This past week was Reading Week, ‘spring break’ for us university students. Luckily, my courses are structured so that I didn’t have a ton of work to do over the break. This provided the perfect opportunity for my sister to come and visit me! 🙂 Here’s some of what we got up to. Doing __ Catfe Vancouver Aquarium Annhiliation advanced screening Nitobe Memorial Garden (Japanese garden) @ UBC Book of Kells […]
The first month of 2018 is behind us! I did a lot of excellent reading in January, thanks in part to having to read the Cybils middle grade speculative fiction shortlist 😛 I returned to university on January 3 after a couple of fun filled weeks back at home with my family for the holidays. Now that I’m back in the thick of it re: readings and assignments, I’ll be cutting […]
Welcome to my eighth annual ‘Wrapping Up, Looking Forward’ post. In this post, I like to take a general look back at how I did with my goals in 2017, and set some new goals for 2018. Posting and Reading Overview I posted 81 times. I had a vague goal for posting this year, thinking about two posts (incl. one review) a week. I didn’t distribute my posts in an […]
Hosted by Jamie @ Perpetual Page Turner, I like how this survey delves into the specifics of books read and gives me a chance to review all I read and wrote this year. I did remove some of the questions that I didn’t have an answer for, so be sure to visit the original post if you’d like to complete the survey. Links to reviews where applicable. My annual overview […]
Time for my 2017 mid-year check in. The year’s been clipping along nicely, hasn’t it? Somehow I’ve managed to keep a good handle on my reading and blogging for this first half of the year! I suspect my habits will change when I start an MLIS programme in the fall. I have not modified my goals to reflect the change in lifestyle. We’ll see how it plays out. I will […]