 Paul Butler
• Robert Munsch Reviews
• Ecoholic Adria Vasil
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Katherine Howe
• A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy Charlotte Grieg
• The Painter of Shanghai Jennifer Cody Epstein
• Cupcakes Martha Stewart
• Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford
• Frederica Georgette Heyer
• Animal Vegetable Miracle Barbara Kingsolver
• The Talisman Ring Georgette Heyer
• 101 Ways to Help Save the Planet before You're 12! Joanne O'Sullivan
• Stardust Neil Gaiman
• Blogging in Pink: A Woman's Guide Michelle Mitchell
• The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Teaser Jan Brogan
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Betty Smith
• Cousin Kate Georgette Heyer
• The Disappeared Kim Echlin
• The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
• Coal Black Heart John DeMont
• Linen Wool Cotton Akiko Mano
• The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
• Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
• Rubies in the Orchard Lynda Resnick
• Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts
• The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
• Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks
• Little Bee Chris Cleave
• The Wise Woman Philippa Gregory
• The Pluto Files Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Come Thou, Tortoise Jessica Grant
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley
• The Spy Who Came In From the Cold John leCarre
• Wicked By Any Other Name Linda Wisdom
• Sima's Undergarments for Women Ilana Stanger Ross
• Getting Over Edgar Joan Barfoot
• 1984 George Orwell
• The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
• Skeleton Creek Patrick Carman
• The Heretic's Daughter Kathleen Kent
• Gods Behaving Badly Marie Phillips
• Anne's House of Dreams L.M. Montgomery
• Living With the Dead Kelley Armstrong

2008

• Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
• Puppet Joy Fielding
• Lord John and the Hand of the Devils Diana Gabaldon
• The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham
• The Reluctant Widow Georgette Heyer
• Negotiating with the Dead Margaret Atwood
• The Lace Reader Brunonia Barry
• Shot Girl Karen E Olson
• Martha Stewart's Cooking School
• I Am Legend Richard Matheson
• Pemberley Shades /Old Friends and New Fancies DA Bonavia-Hunt/Sybil G Brinton
• A Jolly Good Fellow Stephen V Masse
• Coraline Neil Gaiman
• Capote in Kansas Kim Powers
• My Cousin Rachel Daphne DuMaurier
• Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
• Hooked On Murder Betty Hechtman
• The Gargoyle Andrew Davidson
• Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill
• Farworld J Scott Savage
• The Far Pavilions M.M. Kaye
• Yellowknife Steve Zipp
• Jane Eyre's Daughter Elizabeth Newark
• Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
• Thursday Next: First Among Sequels Jasper Fforde
• Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
• False Colours Georgette Heyer
• Loyalists and Layabouts Stephen Kimber
• The Amnesiac Sam Taylor
• The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank
• Summer Edith Wharton
• And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
• The Other David Guterson
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
• A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
• Marie-Therese: Child of Terror Susan Nagel
• Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
• Lesley Castle Jane Austen
• The Rest Falls Away Colleen Gleason
• Hawaii James A. Michener
• Daphne Justine Picardie
• Mansfield Park Jane Austen
• Ask Again Later Jill A Davis
• 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover Linda Wisdom
• Anne of Windy Poplars L.M. Montgomery
• Tess of the D'Ubervilles Thomas Hardy
• A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews
• Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• The Winter Rose Jennifer Donnelly
• The Good Liar Laura Caldwell
• The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Larry's Party Carol Shields
• Bleak House Charles Dickens
• Lost in Austen Emma Webster

2007

• The Long Stretch Linden MacIntyre
• Chocolat Joanne Harris
• Cotillion Georgette Heyer
• Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade Diana Gabaldon
• Secondhand Smoke Karen E Olson
• Dead of the Day by Karen E Olson
• Love In the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Don't Look Now and Other Stories Daphne DuMaurier
• Anne of the Island Lucy Maude Montgomery
• An Infamous Army Georgette Heyer
• The House on the Strand Daphne DuMaurier
• The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
• Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Lauchlin of the Bad Heart D.R. MacDonald
• The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer-Bradley
• The Queen of Babble in the Big City Meg Cabot
• The Secret Life of Lobsters Trevor Corson
• To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
• Vanity Fair William Thackeray
• Tulip Fever Deborah Moggach
• Fall On Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Unless Carol Shields
• My Antonia Willa Cather
• Faking It Jennifer Crusie
• Mr Darcy's Diary Amanda Grange
• Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
• The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
• Adam Bede George Eliot
• The Elements of Style (Audiobook) Wendy Wasserstein
• Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
• The Seven Daughters of Eve Bryan Sykes
• Saving Fish From Drowning Amy Tan
• Moll Flanders Daniel DeFoe
• The Birth House Ami McKay
• O Pioneers! Willa Cather
• The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
• Shopaholic Ties the Knot Sophie Kinsella
• Died Blonde Nancy J Cohen
• Shoot Me Lesley Crewe
• The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
• A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
• The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
• The Boleyn Inheritance Philippa Gregory