Review: When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin

8 February 2017 / review / 4 Comments
Review: When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin

Author: Grace Lin Title: When the Sea Turned to Silver Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: October 2016 Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers Length: 370 pages Genre: Middle-grade fantasy Why I Read: Cover + premise Rating: ★★★★½ GoodReads | Indigo | Indiebound | Book Depository I had some trouble with this review, as the beauty of this book distracted me from constructing thoughts beyond “It’s so lovely!” When the Sea Turned to Silver exemplifies beauty in both its physical design and story-telling prose. The […]

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Review: You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris

5 February 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Review: You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris

Author: Antoine Leiris (trans. Sam Taylor) Title: You Will Not Have My Hate Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: October 2016 Publisher: Penguin Press Length: 129 pages Genre: Memoir Why I Read: Read an excerpt Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Book Depository In November 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife Hélène was killed in the attack on the Bataclan Theatre. Their son Melvil was 17 months old at the time. You Will Not Have My Hate, a slim volume of […]

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January Month in Review

3 February 2017 / month in review, thoughts / 5 Comments
January Month in Review

January has set a great precedent for my reading and blogging this year. I’m on track with my two general challenges: 100 books/year and 8 posts/month including 4 review posts. I have a lot of reading challenges, new releases, and scheduled blog posts to keep track of. So far I’m staying on top of my Word document that has all that information. We’ll see how long that lasts 😉 Books […]

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Cybils Nominees Featuring Animals

1 February 2017 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Cybils Nominees Featuring Animals

From October to December of last year, I read just over 50 middle-grade fiction books in my role as a round one judge for the Cybils. To share some of the Cybils nominees I’ve read, I’ve decided to create a few lists grouping books by similar characteristics. All of the books meet the Cybils nominating criteria, which means they were published in English in Canada or the US between 16 […]

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Review: The Wizard’s Dog by Eric Kahn Gale

31 January 2017 / review / 2 Comments
Review: The Wizard’s Dog by Eric Kahn Gale

Author: Eric Kahn Gale Title: The Wizard’s Dog Format/Source: ebook/Publicist Published: 17 January 2017 Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers Length: 288 pages Genre: Middle-grade fantasy Why I Read: Light-hearted fantasy – something I needed! Rating: ★★★½ GoodReads | Indigo | Amazon I received a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review. Meet Nosewise. He’s spunky. He’s curious. And he’s a dog who can’t understand why his pack mates […]

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