November 2021 Reads

My reading has really slowed down, but I did finish my 52 books this month! Fiction Bad Girls Never Say Die (Jennifer Mathieu)Publicized as a gender flipped take on The Outsiders, I think that description wasn't super accurate. While it does involve the rich vs wrong-side-of-the-tracks and a murder committed to save someone, the story…

What I Learned Doing an Audio Book

I have never been able to get into audio books. I have a huge problem listening to narration and retaining information. I always did better in lectures when the notes followed the lecture closely. I just don't seem to be able to comprehend audio books in the same way others can, so they have never…

Self Publishing for Canadians is now an audiobook

If you are a reader who commutes a lot, audiobooks might be your jam. I have personally never been able to get into them (I can't retain spoken info as well as written), but I'd had people asking, and here it is - Self Publishing for Canadians is now available in audiobook format on Audible,…

October 2021 Reads

I didn't get a lot of reading done this month. Blame it on AMC movie marathons and colouring apps lol. Fiction And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)I had never read any Agatha Christie books before this. This book basically set the stage for every locked room mystery from Clue to Knives Out. I didn't…

September 2021 Reads

I have 17 unread physical books, and yet I keep buying digital ones. I feel like I'll never get through my TBR list. I don't know if it's having a weakened attention span or needing to think more because of brain fog, but I find I have to read a chapter and then stop and…

August 2021 Reads

I'm so close to finishing my challenge for the year. I recently found my resolution list and I mentioned I wanted to read all of Jane Austen, so we'll see if that happens lol. Fiction River of Lies (B.C. Blues, #5) (R.M. Greenaway)This is probably my second favourite in the series. A baby goes missing,…

Books of my Childhood

From A Light in the Attic to Jessica Wakefield dying her hair black and pretending she's French, I read a lot of books I loved in my childhood.

July 2021 Reads

I read a lot of non fiction last month, so I'm going to try more fiction this time around. I am really, really late posting this up. Blame the sun trying to kill us, forest fire smoke and general lethargy. Fiction First Bones (Temperance Brennan, #0.5) (Kathy Reichs)This novella focuses on how Tempe Brennan ended…

My Big Word Migration of 2021

I am weird with technology. In some ways, I am fairly modern. I have a smartphone, stream TV shows, can use TikTok and all of my calendar is online. In other ways ... I am ridiculous. I have been using Office XP for almost 20 years. Why? The biggest reason was because I had it,…

June 2021 Reads

I'm on track to read more than the 52 books I've set out to read in the year. Fiction Loveless (Alice Oseman)Set at a UK college, we follow Georgia Warr, who is sorting out her sexuality while rooming with a sexually free girl her best friend Pip is crushing on. This was a wonderful book…