The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story by Charis Cotter Alice’s world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they’ve cancelled their yearly cottage trip — the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice’s mom will be a live-inContinue reading “The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story”
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Book Review: The Willing
The Willing by Lindsay Lees In less than a year, fifteen-year-old Gypsy Capone will be considered a woman in Ovoidia, a “utopian” city-state where every woman can be approached for immediate sex by any man, where curving architecture adds weird whimsy, sporks are the only cutlery, and true intimacy between the genders is a signContinue reading “Book Review: The Willing”
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme that is currently being hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. And just like that, it is Monday again. I had a busy week last week. I’m moving at the end of the month, so my week was filled with appointments and viewings, and now thatContinue reading “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?”
Six Degrees Of Separation – August 2021 Edition
Six Degrees of Separation is the brain child of Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best where we all start with the same book, and head down the rabbit hole to add six more, and see where our links take us! Follow the hashtag #6degrees on Twitter to check out everyone else’s chains. Six Degrees ofContinue reading “Six Degrees Of Separation – August 2021 Edition”
Book Review: The Perfect Family
The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding Thomas and Viv Adler are the envy of their neighbors: attractive, successful, with well-mannered children and a beautifully restored home. Until one morning, when they wake up to find their porch has been pelted with eggs. It’s a prank, Thomas insists; the work of a few out-of-control kids. ButContinue reading “Book Review: The Perfect Family”
July Wrap Up
Can you believe it’s already August? I can’t. It feels like this year is just flying by. I managed to get a few days of vacation in, spent a few nice days in Calgary with Lottie. It wasn’t long or particularly far away, but it was still a nice break. I always forget to postContinue reading “July Wrap Up”
Top Ten Tuesday: Covers Or Titles
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt is covers and/or titles that made me want to buy/read the book. I feel like this prompt was written for me, because I am very much someone who zooms in on a cool book title orContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Covers Or Titles”
Book Review: Grenade Bouquet
Grenade Bouquets by Lee Matthew Goldberg I had stars in my eyes and I couldn’t see around them… The year is 1995 and my parents have finally allowed me to take the summer to tour in a VW van across the country with my boyfriend Evan and our band. Yes, my dream to be aContinue reading “Book Review: Grenade Bouquet”
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme that is currently being hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. Well, it’s August. Just 29 days until my daughter goes back to school. I can hardly believe that summer has been and gone so quickly. I spend so much time planning all the funContinue reading “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?”
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