After a friend and former coworker recommended and lent me this book about, oh, eight years ago, and after I left it sitting on my shelf...

I can't believe I haven't done my review yet for Stephen King's It. I know I've written about it in recommended lists, especially around...

It's Thursday! You know what that means? Yes, one day closer to the weekend, obviously, but also that it's book review day! At the...

Today is my husband's birthday. (Yes, one week after mine.) He's my favourite human, and I'm pretty gosh darned glad he was born. So in...

Today is my birthday. Today, I'm 33-years-old. That's old enough to be an actual, honest-to-goodness grown up, and I have absolutely no...

Welcome to the first review of 2018! I always give some thought to the first read of every new year, and this year was no different. I...

Hello, 2018. How's it going? I've been writing and focusing a lot on this new year looming ahead of us. Our feet are planted on the road...

Happy winter and happy book review day! This is the last review before Christmas, and to celebrate I thought I would review a Christmas...

Last Christmas my brother gave me a couple books I was so excited to read. One featured an incredibly gorgeous cover, all in blues, with...

Several years ago, my husband had had enough of the fact that I had never read 1984. Apparently this omission made me the "worst English...

Earlier this week, I took a group of students - more than 50 - to a live production of A Christmas Carol. Between that, and the new film,...

My reviews have been hit and miss this month, what with the release of The Girl with the Empty Suitcase, and all. But today, that all...

Yesterday, The Girl with the Empty Suitcase was officially released. I'm not going to review my own book, for two reasons: 1. I'm not...

I'm traveling right now in Finland with a group of my students - 15 of them! - and a couple of other teachers. It's all part of an...

Last spring, the acting principal at my school lent me a book that he'd been raving about. He told me I'd love it, that the writing style...

I know I disappeared from my weekly book reviews for a while, but now I'm back! This week I am reviewing a classic of modern literature....

“If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can...

Let me preface this week's review by saying no, I haven't seen the movie. I love movies, but I love books too (more, usually!). So I am...

Today's review addresses a book set in nineteenth-century Paris. It blends historical research with fictional developments and...

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle...