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 […]
This post is linked up at the Monthly Round-Up Wrap-Up @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction. Is summer here yet? The season has been slow to arrive where I live. But if the weather forecast can be relied on, then I should only have to wait a few more days! I finished work on 23 June and move in mid August. In the meantime I’m want to enjoy my last few […]
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: January 2014 Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books Length: 240 pages Genre: Contemporary middle grade Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery Violet is a smart, funny, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl in a family of blonds. Her mom is white, and her dad, who died before she was born, was black. She attends a mostly white school where she sometimes feels like a […]
My mid-year check in is still coming on 5 July, but I decided I also wanted to do this post as a way to: remind myself of all the great books I’ve read this year easily share my reviews thus far offer a brief thought on books I won’t be reviewing (some books will still receive a review later on) Links to my reviews where applicable. Since it’s ?? Canada Day […]
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 […]