2025 kicked off to a strong start in terms of reading and blogging, but then two unexpected events (one good, one bad) caused me me wobble a bit. The good: I got my job back! With six days’ notice, I went back to work on January 20. Work’s looking stable to at least the summer, but my position is somewhat budget-dependent and the budget hasn’t been finalized yet so… we’ll […]
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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2024. I highlight a mix of debut authors and simply new-to-me authors below. I feel a little bad that I haven’t reviewed several of these titles, which were favourite reads of 2024. I’m still hoping to knock out a West Passage review, because I think that book especially deserves more attention. But that’s how I feel about most of the […]
#28’s Result – Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park I may be nearly five years late, but I ended up loving this one! Apparently I had forgotten how much I loved Little House on the Prairie as a kid. I had (and still have, at my parents’ house) a treasured set of paperbacks which we read often while out at the lake. I haven’t reread those books since. I also […]
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Overview Near the end of 2023, I began toying with the idea of doing mini review round ups throughout 2024. I wrote a post in January 2023 with all the books I read in 2023 but didn’t review. The idea of mini review round ups was basically an attempt to get ahead of having to write one massive post like that for 2024. Thank-you to Annemieke @ A Dance with […]
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A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth HandSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: Oct 2023Publisher: Mulholland Books (Hachette)Length: 322 pages Genre: Horror (haunted house)Target Age: Adult (suitable for 15+)Representation: Multiple queer characters, incl protagonist Holly Summary 💬 Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to […]