Happy Friday! I’m pleased to announced Beth Weatherbee is the winner of last week’s giveaway! Thanks for entering everyone, and […]
Giveaway Winner and Book Recommendations
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JUNE!
I love June! The days are getting longer, the nights are warmer, things are beginning to bloom, the pool has […]
Books you need to read NOW!
Happy Friday! I love it when favourite authors release new books! It’s like a gift; you know you loved their […]
Books I’m Excited About
I don’t know about you, but I am in serious cocooning mode right now. As my friend Brian used to […]
Books I loved this year!
The holidays are coming and I thought I might share some books that I particularly loved this year and […]
The Frame-Up On The Radio!
It’s been another great week for The Frame-Up! This past Monday, I was interviewed by on Q, a radio […]
Book Review and Giveaway Winner
Sometimes you read a book at the exact right time. With all of the attacks on the media […]
The Frame-Up Characters and Locales: W. Somerset Maugham
One of my favourite characters in The Frame-Up is Somerset Maugham Why? Well first of all, Maugham is […]
The Joy of Wordless Picture Books
I don’t know about you, but the holiday season always seems like the perfect time of year to add […]
End of Summer
I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to let the summer go… It was 10C when I […]
Some books to read in the aftermath of Charlottesville
This has been a terrible week. Hate marched, its opponents were murdered or injured, and a country realized that […]
Recent Books I’ve read that I know are going to be “Forever Books”
Don’t you love to reread favourite books? Most of the time, those books are books I read when […]
Canada’s 150th birthday – a book party and giveaway!
July 1st is Canada’s 150th birthday. In honour of that day, and seeing how everybody else is making […]
Coping with Pet Loss through Children’s Books
I recently lost my seventeen year old dog, Indy, and it was heartbreaking. I had forgotten how […]
Books I’ve read lately that I love!
Every once in a while I think it’s a good idea to share with you some of the amazing […]
My love affair with books about large families!
I just finished reading an advanced reader copy of Karina Yan Glaser’s wonderful The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street. […]
World Book Day!
Books Can Change the World. They can show us places we’ve never been, they let us live other lives, […]
A thank you to Julie and a prescription for hope: books
It’s been a long week. Apart from the election results which shocked me, I was dealing with a death […]
We Need Diverse Books!
“We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would […]
Reading – the best and least expensive writing course you can take
I have been thinking about reading – a lot. This is probably because I just finished reading my 85th […]