Category: Humour • The Miramichi Reader

The Sign on My Father’s House by Tom Moore

September 6, 2019

This is the funny and at times heartbreaking tale of a young man's rough ride into adulthood. Felix Ryan is on a journey to discover who he is and where he is headed. He moves from rural Newfoundland to the hectic life of Memorial University in the late 1960s.

Even Weirder Than Before by Susie Taylor

August 1, 2019July 6, 2019

Susie Taylor's Even Weirder Than Before is an enjoyable chronicle of Daisy Radcliffe's life journey from Grade 8 through the end of high school in the late 80s/early 90s.

A Philosopher, a Psychologist, and an Extraterrestrial Walk into a Chocolate Bar by Jass Richards

June 22, 2019June 22, 2019

Spike, a psychologist and activist, and Jane, a philosopher and writer, leave their dead-end temp jobs in Toronto and head for Paris--on their lunch break--by car, stopping frequently to stock up on chocolate. Along the way, they meet X, a lost extraterrestrial.

Bad Ideas by Missy Marston

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019

Bad Ideas is a great read, a well-balanced mix of pathos and humour that I rated as four stars at Goodreads.

An Exile’s Perfect Letter by Larry Mathews

November 13, 2018

Sixty-two-year-old English professor Hugh Norman is getting ready to retire and just going through the motions. He’s detached, irreverent, and quite pleased with himself. But then he learns of a long-lost friend’s sudden death, and shockingly discovers a body while walking through a city park

Deli Meat by Tom Halford

July 7, 2019September 22, 2018

At one point in Deli Meat (2018, Crooked Cat Books), Bree Arms tells her husband Todd that she is reading a book called, um, Deli Meat. She tells him it “is weird as hell and twice as strange,” which is a good summing up of the book itself. It was a very delightful type of weirdness and strangeness that I found between the blood-red covers of author Tom Halford’s first book.… Continue reading