“Adding this to my TBR !!!” – famous words uttered by every bookworm you know. For those of you new to the reading world, TBR = To Be Read. The problem with adding everything to your TBR list though, is that eventually..you have to read it! As bookworms, I believe we create our TBR lists… Continue reading The Great Unread: Tackling My TBR List with 24 Books in 2024
My rating: 5/5 stars “I am my own universe; a galaxy; a solar system. I am the warm up act, the main event and the backing singers. And if this is it, if this is all there is – just me and the trees and the skies and the seas – I know now that… Continue reading Review: Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
My rating: 3.5/5 stars “For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.” Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl… Continue reading Review: Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
My rating: 5/5 stars “The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character… Continue reading Review: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
My rating: 4/5 stars What an eye-opening, well researched and informative read. ‘The Skin We’re In’ goes into great detail about racial discrimination and police brutality in Canada. What I found most interesting was learning about the history of Indigenous and black people in Canada (particularly Nova Scotia), from the first black settlers and the… Continue reading Review: The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
I don’t know what it is about January but it always seems to go on forever. It’s been a busy start to the year but I managed to read four books so I’m pretty pleased. This month I dove into Sally Rooney’s books after seeing much hype about them all over the interwebs; the name… Continue reading January Wrap-Up
2019 was probably my busiest year yet and as a result, I read less books this year than I have in the past. I’m finishing the year with a total of 42 books, spanning a diverse range of authors and genres. For a full list of all the books I read, you can check out… Continue reading Favourite Reads of 2019
The Nest by Cynthia D’aprix Sweeny My rating: 4/5 stars Nothing was a sure thing; every choice was just an educated guess, or a leap into a mysterious abyss. Life has a funny way of working out in the end. Everything happens for a reason. What’s meant to be will be. Those are all common… Continue reading February Wrap-Up 2019
Wake Up Missing by Kate Messner My rating: 3/5 stars When Cat falls out of a treehouse, she suffers a serious concussion which lands her in the most advanced brain treatment centre in the country. There, she meets four other kids: Ben, Quentin, Sarah and Trent. Soon after arriving at the centre, Cat becomes… Continue reading November Wrap-Up 2018
Joyful by Robert Hillman My rating: 3/5 stars “If one thing is meant to be, then surely all things are meant to be and there is nothing to be done about anything.” I picked this book out at random. Like, literally walked down one (fiction) aisle of my library, eyes closed, stretched out my… Continue reading June Wrap-Up 2018
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