“The Dark Half” by Stephen King

This was a very ugly, unpleasant and predictable book which I ended up skimming. I also did not like the fact that the book was self-referential. Its descriptions of the writing process were so detailed that they took me out of the story and made me think about King instead. Why do I keep going back to him? All his characters and locales have become the same. I can whiff his writing style immediately.

“Anne of the Island” by Lucy Maud Montgomery

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It was well written, and I, of course, was quite pleased when Anne and Gilbert found true love.

“How to Behave in a Crowd” by Camille Bordas

I enjoyed this book. It was a good light read for Antigua, but it was also clever and insightful about human nature. The narrator, a young teenage boy in a family of genius siblings, was appealing because he didn’t recognize his own worth until the end, when he read the last pages of his brother’s thesis. The black humour made me laugh a few times.

“Leonardo da Vinci” by Walter Isaacson

This was an interesting enough book that took me forever to finish. The author was so firm in some of his artistic opinions that he made me wonder whether or not he was qualified enough to have those opinions.

“The Last Crossing” by Guy Vanderhaeghe

I can’t honestly say that I enjoyed this book. It was much too wordy and descriptive and I actually had to skip some parts because they were so dense and meant so little to me. For example, I find detailed descriptions of battles quite boring. Nevertheless, I also have to admit that the ending was pleasantly bittersweet.