Updating My Review Archive [10th Blogiversary Celebration]

16 March 2024 / thoughts / 12 Comments
Updating My Review Archive [10th Blogiversary Celebration]

Welcome to my first post commerating 10 years of book blogging! You’ll see a few of these posts throughout 2024. I’m taking this blogiversary as an opportunity to reflect on a variety of aspects of my blogging history and present. […]

1 Wayward Children and 4 Middle Grade [2024 Review Round Up #1]

11 March 2024 / brief reviews / 5 Comments
1 Wayward Children and 4 Middle Grade [2024 Review Round Up #1]

Overview Somewhere at the end of December, I remember considering the idea of doing mini review round ups throughout 2024… I did a post in January with all the books I read in 2023 but didn’t review. This is basically […]

February 2024 Month In Review

3 March 2024 / month in review / 17 Comments
February 2024 Month In Review

For this month’s life update, I have more work changes. While my acting term ended on Fri February 9, optional overtime began a week later on Mon February 19. I’m currently doing 5-10 hours/week of OT. Not sure how long […]

Tolkien and Alterity edited by Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor [Review]

27 February 2024 / brief reviews / 4 Comments
Tolkien and Alterity edited by Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor [Review]

Tolkien and Alterityedited by Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette KisorSource: paperback/ownPublished: Aug 2017Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature)Length: 261 pages Genre: Literary criticismTarget Age: Adult (suitable for 17+ due to academic language) Tolkien and Alterity features essays dedicated to Jane Chance, who has been publishing on Tolkien […]

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns [Family Reads]

17 February 2024 / family reads / 4 Comments
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns [Family Reads]

Why we chose Jessica Johns’ Bad Cree While we were driving home from a winter activity during Christmas holidays, we heard a countdown on CBC Radio of the top selling Canadian books of 2023. Bad Cree came in at number […]