Books

Let’s talk about book clubs. When you reach your mid-twenties, you may start to notice that everyone around you starts to talk about their book clubs. What they’re reading now, asking for recommendations for what to read next, the dish that they need to make for tomorrow night’s meeting, the woman who keeps picking the…

My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga, HarperCollins TW: Suicide, depression, death “We have to do it on April 7th. That date isn’t negotiable. Message me for more information.” Aysel (pronounced Uh-zel), a 16-year-old who is consumed by suicidal thoughts, frequents a web forum called Smooth Passages while she procrastinates at a miserable…

Are you a girl who likes to read? Do you like seeing illustrations of girls with books? Obviously. Here are some prints you can buy to display your love in your own home. Put prints next to bookshelves for more dramatic effect.

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, Knopf Canada This is a very hard review to write. All I want to talk about is the ending, but I can’t give it away. But this is easy to say: if you like young adult lit about love, loss and mental health, then you will like this book….

I read 50 books in 2014. That’s probably more than I’ve read any other year. And for that fact, I am super proud I did the challenge – both the #50BookPledge and Goodreads’ Reading Challenge – because I ingested so many words, and that is exciting to me. But I don’t think I’ll do this…