Title: The Half-Brother Author: Holly LeCraw Publisher: Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House Canada Publication Date: February 17, 2015 ISBN: 9780385531955 Synopsis from Goodreads: When Charlie Garrett arrives as a young teacher at the shabby-yet-genteel Abbott School, he finds a world steeped in privilege and tradition. Fresh out of college and barely older than theContinue reading “Review: The Half-Brother”
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Cover Reveal: Falling for Alice
2015 marks the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. To celebrate, here’s the cover for Falling for Alice, a new young adult anthology from Vine Leaves Press. Falling for Alice Dawn Dalton | Shari Green | Denise Jaden | Kittiy Keswick | Cady Vance April 24, 2015 | Vine Leaves Press New Alice. New Wonderland.Continue reading “Cover Reveal: Falling for Alice”
Funky Cover Friday
Hello all! It’s Funky Cover Friday once again. As you all probably know at this point, I’m a fan of any cover that can also be considered art wort. The cover for The Things We Thought We Saw in the Water by C. Frazier Jones could be a very melancholy print. Any time I see a book coverContinue reading “Funky Cover Friday”
Review: If I Fall, If I Die
Title: If I Fall, If I Die Author: Michael Christie Publisher: Hogarth, The Crown Publishing Group Publication Date: January 13, 2015 ISBN: 9780804140805 Synopsis from Goodreads: Will has never been to the outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely lovingContinue reading “Review: If I Fall, If I Die”
Review: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks
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”
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”
Worn Pages and Ink 