This week’s prompt is a genre freebie, so I’ve decided to focus on memoirs. Partly because there are lots of good ones, partly because I’ve read so many good ones in the past couple of years, and partly because there’s so much variability in formats, themes and styles within that genre. Here are my READ MORE
Month: February 2023
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LONG WAY DOWN – JASON REYNOLDS & DANICA NOVGORODOFF
I don’t know how, but somehow I managed to pick up several graphic novels (after not having read any for years) that were just so impressive, poignant and important. This was, obviously, one of those books. This is the graphic novel version of a novel by the same name written by Jason Reynolds. It’s READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FIRST WEBSITE I REMEMBER VISITING
Well this one should be easy – I don’t. I have zero recollection of the first time I sat down at a computer to logon to the internet, and no clue at all whatsoever what I was doing on it when I did. Now, in my defense, I’m not exactly a kid. We’re talking READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | FAVOURITE HEROINES
I love books with strong female characters. I love it even more when they push boundaries are live in their weirdness or kick some ass. I like when characters in general surprise me, and that goes double for heroines (self-identified included). Molly Weasley, because she’s a complete badass and a great mum The READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW – A.J. FINN
Have you ever heard so much about a book, for so long, seen it get turned into a movie, and then finally gotten around to reading it and had your main reaction to be, “…..huh?” Of course you have. You’re all book people here. So yeah, that was my experience with this book. I READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY FAVOURITE FOOD
I feel like I did this topic last year. And I don’t think I had a great answer then either. I don’t have a specific favourite food, but I do like Christmas dinner as my family did it. Mostly for the roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings because yum. But I also like it because READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | CHARACTERS I LOVE
Any of you who have been around here for a while know I’m not a fan of romance, I don’t often get book crushes, and I am not often overly impressed by bookish matches. I don’t hate them, they just aren’t generally the highlight of the book for me. So rather than focusing on READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BOMBS ON AUNT DAINTY – JUDITH KERR
The second book in the Out of the Hitler Time series, this book jumps forward in time from where When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit left off. In this book the family are now living in a boarding house in London during the early days of the Blitz. Things are tough – not just because READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BOOKS THAT PLEASANTLY SURPRISED ME
I actually wrote a whole post about this last year, because there were several books I read in 2022 that really did surprise me. I’ll share a couple of my top picks below, though, in case you don’t want to click over: Both of these had difficult main characters, but READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | INTERESTING 2023 DEBUT BOOKS
Some research was required to put together a list of debut books that are coming out in 2023, but once I embarked on said research, I discovered that I had actually already heard of several – I just didn’t know they were debuts at the time! Here are some I’m either interested in reading READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BORDERS – THOMAS KING & NATASHA DONOVAN
I adored this book. It was one of my top reads of last year, and also one of my favourite graphic novels (probably either #1 or #2). This is the story of a young boy and his mother who are Blackfoot and live on a reservation in what we think of as Canada. Our READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WHAT DO YOU EAT IN A DAY?
Okay, so I know this is just a random idea for a post, and a lot of people really like talking about what they eat, especially if they’re creative with food or like to eat adventurously. But I do have bit of a cringe response to it, I have to admit. It can be READ MORE