Category: family reads

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva [Family Reads]

28 January 2018 / family reads / 0 Comments
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva [Family Reads]

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 Alexandra Oliva’s The Last One We had both independently seen it at Chapters and found the mash up of a reality TV survival show with an actual dystopia happening beyond […]

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 […]

Family Reads: Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of A Fist by Sunil Yapa

19 August 2017 / family reads / 0 Comments
Family Reads: Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of A Fist by Sunil Yapa

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 Sunil Yapa’s Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist had been on Ash’s shelf for awhile. She had purchased […]

Family Reads: A List of Cages by Robin Roe

30 July 2017 / family reads / 4 Comments
Family Reads: A List of Cages by Robin Roe

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 Robin Roe’s A List of Cages Somehow, this book ended up on Dad’s to-be-read shelf. We picked it because it was readily available at the library and because we had […]

Family Reads: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

30 June 2017 / family reads / 2 Comments
Family Reads: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

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 Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne Ash and I read VanderMeer’s Annhiliation  for our first Family Reads together (two years ago tomorrow!). When we heard of Borne, we agreed that we should read […]