By Christina Clancy ** Publication Date 2 June 2020 ** Two siblings and two educator parents in Milwaukee bring a teenage boy into their home, eventually adopting him. Ann and Poppy love Michael and are thrilled to have him be a member of their family, until one disastrous trip to the family’s second home in …
By Sharon Myrick **Publication Date 14-August-2018** At first I wasn’t quite sure what to think of School Tales. It came across haltingly, as though it struggled to find a voice. Or perhaps too many voices. It felt like a manual for how to teach high school. But it definitely kept my attention and made me …
by Ann-Marie MacDonald (originally posted 16-June-2014) **This review DOES contain spoilers – read at your own risk** Originally written as an essay for Modern Fiction. The Way the Crow Flies begins with a military family moving from Germany to their newhome on a Royal Canadian Air Force Base in Centralia, Ontario, Canada. The time is 1962. World War …
(originally posted 16-June-2014) **warning: may contain spoilers** This review was written as an essay for Modern Fiction. Atonement is a tale set in England before, during and after World War II. This is the first book I’ve read by Ian McEwan. If all the tales are this sad, it would be hard to read …