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
I really don't know how to write this post. I suspect I wouldn't except for having already shared here about my pregnancy. I was pregnant and now I'm not. Last week, only a couple of days before I would have reached sixteen weeks, our baby died. We don't know why. We may yet get some… Continue reading He Restores My Soul
Check out Day #1 and Day #2, as well as Judith's original challenge to find out what this is all about. My third and final quote comes from C.S. Lewis. I could probably share C.S. Lewis quotes all day long but since I'm sticking to things I've read this year, I'm sharing a quote from… Continue reading 3 Day Quote Challenge: Day #3
(Check out Day #1 and Judith at ReadandReview2016 to see what this is all about.) My quote for Day #2 comes from Don Quixote. If you've been reading along here then you know that I (finally) finished Don Quixote in March and that it was a long time coming. For such a big book, I… Continue reading 3 Day Quote Challenge: Day #2
When I read a book and I come across a line, a phrase, or a paragraph I like, I copy out the quotation in my journal. (And, I confess, if the book belongs to me I fold down the page and/or underline the part I like.) Sometimes I share these quotations when I write my… Continue reading 3 Day Quote Challenge: Day #1
No help for that a poem by Charles Bukowski there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the… Continue reading there is a place in the heart
Our local paper comes out once a week and covers news and events from Gibsons to Pender Harbour. My favourite section each week is the RCMP report. This column details crimes and misdemeanours that have taken place on the Coast. Generally, it's a lot of traffic issues - drunk drivers, car accidents, an elderly person… Continue reading In the News…
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis It's been a while since I read this one and so I'd forgotten that, well, not much happens in the story. It's a creative idea - bringing the Pevensie kids hundreds of years forward in Narnian history so that their return is like the return of King Arthur - but… Continue reading What I Read – May 2015
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