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A To Z Bookish Survey

I used to love filling out the surveys and notes on Facebook back in the day, so when I saw this A to Z survey on Jamie’s blog, I just had to fill it out! Author you’ve read the most books from: Lemony Snicket (16) followed by J.K. Rowling, Harlan Coben and Sarah Dessen (each with 11). Best...

Friday Finds (August 16)

Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, where you discuss books that you’ve discovered and added to your to-read list over the course of the week. These books don’t have to be ones that you’ve purchased – they can be books that you’ve borrowed, found online, heard about from a friend, etc. As always,...

30 Day Book Challenge: Day 10

I stumbled across this 30 day book challenge by The Chronicles of Radiya and decided to give it a try. Hopefully it will lead to 30 consecutive days of blogging that liven up the blog a bit and give us a chance to get to know each other a little better. Day 10: Favourite Classic Book Alice’s Adventures...

Top Ten Books Set In Canada

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week she posts an idea for relating to books, and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own “top ten” list. As a proud Canadian who engages in the stereotypical acts of saying “eh” and practically living at Tim...

The Art of DNFing

So far, this has been a week of firsts for me: I successfully parallel parked between two vehicles (and freaked my mom out in the process),  I donated blood, and I marked a book as “DNF.” Guess which one I was the most proud of? Yup, the DNF. For some reason, I always had to finish a book....

Book Review: SYLO by D.J. MacHale

Does Tucker Pierce have what it takes to be a hero when the U.S. military quarantines his island? Fourteen-year-old Tucker Pierce prefers to fly under the radar. He’s used to navigating around summer tourists in his hometown on idyllic Pemberwick Island, Maine. He’s content to sit on the sidelines as a backup player on the high school football...