Milkman - Anna Burns (Graywolf Press, 2018) I'll admit, it took me quite a while to finish this book. While that doesn't sound like a rave review, I don't blame Milkman. This was a book that required a certain amount of attention, a certain buy-in if you will. The style of the writing and the… Continue reading Book Review: Milkman by Anna Burns
As Many Nows as I Can Get - Shana Youngdahl (Dial Books, 2019) I received an Advance Reading Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. In my last young adult book review I wrote, "I do believe that a great book transcends its target audience and can be enjoyed regardless of age" and… Continue reading Book Review: As Many Nows as I Can Get by Shana Youngdahl
Tonight is the first event of the 2019 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. Which means I've come to the end of my Writers Fest Challenge for 2019, a self-imposed challenge of attempting to read at least one book from each author. (Here's my original post about it.) So, how did I do? I… Continue reading Writers Fest Challenge 2019: In Conclusion
Rachel at pace, amore, libri tagged me for this one and I can't resist some literary fiction talk so here we go! Her answers are great and worth reading and she links to the booktubers who started this tag and I also enjoyed their videos. (Though "book tube" is a whole other area of the… Continue reading The Literary Fiction Book Tag
Say Say Say - Lila Savage (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) I received an Advance Readers' Copy of this book. It is available for sale now. I liked this book a lot. It was not at all what I expected but was filled with thoughtful, unexpected moments and descriptions. It wasn't the chivalry that had appealed… Continue reading Book Review: Say Say Say by Lila Savage
I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this out loud but the girls are in such a nice phase of playing together. Sure, just yesterday Pearl told me she "never, ever wants to play with Rose anymore" but she also played with Rose quite nicely about half an hour after that. Rose can't always follow the… Continue reading Life: Science, Ice Cream, and Chalk
Talking about spring time with a friend recently I confessed that I feel like I'm a better mom when the weather is good. "Aren't we all better people when the sun shines?" she replied. Good thing the sun has been shining plenty around here. We have been fully enjoying our backyard, which is in beautiful… Continue reading Life: When the Sun Shines
Puddle stomping is a popular activity around here. It feels like, once again, we have entered a new stage. Pearl will be four this month. (Four! Why does that sound so old to me?) Rose reached sixteen-months at the end of January. In many ways, they are both increasingly independent. In many other ways, they… Continue reading 2019 so far…
All the Broken Things - Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (Random House Canada, 2014) I'd had All the Broken Things on my To Read list for a couple of years and when I finally began reading it realized I had no idea what it was actually about. The novel is set in 1984 in Toronto. Bo is fourteen years old. He… Continue reading Book Review: All the Broken Things by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Tomorrow There Will Be Sun - Dana Reinhard (Viking, 2019) I received an Advance Readers' Copy of this book. It is set to be released 12 March 2019. The word that comes to mind when describing Tomorrow There Will Be Sun is "frothy". Like a margarita on a hot day. Not necessarily to be criticized but neither is it something you need in your life. There are a lot of margaritas drunk in this novel. To… Continue reading Book Review: Tomorrow There Will Be Sun by Dana Reinhardt
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