Month: December 2017

Review: Indigenous Writes is a Must Read for Every Canadian

19 December 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Review: Indigenous Writes is a Must Read for Every Canadian

Indigenous Writes by Chelsea Vowel Format/Source: Paperback/Own Published: September 2016 Publisher: Highwater Press Length: 290 pages Genre: Non-fiction ★★★★½     I followed Vowel on Twitter for some time before I picked up her book. If you’re new to learning about Indigenous experiences, her Twitter feed may seem overwhelming. Not so her book Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nation, Inuit, and Métis Issues in Canada. Vowel writes in a casual, conversational […]

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5 Books I Read and Loved But Never Got Around to Reviewing

14 December 2017 / brief reviews / 4 Comments
5 Books I Read and Loved But Never Got Around to Reviewing

These books I enjoyed but never reviewed because I either thought they were excellent all around and couldn’t figure out how to do justice to them in a review, or because they were excellent in a very personal way, or because they were just pretty good and I couldn’t think of much to say about them. I don’t want to let these books fall through the cracks, though, because they’re […]

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Family Reads: The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor

11 December 2017 / family reads / 0 Comments
Family Reads: The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor

Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book. Why we chose Hazel Gaynors’s The Cottingley Secret Mom and I ended up selecting this book via a ‘saw it on GoodReads’ chain. I saw someone add it to their TBR, so then […]

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Review: The Child Finder = Another Excellent Sophomore Novel

9 December 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Review: The Child Finder = Another Excellent Sophomore Novel

The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: September 2017 Publisher: HarperCollins Length: 272 pages Genre: Literary fiction ★★★★½     The Child Finder focuses on the mystery of a missing child. If you stripped away the insightful prose, made the characters full of heart and heartbreak into something more generic, and ignored the histories that drive them, you’d be left with a pretty a pretty standard tale that could be the plot […]

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October and November 2017 Month in Review

2 December 2017 / month in review / 10 Comments
October and November 2017 Month in Review

This post is linked up at the Wrap Up Round Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction. End of term is upon me! Yesterday was my last lecture. I have two final projects due next week, but I’m not crunched for time. I can’t believe how fast autumn went by. I now face a whole month largely free of academic obligations. How exciting! Is that enough time to […]

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