Hi book lovers! Hope your week has been snowy and magical or tropical and dreamy, whatever floats your happy boat. I have my last exam Friday, and I can feel the freedom. I’s so close. I also saw Fantastic Beasts on Tuesday and was very surprised at how much I liked it. I have a lot of…
Thursday Book Beat: Downie Honoured, Racist Children’s Book Parody and Cursed Child tops Amazon’s Bestseller List.
Hi book lovers! I am still in the middle of my exams, so I’m still only reading textbooks and am a ball of stress, coffee, and cookies. I can’t wait until I’m on break. I decided I need to dedicate time to reading, writing, and to me! I hope you all are making your lists,…
Thursday Book Beat: Life Lessons From Anne of Green Gables, Gilmore Girl Withdrawals and New GRRM?
Hi book lovers hope your week has been filled with holiday cheer no matter what you celebrate and good vibes whether you celebrate or not! I am compiling a list of books I must read over my winter break, including Swing Time by Zadie Smith and the novel the movie Arrival was based on, Story of Your…
Thursday Book Beat: Fantastic Beasts, Trump Trolls, and How to Avoid Family This Thanksgiving
Hi book lovers! I’m still holed up in the library studying but like Varys in Game of Thrones I have my little birds (Twitter and the internet) keeping me up to date. Sometimes I look at the books I have to read longingly and tell myself this is motivation to finish my papers! The one…
Book Beat- National Book Award, Children’s Fiction, and Zadie Smith
Hi book lovers! I know it’s not Thursday but I had a midterm exam yesterday and a presentation! The only thing I was reading was textbooks. Boring, I know! In exciting news, Colson Whitehead has won the National Book Award for his book, The Underground Railroad, a harrowing tale of American slavery and the lasting horrors of…
Literature and Trump’s Horrific Win, Giller Prize, and Some Hope
Well book lovers, it’s a very somber week for America and the world, and if you feel the same, I stand with you. I will fight this fight with everything I have, and I will continue to have hope for the future as that is all I can hold on to right now. I feel…
Thursday Book Beat: Hermoine’s Hiding Books, Writers Trust Awards, and Laws that Require Reading
Hi book lovers! Ashley here again! Did you miss me? I missed you! It was a heck of a week with midterm exams and my part time advocate job so unfortunately the only things I was reading were my textbooks and policy texts.
Thursday Book Beat: Dylan’s AWOL, Taraji’s New Book, And King Writes for Children!
Hi Book Lovers! I’m back from my vacation and in all honesty, all I did was eat pasta and look at beautiful architecture. I can’t complain. I loved Italy, Barcelona and each city was magnificent in it’s own way. I didn’t get to do much reading though between shuttling around cities, the next vacation will…
3 Fictional Characters That Describe Me: The WWAC Edition
As self-identified geek girls, lovers of pop culture, and general all-around fangurls, we couldn’t resist jumping on the #threecharactersthatdescribeme challenge.
Thursday Book Beat- Ferrante Drama, Spotlight on Indigenous Land Issues, and some MORE Literary Award Nominations
Happy Thursday, book lovers! The leaves are falling, the air is chilling, and the sweaters are being taken out of drawers. But I am packing for my vacation to Barcelona, Nice, and Italy for which I leave tomorrow! My mom tells me the leather in Florence is great, but if I’m spending big bucks on…
Thursday Book Beat: Banned Book Week, Giller Prize, and Bisexual Day!
Happy Thursday book lovers! Currently typing this as my dog sits beside me while passive aggressively pawing my keyboard. She’s like her mom that way. Unfortunately, I was sick this past weekend and I couldn’t make it down to the Word on the Street book and magazine festival in Toronto. I heard it was great…
Thursday Book Beat: Booker Prize, Community Reading Outreach, and Ian McEwan is Back!
Hi book lovers! Hope your week has been amazing so far! Toronto has settled down after the TIFF mania, and the city has fallen into a lull as we begin to prepare for the hibernation that will come with winter. You know what goes great with the fall season? Knit sweaters, lattes, and books!