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

Happy May! It's one of my favourite months. Of course, I also say that about June, July, August, September, October... You get the idea....

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...

It's Shakespeare's birthday today. At my school, we gave cake to any student who recited Shakespearean lines. We gave out a lot of cake....

In honour of Earth Day today, I thought I'd share an Emily Dickinson poem, all about nature. You can also check out last year's posts of...

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,...

When I started writing The Girl with the Empty Suitcase, I knew right away (kind of) what I wanted the title to be. The original title...

Because of my author event tonight, there won't be a regular book review post. I apologize. They'll be back next week though! Tonight's...

The Easter Flower by Claude McKay Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, Where...

I'm from a small town. Actually, scratch that: I'm from a farm outside of a small town. When I first released The Girl with the Empty...

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...

It was a rough winter. Colder than usual, snowier than usual. I was okay with it until a couple weeks ago, and then enough was enough....

On March 17, 2017, I posted by very first blog post. I had spent the week previous setting up my website, researching blogs, and...

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,...

My first seasonal bucket list was about spring. You can read that here. It started a bit of a trend for me to think of what I'm most...

First of all, happy birthday, blog! Exactly one year ago today, I published my very first blog post. You can read that here, but I will...

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...

Recently I wrote about the difference between literary and genre fiction. The Girl with the Empty Suitcase is an example of literary...

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...