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 […]
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: September 2017 Publisher: HarperCollins Length: 272 pages Genre: Literary fiction ★★★★½ The Child Finder focuses on the mystery of a missing child. If you stripped away the insightful prose, made the characters full of heart and heartbreak into something more generic, and ignored the histories that drive them, you’d be left with a pretty a pretty standard tale that could be the plot […]
This post is linked up at the Wrap Up Round Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction. End of term is upon me! Yesterday was my last lecture. I have two final projects due next week, but I’m not crunched for time. I can’t believe how fast autumn went by. I now face a whole month largely free of academic obligations. How exciting! Is that enough time to […]
The Good People by Hannah Kent Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: September 2017 Publisher: Little, Brown Length: 380 pages Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: ★★★★½ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery I waited impatiently over a year for this book to be released in Canada. I first expected it in September 2016 (but that was only the Australian release date), then in December 2016 (but then it got pushed all the way back to September 2017). […]
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis Aventurine is the fiercest, bravest dragon there is. And she’s ready to prove it to her family by leaving the safety of their mountain cave and capturing the most dangerous prey of all: a human. But when the human she finds tricks her into drinking enchanted hot chocolate, Aventurine is transformed into a puny human girl with tiny blunt teeth, no fire, […]