Books

Do you drool at the sight of books? Do you make weird noises when you open one? When you’re away from the book, do you think about it all the time? Do you make weekend plans for some one-on-one time? Do you caress the paper? You may just be in love with books. Good thing…

Recently my new pal Ashley – of The Anthropology of Giving – sent me a lovely children’s book called Sadly the Owl: An Untold Tale by Linnie Von Sky with illustrations by Ashley O’Mara. Since mental health is something I really like to discuss, this was such a lovely thing to receive. Mental health can be…

I’ve got two new YA reviews for you today! I have been reading a lot of YA lately (so much so that I am craving reading adult fiction right now) and these two have been part of it. One is set in present-day reality in Toronto, and the other is set in 1800s England with…

Woohoo, this is my first time blogging as part of a blog tour. Appropriate! Thank you to Raincoast Books for letting me tag along. Here you’ll find an honest review of Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, as well as a short Q&A with her. ~~ Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, via St. Martin’s Griffin, out now….

Hell hath frozen over – I bought a Kindle. Yeah, I know. For years now, I have always stuck to my notions of: *I am a paper girl through and through — I love the smell, I love the way it feels to hold a book and flip pages, I love dog-earing pages, I love…

If you know me at all, you know I’m a pretty big Harry Potter fan. I started reading them soon after they came out – I was probably in grade 5. The obsession lasted until I was about in college, and now I maintain a healthy level of fandom 😉 (Seriously, there was an era…