A Properly Unhaunted Place Offers A Creative Twist on Ghost Stories [Review]

26 April 2018 / review / 0 Comments
A Properly Unhaunted Place Offers A Creative Twist on Ghost Stories [Review]

A Properly Unhaunted Place by William Alexander Illustrator: Kelly Murphy Format/Source: Hardcover/library Published: August 2017 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Length: 192 pages Genre: Middle grade speculative Cybils 2017 finalist ★★★★½       At the start of A Properly Unhaunted Place, […]

Oji-Cree Elder Ma-Nee Chacaby’s Extraordinary Life Story [Review]

23 April 2018 / review / 2 Comments
Oji-Cree Elder Ma-Nee Chacaby’s Extraordinary Life Story [Review]

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer Format/Source: Paperback/Purchased Published: May 2016 Publisher: University of Manitoba Press Length: 264 pages Genre: Memoir ★★★★     The subtitle of this aptly describes its content. Born […]

Books That Take Place in Another Country [Top 10 Tuesday]

17 April 2018 / top 10 tuesday / 0 Comments
Books That Take Place in Another Country [Top 10 Tuesday]

This week’s topic is a freebie, so I chose a topic from a few weeks ago that I liked but didn’t have time to do. Books that take place in another country was the TTT on March 23. I ‘ve […]

2nd Annual Book Blogger Awards

14 April 2018 / Uncategorized / 0 Comments
2nd Annual Book Blogger Awards

Thanks very much to Briana @ Pages Unbound for nominating me in the middle grade or younger category and bringing this award to my attention! Joce @ Write Through the Night hosts this award. This award consists of two rounds […]

Why Labyrinth Lost Disappointed Me [Review]

12 April 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Why Labyrinth Lost Disappointed Me [Review]

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives. Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid […]