I recently saw the trailer for the movie The Wife and learned it was based on a book and for some reason I thought it was based on a true story. The story wasn’t that compelling for me, so I didn’t go out searching for it. But when browsing my library for an audiobook to…

Cassie Stocks’ Dance, Gladys, Dance is written in the first person narrative, that person being Frieda. Frieda is lost. That’s how I see her. She is between jobs, going nowhere in life, a lot of unfulfilled endeavours such as university and her joy of painting. Through a newspaper ad, she meets Mr. H (that’s what…

Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Square turned out to be a difficult book to read. Mostly because it hits a little too close to home. The main character, Jean, seems to be having a mental breakdown, definite delusions, caused by a medical problem with her brain that required an operation. When I finished reading the book, I…