I’ve started a book club with a friend of mine! We’re meeting once a month to try different books that maybe we wouldn’t have read otherwise and to challenge ourselves to try new things. We’ve set out our books for the next 6 months and we hope that our book club will expand. Title: LookingContinue reading “Book Club No. 1”
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Funky Cover Friday
My apologize for posting this so late! It’s my busy week and Funky Cover Friday slipped my mind until now. But I have a good one for you today. This week, I’m absolutely enthralled with the cover for Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You. I can’t wait to get my hands on this book, notContinue reading “Funky Cover Friday”
Review: Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
Title: Afterworlds Author: Scott Westerfeld Publisher: Simon Pulse Publication Date: September 2014 ISBN: 9781481422345 Synopsis from Goodreads: Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she’s made the right decision until she falls in withContinue reading “Review: Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld”
Review: The Walled City
*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Walled City Author: Ryan Graudin Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: November 4, 2014 ISBN: 9780316405058 Synopsis from Goodreads: 730. That’s how many days I’ve been trapped. 18. That’s how many days I have left to find a way out.Continue reading “Review: The Walled City”
Blog Tour: Bye-Bye, Evil Eye by Deborah Kerbel
Welcome to my FIRST BLOG TOUR EVER! Yay! I read Deborah Kerbel’s Bye-Bye, Evil Eye, a middle grade mystery in which thirteen-year-old Dani is cursed by the “evil eye” and suffers weeks of bad luck. All she wants is a summer of fun, friends, and of course, cute boys, but things don’t turn out exactly asContinue reading “Blog Tour: Bye-Bye, Evil Eye by Deborah Kerbel”
Review: Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Title: Annabel Author: Kathleen Winter Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication Date: 2010 ISBN: 9780887842368 Synopsis from Goodreads: In 1968, into the devastating, spare atmosphere of the remote coastal town of Labrador, Canada, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only threeContinue reading “Review: Annabel by Kathleen Winter”
Funky Cover Friday
So, I just finished Sophrosyne by Marianne Apostolides last night. While I’m working on my review (To come on Nov. 23), I wanted to share with you the dramatic cover of this complex story. Like it’s cover, this story is a work of art. Both are contemplative and really, are open to much interpretation. I love professionalContinue reading “Funky Cover Friday”
Review: The Freedom in the American Song
Title: The Freedom in the American Song Author: Kathleen Winter Publisher: Biblioasis Publication Date: September 2014 ISBN: 9781927428733 Synopsis on Goodreads: Meet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time. MeetContinue reading “Review: The Freedom in the American Song”
Funky Cover Friday
In honour of the release of Maggie Stiefvater’s Blue Lily, Lily Blue, this week’s Funky Cover Friday features the cover of the latest edition to the Raven Cycle series. I featured this cover when it was revealed months ago and to this day, it remains one of my favourite YA covers. It’s a stunning mix ofContinue reading “Funky Cover Friday”
Author Interview: Amanda Reilly
I was at Word on the Street in Toronto a few week’s back. It was my first time there and it was more than I could have ever imagined. I met lots of great people in the publishing biz and I met quite a few fantastic writers. One of the coolest parts of the dayContinue reading “Author Interview: Amanda Reilly”
Worn Pages and Ink 