Category Archives: Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11

Review: An Ordinary Decent Criminal by Michael Van Rooy

Posted on May 25, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

After a strong start I’ve let my completion of the Canadian Book Challenge limp along for the past few months but have finally gotten around to reading the 13th and final book which allows me to (virtually) reach the summit of … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Michael Van Rooy | 5 Comments

Review: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

Posted on March 14, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

The Brutal Telling is my face-to-face bookclub’s choice this month and I’m also using it as the 12th of 13 books I need to read to complete the Canadian Book Challenge #4. In the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Louise Penny | 9 Comments

Review: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Posted on January 9, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

My second reading goal for 2011 (other than reducing my TBR) is to read an occasional novel outside my preferred crime fiction genre. And I couldn’t really complete a Canadian Book Challenge without including a title by the woman often … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Margaret Atwood | 11 Comments

Review: The Edge by Dick Francis

Posted on December 20, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

I know Francis wasn’t Canadian but I am including this book as the 10th in my Canadian Book Challenge because it is not only set there but celebrates the natural beauty of the country via its depiction of a great train journey … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Dick Francis | 4 Comments

Review: Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt

Posted on December 17, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

I read Giles Blunt’s first crime novel as the 9th book in my 13-book Canadian Book Challenge. Detective John Cardinal of the Algonquin Bay Police Department worked the Katie Pine case as though she had been kidnapped and probably murdered … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Giles Blunt | 6 Comments

Books of the Month – November 2010

Posted on December 2, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

That Was Then November was another good reading month for me as I finished 14 books. My favourite was the second installment of the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths: The Janus Stone. Happily the third book by Griffiths is due … Continue reading →

Posted in Aussie Readers Summer Reading, books of the month, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Elly Griffiths, Global Reading Challenge 2010 | 4 Comments

Review: A Colder Kind of Death by Gail Bowen

Posted on November 22, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

The 8th book I will count towards the current Canadian Book Challenge is the fourth in its series and won the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. It has been six years since Joanne Kilbourn’s husband was bashed … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Gail Bowen | 10 Comments

Review: Negative Image by Vicki Delany

Posted on October 31, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

The 7th book which will count towards my Canadian Book Challenge is the newest installment of Vicki Delany’s Constable Molly Smith series and is due for publication on 2 Nov 2010. This pushes me over the half-way point of the … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Vicki Delany | 8 Comments

Review: The Dead of Midnight by Catherine Hunter

Posted on October 23, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

This is the sixth book I’m counting towards the challenge which requires me to read 13 Canadian books by 1 July 2011. It is yet another great book that I probably wouldn’t have stumbled across if it weren’t for participating in a … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Catherine Hunter | 4 Comments

Review: The Taken by Inger Ash Wolfe

Posted on October 12, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

This is the fifth book for my Canadian Book Challenge and is the second novel from an author whose use of a pseudonym has caused more discussion than the books in some quarters. I’m happy to read the books, whoever … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Inger Ash Wolfe | 5 Comments