Happy Saturday! And Happy Easter while we’re at it! I’ve been looking forward to this look weekend for so long, even though I did have one session to run yesterday and one session today. I just want to sit at home and read and listen to music. This song came up on Spotify Discover playlist,… Continue reading Saturday Song: Cecie’s Lullaby by Steffany Gretzinger
I actually didn’t have this written up, because I had a hard time believing that we had somehow gotten through March already. So I was scrambling to do it at the end of the month. But these things happen. It was a better month than February, despite some disappointing moments (most involved snow), so can’t… Continue reading March Wrap Up & April Plans
The magical Hotel of Hoo is a mysterious place with some very unusual occupants. As our guests explore the strange hotel, they are invited to experience everything it has to offer with just one warning… don’t ever look behind door 32. This imaginative picture book aims to take children beyond the first ten cardinal numbers,… Continue reading Book Review: Don’t Ever Look Behind Door 32 by B.C.R. Fegan
Slight exaggeration, but whatever. Until recent years, I could count the number of books written from multiple points of view on my hands. Despite going through multiple books a week when I was a teenager, I can only remember a few where they had more than one POV, and honestly, most of them were Jodi… Continue reading I Would Sell My Soul for More Books with Only One Point of View – A Discussion
Martin Reese has a hobby: he digs up murder victims. He buys stolen police files on serial killers, and uses them to find and dig up missing bodies. Calls in the results anonymously, taunting the police for their failure to do their job. Detective Sandra Whittal takes that a little personally. She’s suspicious of the… Continue reading Book Review: Find You In The Dark by Nathan Ripley
Happy Saturday! It has been a long, rough week, but finally made it to the weekend. Next week will probably also be crazy, but one thing at a time right? Time to listen to music, read books, and relax so that I’m ready to tackle the week ahead. This is one of the songs that… Continue reading Saturday Song: Lover, Don’t Leave by Citizen Shade
So two years ago, I had taken a long weekend off of work. I’d planned it around when I’d lose the least work, so of course, everyone else was busy at work. I’d been reading a bunch of blogs and book reviews, and out of boredom and lack of anything better to do, I decided… Continue reading Two Years of Songs Wrote My Story Celebration! Best Books and Giveaway!
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked…until Will takes a job at… Continue reading Audiobook Reviews: Dumplin’ & An Ember in the Ashes
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted on That Artsy Reader Girl (previously on The Broke and the Bookish). I was going to do this as a general post, especially since it’s finally getting warm here in Alberta and I’ve been thinking about spring TBRs, and then I noticed that it was also a… Continue reading Books on My Spring TBR
Though one hesitates to call anything in this world ‘universal’, the ties of literature to music are intimate. Lest we forget, The Odyssey, one of the greatest early works of human literature to which modern man is privy, was a sort of song recited by the blind poet, Homer. The words of Aeschylus in the… Continue reading The Magic of Music: A Few Words on Playlists in Writing – A Guest Post by M.F. Sullivan
