Laurie Burns

Moon Road By Sarah Leipciger

September 26, 2024 by Laurie Burns

Moon Road is a masterpiece of writing on grief.

A beige cover with two women's faces blending in to a bunch of flowers.

Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi

August 28, 2024August 28, 2024 by Laurie Burns

Silken Gazelles is a translated work of literary fiction that demands slow and careful attention while reading to catch all the beauty.

It is both a science fiction/dystopian book about poetry, but also includes some classic poetry reimagined. It really is genre defying, and it is necessary to suspend your belief and open your mind while reading this one.

Black cover with yellow blob. Two colourful outlines of women kiss in the bottom corner.

Experienced by Kate Young

June 12, 2024June 3, 2024 by Laurie Burns

Experienced by Kate Young is billed as a sapphic romantic comedy. It is a late coming of age story, about Bette, a woman who came out much later in life than most.

Cover of Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit. Picture of mountains and trees in the north

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit by Nadine Sander-Green

May 26, 2024 by Laurie Burns

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit is a story centered around Millicent, a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse after graduating from college, where she focused more on poetry than journalism. Yet off to journalism she goes, to work at the Golden Nugget, a failing daily newspaper with three staff.

The Years Shall Run Like Rabbit Cover. Pink flowers blooming in the night.

The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan

May 23, 2024May 22, 2024 by Laurie Burns

The title The Years Shall Run like Rabbits is from a W.H. Auden poem, but that might be your last connection to Earth as we know it in this outwardly tale.

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic by Michelle Hébert

May 8, 2024 by Laurie Burns

This is a darkly humourous, late coming of age tale, set in small-town Nova Scotia.

A silhouette of a canoe with two people in it, in the middle of a lake at night. The title is in white scripted letters at the top of the image.

Muskoka by Julian Samuel

April 2, 2024March 30, 2024 by Laurie Burns

This is a real fever trip of a book.

An orange background with large block and designed letters forming the title which fills the image. Running behind the letters is a dotted line ending in an arrow, arriving at "Medina." An illustrated light skinned man in a light blue shirt, tan pants, and a dark blue jacket sits on the "a" of "Medina." A woman with brown skin wearing a dark blue hijab, brown scarf, pink coat, and blue pants holds a suitcase and stands on the "M" of "Medina." The author's name and previous book title are in smaller letters at the bottom of the image.

Love from Mecca to Medina

March 21, 2024 by Laurie Burns

This book connects to S.K Ali’s previous book Love from A to Z, but it is not necessary to read the first one to read this one; Love from Mecca to Medina can certainly stand alone.

A light blue background with a blue, red, and green covered bicycle. A blue bird and a red bird sit on the seat of the bicycle. Only part of the bicycle is shown - part of the back wheel and the seat. The title is in dark blue letters to the left side of the blue bird. The author's name is in small red letters just above.

The Gift Child by Elaine McCluskey

December 10, 2024March 19, 2024 by Laurie Burns

No one writes Dartmouth as well as Elaine McCluskey writes Dartmouth.

End Times: Stories by Michelle Syba

January 15, 2024 by Laurie Burns

End Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polarization, and the messiness and mysteries of humanity.

Roar by Shelley Thompson

November 4, 2024October 30, 2023 by Laurie Burns

A novel inspired by the original screenplay for the award-winning feature film Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor, about a young trans woman who returns to her family farm in the wake of her mother’s death, written by celebrated actor and screenwriter Shelley Thompson.