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August 12, 2016

Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Overall Rating: ★★★★ This seems to be one of the most polarizing tales in this universe. You will notice I do not say novel, because what some people seem to forget is that this is NOT a novel. It is the script of a play which, let’s face it, most of us will be unable to… Continue reading

Book List 2016, Reviews

Genre: Fantasy, Genre: Play, Series: Harry Potter

August 11, 2016

Review: The Orange Cat and Other Cainsville Tales by Kelley Armstrong

Overall Rating: ★★★★ I love Liv. I really love Liv and so I was glad to be able to get a sneak peak at her life as she travels through Cape Breton with Ricky (who I also love, but maybe not as much as Gabriel). The two of them of course find trouble, because what does… Continue reading

Book List 2016, Reviews

Author: Kelley Armstrong, Genre: Fantasy

August 10, 2016

Review: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Overall rating: ★★★ I would love to be one of those people who judges the main character for being vapid, silly and a little bit stupid but in all honesty I cannot because I, in a way, was that girl. Though I never harboured feelings for my sister’s bf. Partly because she’s 9 yrs older than… Continue reading

Book List 2016, Reviews

Author: Jenny Han, Genre: Romance, Genre: YA Fiction

August 9, 2016

Rapid Reviews: Stephanie Plum 7-9

Overall rating: ★★★ and 1/2 Rapid review 1: Seven Up by Janet Evanovich This book is a quick fun read, and perhaps contains some of the menacing air of the first novel as Decooch is a sick old man. I loved the return of Mooner. Lula remains a disappointing almost racist caricature and there is no… Continue reading

Book List 2016, Reviews

Author: Janet Evanovich, Genre: Comedy, Genre: Mystery, Genre: Romance, Series: Stephanie Plum

August 8, 2016

Review: Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper

Overall rating: ★★★★★ This books is so well written that I wasn’t surprised to find myself crying quite frequently while reading it. It is a very honest view of how bad the world can be, and yet shows the slightest little glimmer of hope. It is easy to feel how Anderson Cooper changed, the more he… Continue reading

Book List 2016, Reviews

Author: Anderson Cooper, Genre: Non-Fiction

August 7, 2016

Nostalgia Reads: Goodnight Kiss 1 & 2 by R.L. Stine

Oh good lord. Oh good lord how ridiculous and fun are these two novels? These are not the Twilight vampires of todays age, nor are they the Buffy the Vampire style vampires of the 90s and early 00s. That being said, the vampires in this novel seemed to be parodies of the monstrous characters.… Continue reading

Book List 2016, Nostalgia

Author: R.L. Stine, Genre: Supernatural

August 6, 2016

Review: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Overall Rating: ★★★ This version of the Bennet family—and Mr. Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati… Continue reading

Book List 2016, Reviews

Genre: Humour, Genre: Romance, Reviews

July 8, 2016

The best book I will read in 2016

This is the best book I am going to read this year. It’s a good thing I love to read or otherwise I would just stop now. Gloria Vanderbilt is an amazing woman, and one who I think needed to have her story told, or at the very least she is someone I needed to… Continue reading

Book List 2016, Reviews

Author: Anderson Cooper, Genre: Biography, Genre: Non-Fiction, Reviews

June 26, 2016

Nostalgiac Reads 1: Hear No Evil by Kate Chester

When I was much younger than I am now, a heroine by the name of Sara Howell was brought to my attention, and I was told that she was awesome because she too was a “little bit different.” Sara Howell is the teen protagonist in Kate Chester’s Hear No Evil series, and she is deaf. She… Continue reading

Nostalgia, Reviews

Author: Kate Chester, Genre: Mystery, Nostalgia Reads, Series: Hear No Evil

June 15, 2016

Is it still nostalgia if you can hold it in your hands?

So is it? Recently I’ve been reading some books which I loved in my childhood and I don’t know why. I’ve smiled while reading about old, steady characters, and stroked the pages of books I’ve bought in used bookstores (both online and not), and in one amazing moment laughed out loud when I found that… Continue reading

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