Title: One Hundred Days of Rain Author: Carelling Brooks Publisher: BookThug Publication Date: March 2015 ISBN: 9781771660907 Synopsis from cover: In prose by turn haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks’ One Hundred Days of Rain enumerates an unnamed narrator’s encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuildContinue reading “Review: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks”
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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”
Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author: Lionel Shriver Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication Date: 2003 ISBN:9780061124297 Synopsis from Goodreads: Eva never really wanted to be a mother – and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher whoContinue reading “Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Review: The Universal Bureau of Copyrights
Title: The Universal Bureau of Copyrights Author: Bertrand Laverdure Translator: Oana Avasilichioaei Publisher: BookThug Publication Date: October 2014 ISBN: 9781771660525 Synopsis from Goodreads: From multidisciplinary artist Bertrand Laverdure comes UNIVERSAL BUREAU OF COPYRIGHTS, a bold, strange, and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn’t exist, and an unnameable global corporation buys and sellsContinue reading “Review: The Universal Bureau of Copyrights”
Review: Earth & Sky by Megan Crewe
Title: Earth & Sky Author: Megan Crewe Publisher: Razorbill Canada Publication Date: October 2014 ISBN: 9780670068128 Synopsis from Goodreads: Seventeen-year-old Skylar has been haunted for as long as she can remember by fleeting yet powerful sensations that something is horribly wrong. But despite the panic attacks tormenting her, nothing ever happens, and Sky’s beginning to thinkContinue reading “Review: Earth & Sky by Megan Crewe”
Review: Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady
*I received this copy from Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Emancipation Day Author: Wayne Grady Publisher: Anchor Canada Publication Date: paperback, November 2014 ISBN: 9780385677684 Synopsis from Goodreads: With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes theContinue reading “Review: Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady”
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: 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”
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”
Worn Pages and Ink 