Holiday Advent Calendar Unveiling: December 23
I’ve got a brand new background for ya today! And some insights from my husband on this latest short story which has a very creative title (wink wink).
I’m currently working on a project at my day job centered around Juneteenth, and much to my embarrassment, I had never even heard of this day before our American partner so kindly educated us. I’ve been doing a bit more research since, but I still have much to learn. It’s typically celebrated on June 19,…
The Amateurs by Liz Harmer is hard to slot into one category; it’s literary, philosophical, dystopian and science fiction, all within 300-ish pages. Even the publishers had to use other books like The Leftovers by Tom Perotta, The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, and The Circle by Dave Eggers to describe what this…
If the title of this book is confusing, the subtitle will make everything clear: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers. As you can see by the cover of the book, it’s all about ‘Christmasy’ stories of crime, and who doesn’t love to read a holiday-themed book at this time of year? There are 18…
A quote on the cover of Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook loudly proclaims it as escapist fiction, although I’m hesitant to slap that label on it. Yes, it transports the reader to another time and place, but it does more than distract – it educates! Pook herself is a journalist and traveler, and…
I read a total of 76 (ish) books this year, which was more than I read last year, so I’m happy with the overall outcome. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t count all the books I read in my annual end-of-year list, like parenting books, kids books, or the short story advent calendar I just…
Its fabulous title originally drew me to the short story collection Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For by Leslie Greentree, but the fact that it’s a locally published and authored work, right here in Calgary at the University of Calgary Press, was reason enough for me to read this one; I love a book…
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he sure wouldn’t! My husband did though :)