So here’s the deal. Today marks about a week of a heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, and right now the temperature is about 30 degrees. Yes, I know, that’s not really that hot, people live in warmer climates all over the world. But I’m not accustomed to it, and it has rendered me completely READ MORE
Month: July 2018
TOP TEN TUESDAY | READING ASSOCIATIONS
This week’s post topic is books that have a strong sensory experience associated with them – books that have strong association to a time or place or activity in your life. I’ve got a few of these, plus two books that were more evocative than associative – in other words, rather than remembering where READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | SHORT READS
This week’s prompt is “Favourite Novellas/Short Stories.” I don’t read that much short fiction, so my list of faves is short. It also includes a couple of non-fiction picks, sorry. So my tweak this week is to also feature some short works I’ve heard good things about or that have piqued my interest. Favourite READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES – SHIRLEY JACKSON
I discovered this book thanks to Acacia Ives, who mentioned it in one of her reading wrap-ups. I’d heard of Shirley Jackson, of course, but since most of her stories are of the terrifying variety, and I am a wimp through and through, I discounted her as one of those authors I’d never be READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BEST OF 2018 SO FAR
Well, I’ve only read 17 books so far this year, so I don’t have enough to pick ten top books. So instead, I’m giving you the top books I’ve read, and a few I’ve started but not yet finished that I think are going to qualify! Top books read so far this year: READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS – GERALD DURRELL
This is an interesting memoir in that it is part childhood recollection and family saga, part travel memoir, and part the origins of a budding naturalist. I didn’t expect to be overly interested in Durrell’s exploration of the natural world he discovered when his family packed up and moved to Corfu. But his own READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | 🇨🇦 SOME AWESOME CANADIANS! 🇨🇦
This week’s prompt was to pick ten books with red, white and blue covers for Independence Day in the US. As I’m neither American nor in much of a mood to celebrate America at the moment (no shade to my American readers or friends – this is more of an overall grumpiness regarding the READ MORE