2020 Middle Grade Titles for Gift Giving (Contemporary & Speculative Fiction)

15 November 2020 / list / 14 Comments
2020 Middle Grade Titles for Gift Giving (Contemporary & Speculative Fiction)

I finally finished this list! I have been working on it for a couple weeks. I meant to get it out sooner, but ‘life happens’ as they say. I wanted to highlight all the great books I’ve read this year, […]

Black Water: A Memoir of “Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory” [NF Review]

11 November 2020 / review / 14 Comments
Black Water: A Memoir of “Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory” [NF Review]

The son of a Cree father and a non-Indigenous mother, David A. Robertson was raised with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family’s Indigenous roots. His father, Don, spent his early childhood on a  trapline in the bush northeast […]

October 2020 Month In Review

1 November 2020 / month in review / 18 Comments
October 2020 Month In Review

Not much to say. Another month in my hometown with family. Enjoyed lots of outdoor activities, from mountain biking to walking through woods in the snow! I’m back to British Columbia on the 4th. Books Finished Books Reviewed Posts Written […]

Ready or Not, Here IT Comes… [MG Review]

28 October 2020 / review / 3 Comments
Ready or Not, Here IT Comes… [MG Review]

Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend.Zee went missing for a year. And when he came back, he was . . . different. Nobody knows what happened to him. At Zee’s welcome home party, Justin and the […]

Hour 18 Challenge [Read-a-thon]

24 October 2020 / events / 12 Comments
Hour 18 Challenge [Read-a-thon]

Welcome to Hour 18 of Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon! Give yourself a pat on the back, because you’ve done an awesome job making it this far. If you’re in the same time zone as me, it’s the hour of 11:00PM. You might be feeling […]