The world of books is never boring. (Almost) every week I’ll discuss a different topic related to books, often inspired by or in response to what’s going on in the online book community (or something I’ve seen another blogger talk about). I call this Book Thoughts on Thursday. Feel free to weigh in with your READ MORE
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TOP TEN TUESDAY | SEQUELS I CAN’T WAIT TO GET
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Sequels I Can’t Wait to Get. Hmmm. I am not currently reading much in the way of series – they’re just so much investment and I hate the waiting. So I’m including sequels that are already out, but that I haven’t READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #47
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 I don’t buy any books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some I haven’t READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL – LENA DUNHAM
“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told,” writes Lena Dunham, and it certainly takes guts to share the stories that make up her first book, Not That Kind of Girl. These are stories about getting your butt touched by your boss, READ MORE
BOOK THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY | TO KNOW WHAT A PERSON READS IS TO KNOW A PERSON
The world of books is never boring. Every week I’ll discuss a different topic related to books, often inspired by or in response to what’s going on in the online book community (or something I’ve seen another blogger talk about). I call this Book Thoughts on Thursday. Feel free to weigh in with your own READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WANT TO RE-READ
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books I Want to Re-Read. Oooooh boy. You guys might want to settle in with some coffee, light snacks, maybe even canned goods… cos this might take a while. 1. The ENTIRE Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling Over and READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #45
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 I don’t buy any books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some I haven’t READ MORE
BOOK THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY | GENDERED READING
The world of books is never boring. Every week I’ll discuss a different topic related to books, often inspired by or in response to what’s going on in the online book community (or something I’ve seen another blogger talk about). I call this Book Thoughts on Thursday. Feel free to weigh in with your own READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAY | #38
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 READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MY SALINGER YEAR – JOANNA RAKOFF
Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, READ MORE
BOOK THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY | REMEMBERING WHY I LOVE THE BOOKISH INTERWEBS
The world of books is never boring. There are movies being made based on our favourite stories, raging debates over the relative merit of books and series, book-related events and a never-ending plethora of bookish topics I just like thinking (and talking) about. While I absolutely adore my regular link-ups and have no intention of READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | NEW SERIES I WANT TO START
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten New Series I Want to Start. I’m not that big on series usually, but when I started reading Young Adult fiction more series hit my radar. Here are some of the first that come to mind: READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #43 (OR THE ONE WITH *ALL* THE PRE-ORDERS)
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
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
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
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