Tag: Literature
Review: Milk and Honey
Emily
Ruper Kaur has caused a whole lot of buzz in the past few years. Though I’ve read her poems on social media and seen them shared countless times, I only got around to reading Milk And Honey this summer after receiving it as a gift. Summary Milk and Honey is a… Continue Reading Review: Milk and Honey
Mini-Reviews: What I’ve Been Reading
Emily
As you’ve probably noticed if you come around here often, I’ve been a little inactive the last couple months. This is largely because I started working with a small press earlier this year and most of my reading has been work related. Still, I want to get back into it,… Continue Reading Mini-Reviews: What I’ve Been Reading
Review: The Boat People
Emily
I received a copy of The Boat People for volunteering at the Giller Light Bash in November. With the topics of immigration and refugees in the news a lot, I figured it would be an ambitious novel and I wasn’t disappointed. Summary Told from multiple perspectives, The Boat People is the story of a… Continue Reading Review: The Boat People
Review: Nostalgia
Emily
I picked Nostalgia up not knowing much about it other than that it had been on Canada Reads. Science fiction isn’t really a genre I normally associate with Canadian literature, so I was intrigued. Summary In the indeterminate future, humans have figured out how to live forever … almost. With the… Continue Reading Review: Nostalgia
Review: The Conjoined
Emily
I picked The Conjoined up on Kobo a while back because it was on sale and I’d heard a lot of good things about Jen Sookfong Lee. Summer holidays finally came around giving me the chance to read it. Summary Social worker Jessica Campbell is sorting through her deceased mother’s belongings… Continue Reading Review: The Conjoined
Review: Bone and Bread
Emily
I heard Saleema Nawaz read a portion of Bone and Bread at The Festival of Literary Diversity. I almost bought the book there because Nawaz was such a good reader. Silly me though, I’d already bought it on Kobo! Summary Beena is grappling with the sudden and strange death of her… Continue Reading Review: Bone and Bread
ARC Review: The Glass Town Game
Emily
This lovely ARC of The Glass Town Game has been sitting in my TBR shelf since the Ottawa Blogger Meetup. It was too big for me to take on vacation, so I had to wait till I got home to start it. If you count September as the beginning of fall,… Continue Reading ARC Review: The Glass Town Game
Review: The Best Kind of People
Emily
Can you all just go read The Best Kind of People? I need (not want, NEED) more people to read this so that I can talk about it. Like, you don’t even need to read this review, just go read the book. K? Alright. Summary George Woodbury, a repeat teacher… Continue Reading Review: The Best Kind of People
Review: Holding Still For As Long As Possible
Emily
Holding Still For As Long As Possible is another book I picked up at The Festival of Literary Diversity. Zoe Whittall hosted one of the sessions I attended and she impressed me so I picked up her book. It also won the Lambda Award, so I figured I probably wasn’t… Continue Reading Review: Holding Still For As Long As Possible
A Reader Lives A Thousand Lives
Emily
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons. Last month was Inktober, a challenge where participants complete an ink drawing everyday in October. I followed the official Inktober prompt list from Jake… Continue Reading A Reader Lives A Thousand Lives