books ~ zines ~ mail ~ crafts
Zine Haul! Fall is the time of zine fairs in the Toronto area – on October 17 I tabled for Static Cloud at Canzine, and on November 7 I tabled at the Hamilton Feminist Zine Fair. I love both of these fairs a lot, and they both generally bring very different kinds of zines. While…
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…
Welcome to a new series for the blog called Stationery Talk, in which I post about some of my favourite new stationery finds. Let’s kick right off then, shall we? Pusheen could be one of my life’s mascots (there are too many, like, I’d want Puppycat too!). She is adorable online, so it was only natural…
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…
I am so excited to be running this swap again. Everybody likes notebooks and pens! I started the notebook & pen swap last year as a fun prompt for NaNoWriMo people, though starting it in November and people not getting packages in December due to holiday times was not the smartest idea. So, we’re now…