Pauline Finch is a longtime resident of Kitchener, Ontario (Canada), where she attended Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo. While doing graduate work, she accidentally landed part-time work with the local newspaper, which became full-time and lasted nearly 23 years.

Her one claim to fame is that in 1991 she became the first person in the history of that paper to electronically file a news story. Not long after, she was among a large contingent of reporters “fired with money” during the corporate downsizing waves of the late 1990s.

For the past 20 years, she has been a freelance writer and editor whose clients include novel and textbook authors, church publications, corporate executives, academics, theologians and non-profit groups.

Among her avocations, she is a serious amateur flutist who began playing in 1964 but by 2007 had figured out that lessons are a good idea. She plays in the Waterloo Flute Choir where she learned alto and bass flutes as well, the Waterloo Concert Band as lead piccolo, and in a permanent local flute quartet. She is also a lifelong recorder-player who enjoys every size of the instrument from bass to soprano, and plays in several small socially distanced ensembles. For the past decade, she has studied organ and enjoys keyboards and pedals in harmony.

Pauline was introduced to Bookreporter.com by the late Robert Finn, a fine reviewer from Cleveland, OH, who was a wonderful career mentor when she most needed one.

Reviews by Pauline Finch

The World's Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover's Adventures

by Josh Hanagarne - Nonfiction

Although he wouldn’t officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh Hanagarne was six years old when he first began exhibiting symptoms. By the time he was 20, the young Mormon had reached his towering adult height of 6’7” when his Tourette’s tics escalated to nightmarish levels. Despite undergoing treatments that failed miserably, Josh persevered to marry and earn a degree in Library Science.

The Things That Need Doing: A Memoir

by Sean Manning - Nonfiction

The Speed of Dark

by Elizabeth Moon - Fiction, Science Fiction

The Crimson Portrait

by Jody Shields - Fiction

Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on the battlefields of what has been declared the first World War...
But the isolated and eerie stillness in which she grieves is shattered when her home is transformed into a bustling military hospital to serve the war's most irreparably injured.

The Alchemist's Daughter

by Katharine McMahon - Fiction, Historical Fiction

There are long-held secrets at the manor house in Buckinghamshire, England, where Emilie Selden has been raised in near isolation by her father. A student of Isaac Newton, John Selden believes he can turn his daughter into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. The Alchemist's Daughter is a gripping, evocative tale. Set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century London society, it is an unforgettable story of one woman's journey through a world of mystery, passion, and obsession.