Title: Seconds Author: Bryan Lee O’Malley Publisher: Random House of Canada Publication Date: July 2014 ISBN: 9780345529374 Synopsis from Goodreads: Katie’s got it pretty good. She’s a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she has big plans to open an even better one. Then, all at once, progress on the new location bogs down,Continue reading “Review: Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley”
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Book Club No. 2: How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Title: How to Build a Girl Author: Caitlin Moran Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: September 2014 ISBN: 9780062335999 Synopsis from Goodreads: It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking gothic hero and full-time LadyContinue reading “Book Club No. 2: How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran”
National Readathon Day
Saturday, January 24, 2015 is National Readathon Day! This day is being hosted by the National Book Foundation and Penguin Random House to raise money and awareness for literacy. I’m raising money to support and promote literacy in North America. I have worked as a volunteer to help children improve their reading skills. The goalContinue reading “National Readathon Day”
Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
*I received a copy from Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Seraphina Author: Rachel Hartman Publisher: Random House Canada Publication Date: Trade paperback, December 23, 2014 ISBN: 9780385668415 Synopsis from Goodreads: Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. FoldingContinue reading “Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman”
Review: You Are Here by Chris Hadfield
Title: You Are Here Author: Chris Hadfield Publisher: Random House Canada Publication Date: October 2014 ISBN: 9780345814944 Synopsis from Goodreads: Curated from images never before shared, Chris’s big picture reveals why our planet looks the way it does and why we live where we do. Chris sees more in these images than we do, not justContinue reading “Review: You Are Here by Chris Hadfield”
Review: Inked by Eric Smith
*I received this book on NetGalley in exchange for and honest review.* Title: Inked Author: Eric Smith Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark Publication Date: January 2015 ISBN: 9781619638594 Synopsis from Goodreads: Tattoos once were an act of rebellion. Now they decide your destiny the moment the magical Ink settles under your skin. And in a world where InkContinue reading “Review: Inked by Eric Smith”
2015 Reading Challenge
Originally posted on Well I De-Claire:
I always have such a problem choosing what book I want to read next, so this year, I thought I would give myself some criteria to choose from. I found this neat little reading challenge online and decided to actually take part instead of just liking the post on…
Review: Black Dog Summer by Miranda Sherry
*I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Black Dog Summer Author: Miranda Sherry Publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada Publication Date: February 10, 2015 ISBN: 9781476779768 Synopsis from Goodreads: Compulsively readable and stylistically stunning, Black Dog Summer begins with a murder, a farmstead massacre, in the South African bush. Thirty-eight-year-oldContinue reading “Review: Black Dog Summer by Miranda Sherry”
Review: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Title: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Author: Eimear McBride Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada Publication Date: September 2014 ISBN: 9781476789026 Synopsis from Goodreads: Not so much a stream-of-consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerableContinue reading “Review: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing”
Review: The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
*I received my copy of this book from Random House of Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Strange Library Author: Haruki Murakami Publisher: Knopf Publication Date: 2014 (originally 2005) ISBN: 9780385354301 Synopsis from Goodreads: A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the nightmarish library ofContinue reading “Review: The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami”
Worn Pages and Ink 