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It’s that time of year again! Time to look over the list of books I read this year on Goodreads and remember what I thought about them. Time to think ‘why did I read that???’ Time to think about what kinds of books I want to be reading right now. Time to just talk about…
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, via Penguin Random House, out now. [I received this book from Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] Think of all the news stories you ingest about missing people or brutal murders. Do you ever think about what the families…
I love finding books about mail out in the wild. So I did a double-take when I saw Write Back Soon! by Karen Benke sitting on a table in a paper store called Mixed Media I happened to visit while in Hamilton last weekend (great store!). I barely knew what it was about before I took it…
Hey guys! I’m trying a new thing, and that thing is writing some shorter book reviews and combining them (if they somehow relate to one another). This helps me talk about all the books I’m reading more than I could before. Plus, I’m going to pair each book with some sort of paper-related activity, just…
In Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman, heads to the Big Apple in the 1950s after the darker days of World War Two in Ireland. There, she meets Tony, an Italian, and quickly falls for him. But after a while, a family tragedy in Ireland forces her to return home, where she eventually…
(Hi all! Sorry the blog’s been a bit empty these days. Work and baseball have been taking up all of my time. Now that at least baseball is over – don’t talk to me about it! – I’m hopefully back to regularly scheduled programming.) I follow a lot of bookish people on Instagram. I adore…
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness, via HarperTeen, out now. [I received this book from HarperCollins Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] What if you’re not the Chosen One? What if your life is still ridiculous and dramatic, but you’re just a…