Growing up under his punk rocker dad’s spotlight, eighteen-year-old Luke Greenly knows fame and wants nothing to do with it. His real love isn’t in front of a crowd, it’s on the page. Hiding his gift and secretly hoarding songs in his bedroom at night, he prefers the anonymous comfort of the locally popular podcast he co-hosts with...
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August 2020: Monthly Wrap-Up
I genuinely don’t know where the time (and the summer!) has gone. It’s slightly terrifying that it’s September already, but I’m ridiculously excited to put all of my sneakers away and start wearing Docs and cozy cardigans again. Reading Progress I was a little burned out in August, but I somehow managed to read 6 books. Three of...
Top Ten Books That Made Me Hungry
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week’s topic is “top ten books that made me hungry.” I haven’t read too many books where food is an important part...
Top Ten Books I Loved But Never Reviewed
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week’s topic is “top ten books I loved but never reviewed.” I haven’t been as consistent with reviewing as I’d have liked,...
Review | Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die. And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use...
Top Ten Books with Colours in the Titles
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week’s topic is “Top Ten Books with Colours in the Titles.” This list was surprisingly tough to pull together, since I wanted...
July 2020: Monthly Wrap-Up
How is it already August? I feel like Canada Day was just yesterday, and now it’s nearly autumn. Reading Progress I’m somehow still ahead of my Goodreads reading challenge! I read 4 books this month, and two of these were backlist titles. I’m so glad that the library is open once again for curbside pickup — it’s so...
Top Ten Non-YA Books On My TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week is a freebie, where we get to come up with our own topic. When I first started blogging, 99% of what...
Review | Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits—someone who knows...
Top Ten Book Events/Festivals I’d Love To Go To Someday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week’s topic is “Top Ten Book Events/Festivals I’d Love To Go To Someday.” To date, the only book event I’ve been to...