While I was trying to think of a topic for my next blog post, I was playing around with different themes related to dystopian fiction. I was Googling phrases like "best dystopian books" and "best dystopia world building" and I noticed something:...
Recently I read a terrible YA novel that I won’t mention by title but it made me very upset that impressionable youth would read it and...
Burnt Paper Sky by Gilly MacMillan is a 2015 thriller that follows what happens in the days following the disappearance of eight-year-old Ben, the son of a divorced (and bitter) mother named Rachel Jenner. While walking in the woods one day,...
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It's a new month and there are new books! Get your "to be read" list out and start adding a few of these titles to it.
March - cold, blowing, wintery March. This month I plan to be tucked up in a warm blanket reading all the newest titles in my favorite mystery series. How about you?
I am starting to understand that there are two types of readers: those who love to re-read their favourite books, and those who read books once and then move on. I am firmly in the re-reading camp.
Naomi Novik’s Uprooted is a fantasy novel based on Polish folklore taken from the author’s own ancestry. In the book, a young woman named...
With this unseasonably warm weather (anyone remember what Halifax looked like this time last year?), I am already in gear to start my spring cleaning. There's something about the change of the season and the promise of sunshine that makes me want to...
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The 2015 Nebula Award nominees have been announced. The books are voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Amongst this year's in the running are:Raising Caine by Charles E. GannonThe Fifth Season by N.K....
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