Keeping Pace by Laurie Morrison [MG Review]

9 April 2024 / review / 2 Comments
Keeping Pace by Laurie Morrison [MG Review]

Keeping Paceby Laurie MorrisonI received a free copy for review. Source: ebook/publisherPublished: 9 Apr. 2024 Publisher: Amulet Books (Abrams)Length: 304 pagesGenre: ContemporaryTarget Age: Upper MG (suitable for +10) Summary 💬 Grace has been working for years to beat her former friend Jonah Perkins’s GPA so she can be named top scholar of the eighth grade. But when Jonah beats her for the title, it feels like none of Grace’s academic accomplishments have really mattered. […]

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March 2024 Month In Review

2 April 2024 / month in review / 5 Comments
March 2024 Month In Review

March turned out to be busier than expected! Overtime at work carried through to the end of the month. I think I ended up doing something like 35 hours of OT in March. I have also been visiting my Grandpa a lot while my parents are away on vacation. Overtime is finished now, my parents return in a few days, and I have adjusted my work schedule so I frequently […]

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The Winter Garden by Alexandra Bell [Family Reads]

31 March 2024 / family reads / 2 Comments
The Winter Garden by Alexandra Bell [Family Reads]

On the night her mother dies, 8-year-old Beatrice receives an invitation to the mysterious Winter Garden. A place of wonder and magic, filled with all manner of strange and spectacular flora and fauna, the garden is her solace every night for seven days. But when the garden disappears, and no one believes her story, Beatrice is left to wonder if it were truly real. Eighteen years later, on the eve […]

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Gently to Nagasaki by Joy Ogawa [NF Review]

20 March 2024 / brief reviews / 4 Comments
Gently to Nagasaki by Joy Ogawa [NF Review]

Gently to Nagasakiby Joy KogawaSource: paperback/libraryPublished: Sept 2016Publisher: Caitlin Press Length: 214 pagesGenre: MemoirTarget Age: Adult (suitable for 16+) A nisei psychiatrist in Toronto told me he had not heard from any of Dad’s victims.“Not one?”“Not one.”“If you write about your father,” he said, “it will act as a lightning rod. And not all the anger will have anything to do with you or your father. You’d be inviting controversy. You’ll be targeted. My advice […]

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Updating My Review Archive [10th Blogiversary Celebration]

16 March 2024 / thoughts / 13 Comments
Updating My Review Archive [10th Blogiversary Celebration]

Welcome to my first post commemerating 10 years of book blogging! You’ll see a few of these posts throughout 2024. I’m taking this blogiversary as an opportunity to reflect on a variety of aspects of my blogging history and present. Updating the List The topic of this post was coincidental to my blogiversary. I thought, “I should really update my review archive”, and then I thought, “If I update my […]

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