My reading at the moment is an abysmal failure, so it’s hard for me to seriously consider what I’m going to read this summer. My TBR is overflowing (literally, it has exceeded the bedside table and is now growing on the floor) and I don’t know where to start. So in this post I’m READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOK THAT MAKE ME WANT TO HIT THE ROAD
Well let’s face it, it’s never taken much to get me dreaming of hopping on a plane to jet off to somewhere new and exciting. So there are plenty of books that have made me either really want to visit somewhere, or really want to go back there. There have also been several books READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | WHEN I HIT YOU – MEENA KANDASAMY
This is another of the books on this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction long and shortlists. It’s also the one that, after watching many BookTubers review some or all of the books on the list, I felt was a front-runner to win this year’s prize (it didn’t, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire did). I decided READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | PLACES I ENCOUNTERED IN BOOKS THAT I DO/DON’T WANT TO VISIT
I’m back with yet another of my not-quite-the-prompt Top Ten Tuesday posts! This week the prompt was “Bookish Worlds I’d Want to/Never Want to Live In.” I don’t read much that takes place in a whole other world than the one we live in – except, of course, at Hogwarts. (Which, in case you’re READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE – GAIL HONEYMAN
Brief disclaimer: I’ve been working on this review for a month now, and it’s one of the hardest I’ve written. It’s not perfect. I may come back and try to tidy it up a bit in the future. But for now, I just wanted to get something up so I can move on to READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I STRUGGLED TO FINISH & BOOKS I’M SCARED TO TRY
As usual, I’m putting my own spin on this week’s topic – originally “Books I Disliked/Hated but Am Really Glad I Read (maybe just for bragging rights)” – because I don’t often finish books I dislike, even for bragging rights. And if I do (usually because I’ve been sent it for review), I usually develop READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | FUTURE RELEASES I WOULD KILL TO GET MY HANDS ON EARLY
I’m behind on… well, all my reading… but there are some upcoming releases I am really dying to get my hands on despite my already massive TBR. Some of them, thanks to The Book Depository being situated in the UK, I have or will soon have. But others just aren’t available to little old READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THE ONE WHERE I IGNORE THE PROMPT COMPLETELY
This week’s topic for TTT was “Frequently Used Words In [Insert Genre/Age Group] Titles.” There’s nothing wrong with this prompt except that it works better for genre fiction or YA genred fiction, neither of which I’m really that into at the moment. My reading tastes are pretty varied, but the majority of what I’m READ MORE
MY WEEK ON WEDNESDAY | #36 (APRIL 12-18, 2018)
I’ve been having a really hard time with my reading lately, and it’s been weeks since I’ve managed to finish a book. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading. It just means I have been picking up and putting down a lot of books. So here are the books I’ve tried to read, READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I HAVE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT I FEEL LIKE I’VE READ THEM
The past year of reading has been really, really frustrating for me. Part of being a reader is the ever-growing TBR full of amazing books that you either feel like you should have read but haven’t or really want to read but haven’t gotten to yet. There’s no way around it, there are just READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | UNDER COVER – CHRIS RYAN
I adore this series. It’s Young Adult, and it’s a series of espionage thrillers. It’s completely unrealistic – often bordering on absurd – but it is just so much fun to read. This is the fifth book in the Agent 21 series, and the first that doesn’t centre on Zak Darke, a teenager who READ MORE
CANADA READS 2018 | FINALE & WINNER
Today was the final day of the Canada Reads 2018 debates! If you’ve missed the past few days you can find all three videos and my thoughts on the progress of the debates here. If you missed the finale, here’s the video (and watch to the end because my question made it into the READ MORE
CANADA READS 2018 | DAYS 1, 2 & 3
Canada Reads 2018 is now well underway! The first three days of debates are behind us, and with them three books have already been voted off (amidst a lot of drama and controversy), and we are down to our two finalists. Here’s what happened, in case you missed it! If you have no idea READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | READING THE WORLD
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
CANADA READS REVIEW | FORGIVENESS – MARK SAKAMOTO
This is the true story of Mark Sakamoto’s grandparents’ experiences during WWII and how those experiences shaped their lives – but also how they chose to take back control in spite of them. The first section of the book alternates between two stories. His maternal grandfather’s experiences as a young soldier sent to Hong READ MORE
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