This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want to Visit. Only ten? Oh geez. Okay, here goes! 1. Tuscany I read Under the Tuscan Sun in high school and have been dreaming about Italy ever since. 2. London I’ve been to London, READ MORE
Year: 2014
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | SHE IS NOT INVISIBLE – MARCUS SEDGWICK
Laureth Peak’s father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers – a skill at which she’s remarkably talented. Her secret: she is blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her 7-year-old brother Benjamin are thrust into a mystery that takes them to New York City where surviving will take READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #42
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAY | #35
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What did you recently finish reading? What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE
VANCOUVER BOOK FAIR | AKA BEAUTIFUL BOOKS I COULDN’T AFFORD
Last weekend one of my best friends, Jaime, invited me to head to the Vancouver Book Fair – Western Canada’s only book fair featuring sellers who specialize in antiquarian and rare books and art. I’d never been before and wasn’t really sure what to expect – but hey, say books and I come a-runnin’! The READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS FOR READERS WHO LIKE CHARACTER-DRIVEN NOVELS
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books For Readers Who Like Character-Driven Novels. This is a timely topic for me, because I feel like I’ve read several books that fit this criterion recently. Some of these may seem surprising! Hearts and Minds – Amanda READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | FALLOUT – SADIE JONES
A deeply affecting love story set in the gritty yet magnificent theatre world of 1970s London by the award-winning, bestselling Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests and The Outcase Luke Kanowski is a young playwright: intense, magnetic, fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East. Arriving in London, he meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #41
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
MONTHLY WRAP-UP | SEPTEMBER 2014
On the face of it, this has not been an impressive reading month for me. I only checked off three completed books: But WAIT. Don’t judge quite yet. I also started and did not finish more books than usual last month. Some I got quite far in. So it’s not like I wasn’t reading. Honest. READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS THAT WERE HARD FOR ME TO READ
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books That Were Hard for Me to Read. This can be because they were complex, long, on a difficult topic, not my cup of tea or just books I felt like I had to read and that made me resist. Whatever READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE VACATIONERS – EMMA STRAUB
An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca. For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #40
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
WWW Wednesday | #34
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What did you recently finish reading? What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY FALL TBR LIST
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR List. I assume this means NEW books coming out in fall, so I’ll stick to those but include a few that just came out! The Children Act – Ian McEwan The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters READ MORE
THE SUNDAY [BOOK & MOVIE] REVIEW | THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU – JONATHAN TROPPER
Let’s start with the exciting part. Thanks to Karen over at One More Page who frantically tweeted me last weekend telling me to wake up and get my act in gear, I was able (just barely) to enter Indigo Events‘ contest for tickets to an advance screening of This Is Where I Leave You. Which READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #39
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAY | #33
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What did you recently finish reading? What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | AUTHORS I’VE ONLY READ ONE BOOK BY & NEED TO READ MORE
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Authors I’ve Only Read One Book From & Need To Read MORE! Because I have heinous allergies and am about to go to bed early, I’m not going to extrapolate – but I will give you a list! Jonathan Tropper Amanda READ MORE