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Caught frustrated me, made me smile, awed me, but mostly frustrated me. Lisa Moore is a fantastic writer, and I think her skills are far better suited to a meditation like February than an ostensible adventure like Caught. Don't get me wrong - the writing in this book is astonishing. Moore has an abi Leggi tutto

Don’t wait to pick up a copy of Lisa Moore’s new novel, Caught. It may strike you as a departure in terms of subject matter from her earlier work—if not for its high literary quality it might inadvertently be slotted simply as a detective novel--but anyone who loves good writing will revel in the no Leggi tutto

One thing that bothered me about this book was that I couldn't understand why anyone would want to go all the way down to Columbia to smuggle pot into Vancouver. Come on, really. There's practically a grow op on every block in Vancouver. This would make as much sense as Alberta buying its beef from

This book started out with some promise, and surprisingly, the author kept my attention throughout most of it. But I never felt like I got to know or understand the characters. And the dialogue was super distracting. People talked in a kind of shorthand that was hard to follow. Plus, the author didn Leggi tutto

I remember encountering two conflicting ideas a few years ago. First, someone quoted an old professor who had said something like, "There are too many great books in the world, more than you can read in a lifetime, to waste your time reading merely good books." I armed myself with this philosophy as Leggi tutto

I just could not get into this story. I know Lisa Moore's a fantastic writer, so I figure it's me and not the book itself. Even with ties to Newfoundland--often connection enough for me--the characters didn't catch my fancy. I know Moore's February won Canada Reads a few years back, so I'll give tha Leggi tutto