Month: January 2020

A Monster Lurks Around Eerie-on-Sea [MG Review]

14 January 2020 / review / 4 Comments
A Monster Lurks Around Eerie-on-Sea [MG Review]

Malamander by Thomas Taylor Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy – especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No […]

Favourite Reads of the Decade

10 January 2020 / thoughts / 14 Comments
Favourite Reads of the Decade

Preamble I know I’m a bit late for this type of post… My blogging schedule was already full up when I got the idea to write this type of post. I started using Goodreads in 2011 – hard to believe […]

Two #OwnVoices Indigenous Novels [MG Review]

8 January 2020 / brief reviews / 2 Comments
Two #OwnVoices Indigenous Novels [MG Review]

Biref thoughts on two debut #ownvoices Indigenous middle grade novels – I Can Make This Promise (contemporary) and The Ghost Collector (speculative fiction).

Wrapping Up 2019, Looking Forward 2020

3 January 2020 / thoughts / 8 Comments
Wrapping Up 2019, Looking Forward 2020

Welcome to my tenth (!) annual ‘Wrapping Up, Looking Forward’ post. In this post, I take a general look back at how I did with my goals in 2019, and set some new goals for 2020. Posting and Reading Overview […]

December 2019 Month In Review

1 January 2020 / month in review / 4 Comments
December 2019 Month In Review

Books read, posts written, and plenty of upcoming releases and events in January.