Month: July 2018

The Children’s Home + 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act [Review]

13 July 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
The Children’s Home + 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act [Review]

The Children’s Home by Charles Lambert In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflection in mirrors and the lake at the end of his garden. One day, two children, Moira and David, appear. Morgan takes them in, giving them free reign of the mansion he shares with his housekeeper Engel. Then […]

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Favourite Picture Books from my Childhood [Top 10 Tuesday]

10 July 2018 / top 10 tuesday / 0 Comments
Favourite Picture Books from my Childhood [Top 10 Tuesday]

Hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl I’m sticking with the original topic for today (TTT throwback). Previous TTT with this topic include #1 Childhood Favourites and #77 Childhood Faves. This turned out to be a bit trickier than I anticipated, as I couldn’t recall the titles of three of my favourite books. (I was close with two of them – I had Picollo and Timothy in mind and […]

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Claire King Writes an Effective 5 Year Old Narrator in The Night Rainbow [Review]

5 July 2018 / review / 0 Comments
Claire King Writes an Effective 5 Year Old Narrator in The Night Rainbow [Review]

The Night Rainbow by Claire King Format/Source: ebook/library Published: April 2013 Publisher: Bloomsbury Length: 224 pages Genre: Contemporary fiction ★★★★  Under the sweltering heat of the summer sun, five-year-old Pea – and her vivid imagination – run wild in the meadows behind her home on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Pea’s father died in an accident, and now she only has her little sister, Margot, for company. […]

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2018 Mid-Year Check In (incl. Mid-Year Freakout Book Tag)

3 July 2018 / meme, thoughts / 0 Comments
2018 Mid-Year Check In (incl. Mid-Year Freakout Book Tag)

Time for my 2018 mid-year check in! Before I get started…What’s up with ya’ll posting mid-year stuff throughout June? I accept only one date as ‘mid-year’ and refuse to post any recaps before then. 🤣 Anyway, in this post I’ll take a look at my reading and blogging goals progress, the quality of my reading compared to last year, and the Mid-Year Freakout Book Tag. Reading Goals 56/75 books read – […]

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June 2018 Month in Review

1 July 2018 / month in review / 0 Comments
June 2018 Month in Review

Well, June just flew by! Work was busy, as I did a lot of planning and promotion for the library’s summer programming as well as running three days of Maker Week activities (immensely successfully, in part due to rainy weahter), a resume workshop (it was the first workshop I’ve ever done…), and twice weekly story times (getting better each time!). Although there’s lots to do at work, work stays at […]

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