BOOKS
Beneath Dark Waters - Eve Lazarus
Eve Lazarus
While the Titanic sinking may be one of the most famous Maritime disasters, it's not the biggest or the one that touches Canada the most. A few years after the Titanic had it's ill-fated meeting with
Moral Ambition - Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman
This is Rutger Bregman’s treatise to get you to do more with your life than simply get a job to earn lots of money and find a position of power. He says that you have a deep moral obligation to make
My Friends - Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman does it again, serving readers a tragic but also uplifting tail that brought me to tears. This was by far the one I thought was going to end in all tragedy, but had a strong light at
The Prison Healer - Lynette Noni
Lynette Noni
Here we meet Kiva, who was taken to prison because her father was seen near a rebel. After her father dies in prison Kiva becomes an assistant healer and then takes her father’s place as a healer in
Apple in China - Patrick McGee
Patrick McGee
Apple in China paints a picture of a company that took Steve Jobs personality to heart. From Tony Blevin's making deals that put workers in dire situations at Foxconn so that the company could hit th
Meditations for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman
This is an in progress read for book club. Scroll to the bottom to see the related posts. Oliver Burkeman asks us to spend one day on each chapter, ideally, and evaluate how hard we are on ourse
The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
Kaliane Bradley
This book started off slow and while it sped up a bit, it was never a breakneck paced science fiction thriller. It's firmly a character driven story that has some science fiction as a background to h
Of Boys and Men - Richard V Reeves
Richard V Reeves
The main idea that Richard V Reeves is trying to get across is that men are in crisis now, and that acknowledging the crisis that men are having doesn't negate any compassion and equality we still ne
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik
While this book was recommended to me (from a source I can’t remember) as an excellent fantasy novel that added dragons to the war between Britain and France during Napoleon’s time, I can’t continue
A Witch’s Sin - Daniel B Greene
Daniel B Greene
Welcome to a world of technology embedded in your body, where ads can blare at you at any time and an open window means you’ve granted permission for a drone to broadcast further ads into your person