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Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam Synopsis from Penguin Random House Canada: It’s an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida, translated from the Japanese by KA Yoshida & David Mitchell Synopsis from Penguin Random House Canada: The founding of the colonies; the Revolution; the growth of New York as a major port and trading centre; the Civil War; the Gilded Age; the explosion of immigration and the corruption of Tammany Hall; the rise of New York as a great world city in the early 20th-century; the trials of World War II, the tumult of the 1960s; the near-demise of the city in the 1970s; its roaring rebirth in the 1990s; culminating in the World Trade Center attacks at the beginning of the new century. Synopsis from Penguin Random House Canada: In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether.

It’s officially fall, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it. The Toronto International Film Festival ended last Sunday and I’m a bit sad. The Mountain Between Us, and In the Fade when they hit theatres. Also, I just ordered Anne’s new book Reading People from my local bookstore.

This week, I spent more time than I would like to admit googling the upcoming solar eclipse. This feature is pretty cool: a team of NASA-funded scientists will be chasing the moon’s shadow in two WB-57F research jets. Claire shared the recipe for her version of Rhum Corner’s The Jungle Bird cocktail! It’s an engaging and devastating, yet empowering and hopeful story about the captain of a high school cheerleading team who is raped at summer camp.

As much as I hate to admit it, the final days of summer are upon us. This summer feels different; I’m juggling work and school and finding time for reading has proved challenging