This week’s topic is “Books That Take Place In Another Country.” I haven’t historically done the best job of reading my way around the world, and it’s something I know I need to work on (I also need to read more from my own country). But over the years I have read a selection READ MORE
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CANADA READS REVIEW | THE MARROW THIEVES – CHERIE DIMALINE
This is a post-apocalyptic young adult novel that takes place in a world where climate change has destroyed the land. The coastlines have moved inwards, waterways have become polluted, and populations have become more and more dense as people were forced to migrate inland. In this world, white people have lost the ability to READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY SPRING TBR
Right now I’m still trying to read as many of the Canada Reads 2018 contenders as I can before the debates that start March 26th (for more info on the 2018 picks, go here, for more info on Canada Reads, go here), so those are top of my list. Swiftly followed by the books READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS THAT WEREN’T WHAT I EXPECTED
I’m tired and very behind this week, so without any further preamble, I’m going to jump right into it. Here are the books that surprised me (for better or for worst) the most: Another Brooklyn was far more poetic and deeply emotionally affecting than I had expected it to be. Though it deals READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WOULD TAKE TO A DESERT ISLAND WITH ME
This week’s topic is books I’ll never get sick of re-reading, and in order to really consider this prompt, I imagined a situation where these are the only books I have, possibly for the rest of my life. Would I still feel that they stood up to that kind of deep reading? Would they READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | HUNGER – ROXANE GAY
I’m a little ashamed to admit that this was my first foray into the work of Roxane Gay. I don’t know how, but I have somehow managed to miss her previously published works – though they all sound like they are exactly my kind of books. I was drawn to this because of the READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I’M JUST NOT THAT INTO
There are so many books out there waiting to be read. SO MANY. And they all have devoted fans, many of whom share that fandom in public forums – like book blogs and BookTube. And the problem with that is that if I hear one person enthuse about a book that just isn’t really READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | A FEW TAKES ON LOVE
As you know if you’ve been around this neck of the woods for any length of time, I’m not really much for romance. So asking me to share my favourite romantic books is an exercise in futility. So instead, I’m going to do a few different riffs on the general theme and see where READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM – JOAN DIDION
This was my first foray into Didion’s writing, and now I’m wondering what took me so long. Slouching Towards Bethlehem seemed to be a good place to start, comprised as it is of a selection of short essays on various topics. She covers everything from a murder case to hippies in San Francisco to READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | ANOTHER BROOKLYN – JACQUELINE WOODSON
I’ve been meaning to read Jacqueline Woodson for a very long time. Her memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, has been sitting on my shelf, waiting for me to get around to it, for years. I’m very grateful that this book was on sale, and that I decided to pick it up one day because of READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BAD BLOOD – JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
I’m a huge fan of the TV show Criminal Minds, and this book is like a YA cross between that and The Mentalist. It’s about a group of teenagers with “special” talents – reading people, profiling, analyzing information and detecting lies. It’s a premise I absolutely love and the plots have been real page-turners. READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I DIDN’T GET TO IN 2017 (BUT TOTALLY WILL IN 2018… MAYBE)
Well this week’s topic should be easy, considering the massive TBR I amassed in the past 6 months! Catch me another day and this list might be totally different, but these are the ones that stand out from a quick glance at my shelves tonight! READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LOST FOR WORDS – STEPHANIE BUTLAND
I picked this book up because I’d had trouble sticking with anything for a little while after a few books that failed to really impress me, and I wanted something light. I looked at the cover, saw it was about a bookstore (in England) and thought, great, that’ll do. I didn’t expect much. I READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | NEW-TO-ME AUTHORS I DISCOVERED IN 2017
I didn’t have a very impressive reading year, in no small part because I didn’t start reading again until halfway through. This TTT is a slightly harder topic since this asking me to pick a third of the authors I read. So I’m going to start with the ones I would have still picked READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | GROUNDED – SETH STEVENSON
I love reading travel memoirs. I’ve been a huge fan of the genre since reading Under the Tuscan Sun and several Bill Bryson books in high school. I haven’t read much in the genre for a few years, but felt like it was time to pick it up again – in no small part READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY 2018 WISHLIST AND TBR
I’m not super in tune with which boooks are going to be coming out in 2018 yet, but I have stumbled across a few I’m looking forward to! Here are the ones I can’t wait to get my hands on, as well as a few books I didn’t get to this year that I’d READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I HOPE SANTA BRINGS ME
There are so many books I’d be absolutely THRILLED to find under the tree, but here are the ones I’m coveting the most at this particular moment (it will probably have changed by the time you’re reading this!). Non-fiction Graphic Novels and Picture-Based Books READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | RESTLESS – WILLIAM BOYD
I picked this book up because it’s a spy thriller with a twist – it’s the story of Ruth, a young woman discovering that her mother spent years working as a spy for the British government during the early years of WWII. Cool premise, right? It also won the Costa Novel Award in 2006, READ MORE