This week’s prompt is books by favourite authors you still haven’t read. So I’m dividing this post into sections and, as usual, putting my own spin on it. The first half is true to the prompt, but the second half is tying in with a booktube trend of predicting books on your TBR you READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA – DONAL RYAN
Donal Ryan’s novel All We Shall Know got a lot of attention a couple of years ago – for its beautiful writing style more than anything. I tried to read it and found it just wasn’t the right book at the right time for me, but I figured From a Low and Quiet Sea READ MORE
MAN BOOKER PRIZE | 2018 SHORTLIST PREDICTIONS
It’s nearly here! The Man Booker Prize shortlist is set to be revealed tomorrow, and all of us who follow book prizes are buzzing with guesses and opinions. By the time the shortlist is announced, I will have read three novels in their entirety – Warlight, From a Low and Quiet Sea and Normal READ MORE
SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE | 2018 LONGLIST
Yesterday the longlist for one of my favourite literary prizes was announced! It’s the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which is a Canadian prize for fiction. So first, for those of you who aren’t Canadian and/or haven’t heard of the prize before, here’s a little bit about it: The Giller Prize was founded in 1994 by READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY FALL TBR
I have a few posts I’m working on at the moment, so I’m going to keep this one simple and just share the covers of some of the books I’m interested in reading without providing much in the way of explanation. If you want to know more about any of the books – or READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | HIDDEN GEMS
Every once in a while an avid reader is lucky enough to pick up a lesser-known book and be completely blown away. When that happens there’s always one question that we mull over at great length: why isn’t anyone talking about this brilliant book? Here are a few of the ones I’ve come across READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I LEARNED THE MOST FROM
This week’s topic was “Back to School/Learning Freebie.” I chose the latter option, and am going with books I personally learned something important from. Because, while I loved College and think it’s safe to say I wouldn’t be the same person without having had that experience (mainly due to some amazing teachers and fortuitous READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | SOME BOOKTUBERS YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING
I’m planning to start a series on this very topic in the near future, because it’s just such a good one. There are some wonderful bookish online destinations – from BookTubers to Bloggers to bona fide books in the news – and I’m always looking to collect more. I don’t have as much time READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | WARLIGHT – MICHAEL ONDAATJE
This was, I hate to admit, my first Ondaatje book. I’ve tried a few times in the past to read him, but I’ve never made it very far. I think this was due, in part, to having watched the film adaptation of The English Patient when I was about fifteen and a bit too READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOK COMBOS
This week’s prompt is to put together a list of book pairings – two books I’d combine together into one. This is going to be hard, because I don’t really think of books that way. I’ve done my best, but I have to admit that a lot of them are pairings where one book READ MORE
MAN BOOKER PRIZE | 2018 LONGLIST
It’s that time of year again – Man Booker season! As you all know, I’m terrible at sticking to a TBR, so I’ve never managed to read more than two books from any longlist. But for some reason, this is one of the prizes that gets me excited every year, even if I know READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS THAT EARNED THE HYPE
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
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