So after my hiatus from the blog to deal with the end of school craziness, it took me longer to get back into the "swing of things" than...

I was on a bit of a historical fiction kick last month, particularly war-themed historical fiction. During that I read Robert Olmstead's...

Happy Thursday, which means happy book review day! Last month I read Elizabeth Stout's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Olive Kitteridge....

Happy review day all! I am in such a ridiculously good mood lately. Spring is actually here - the sun is shining! And I'm on my way to a...

A few weeks ago I read The Book of Night Women, by Marlon James. The story follows Lilith, at the end of the eighteenth century, a slave...

Happy Thursday! Happy book review day! And, since I know a ridiculously large quantity of people who have a birthday today (seriously,...

I have definite political opinions, but for the most part, I try to avoid writing about them on this blog. But today I'm reviewing a...

Yay, it's officially spring! Yes, I know I live in Canada, which means it's probably going to keep snowing off and on for a while yet,...

Last week I finished Mona Awad's book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. But, while I often compose my review for a book a day or two...

After reading The Pilot's Wife earlier in February, this book caught my eye from my bookshelf. Another book with "wife" in the title. I...

Ah, Thursday. The weekend is in sight. Plus this one is special, with that whole brand, shiny new weekend-ness. And Thursday is extra...

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 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...

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

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,...

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...