Holy macaroni, where did July go? It seems like this whole month has just flown by in a mess of work and books and thunderstorms. When I think back, it seems like it’s been July forever, but now that the end is dawning on us, it doesn’t seem so long. But let’s get to the… Continue reading July Wrap Up
Happy Saturday! In honour of the new Harry Potter story that falls into our hands at midnight tonight (or, if you’re like me, and ordered it online for delivery without checking what day the 31st is and have to wait until Tuesday), I’ve opted to share my favourite parodies about Harry Potter! All of these… Continue reading Saturday Song(s): Favourite Harry Potter Parodies
Welcome back to another week of The Light Between Oceans Read Along! If you’ve missed my previous posts about this, and for some reason decided to click anyway, the link to the read along can be found here. It’s hosted on Goodreads by Simon and Schuster Canada. Chapter Sixteen Tom and Isabel go back to Janus, and… Continue reading The Light Between Oceans Read-Along: Chapters 16-20
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted over on The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is Things Books Have Made Me Want to Do or Learn After Reading About Them. This list could probably go on forever, since there are lots of things that seem like a good idea when I’m reading about them,… Continue reading Things Books Have Made Me Want To Do
The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan’s amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a “half blood” whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan’s series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that… Continue reading The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Happy Saturday! I’m writing this post in advance, because when you are reading this, I will be trying to survive a 53km bike ride through the Alberta badlands! So if you don’t hear from me for a while after this, it’s because my legs fell off and I had to roll all the way back… Continue reading Saturday Song: If You Could Read My Mind
Welcome to another week of The Light Between Oceans Read Along! If this is the first you are hearing about this, it’s being hosted over on Goodreads by Simon & Schuster Canada. You can check it out here. I was a little concerned that I wasn’t going to get this post up on time, because there… Continue reading The Light Between Oceans Read-Along: Chapters 11-15
Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake’s glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. “Bible John” terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom–and he was never… Continue reading Black and Blue (Inspector Rebus #8) by Ian Rankin
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted over on The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is ‘Books Set Outside the USA’. There are a lot of books set in America that are fairly mainstream at this point. Maybe it’s just because so many of our authors come from there, or because it’s an easy… Continue reading 10 Books Set Outside The USA
Happy Sunday! I’m a day late on this one. It’s been a hectic, 6-day work week this time around, and I’ve been completely exhausted when I finally get home. So I completely fell behind on posting and reading, so the next week or so might be a little barren around here, but I will beg of… Continue reading Saturday Song on Sunday: Take Me Home
