Happy Thursday, book lovers! It’s me, Ashley, again! I missed talking about the weekly book news round up! I am currently in that awful period of the semester when I have all my final essays due before exams start. So right now, the only thing I am reading is scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. Boring, I know….
Book Beat: Milo Cancelled, Tom Hanks and Black History Reading
Hi book lovers! This week is my reading week and to be quite honest, I haven’t done too much reading! That is, academic reading. I still have three more days so let’s see if I can pull it together and actually catch up on my textbook chapters.
Book Beat: Phillip Pullman, J.K Rowling and Warsan Shire’s Genius
Hi book lovers! I am back! Did you miss me? I missed you. I needed to talk a bit of a break last week because school and work got a bit overwhelming. Even the most put together and organized people crumble sometimes; last week was one of those times for me. When I was younger,…
Book Beat: Muslim Ban Lit & Canada Reads 2017
Hi book lovers! This week was hard in a multitude of ways, the Muslim Ban, the complete ignorance of the DAPL protests, and what they were for, added fuel to my fiery hate of Cheeto POTUS. So when I went to grab a book this weekend, I found myself turning to non-fiction, a genre I…
Dogears: My Best Friend’s Exorcism and Diabolic Angels
My Best Friend’s Exorcism Grady Hendrix Quirk Books May 16, 2016 The power of Diet Coke compels you! My Best Friend’s Exorcism is a nostalgic, sweet, and disgusting story about friendship, high school, and demons. There are a few tiny gaps in the narrative and plot, but I enjoyed this book more than I expected….
Thursday Book Beat: Roxane Gay Pulls Back
Hi, book lovers! I’m currently swamped at school with readings and work so not much reading got done this week! I was really sick the past sick, tis the season, and everyone at work is sniffling. The Academy Award nominees were announced, and I was happy to see Lion and Moonlight nominated for multiple awards!…
Thursday Book Beat: Truth and Reconciliation in Children’s Books
Hi book lovers! We’ve made it over the hump, and we’re almost at the end of another week. What a week it has been. I started classes again and thankfully don’t have many textbooks this semester! I might actually have time to dedicate to reading the texts I love. I’m also sort of in shock…
Book Beat: Black Market for Books While Hidden Figures Rises to the Top
Hi book lovers! So are we past saying Happy New Years yet? It’s the middle-ish of January, my university hasn’t resumed classes yet and I’m spending my free time trying to keep to my resolutions! I find that I always blame not reading enough during the school year on having to read textbooks and articles. This…
Thursday Book Beat: Boyden Controversy, Remembering Carrie Fisher and Twitter Troll Gets Book Deal
Happy New Years book lovers! Hope you all had a lovely holiday, I spent mine eating and sleeping and doing close to nothing — it was wonderful. New year, new me right? My two resolutions are to read more and dedicate time to reading and to save money. Not sure how those will go hand…
Books that Moved Us in 2016
2016 was kind of an odd year for books. There was a new Harry Potter (of sorts), more celebrity memoirs than we will ever need, and some Star Wars novelizations. A number of books were published to great acclaim—The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien and The Sellout by Paul Beatty, to name…
Movies That Moved Me In 2016
I’m not particularly interested in Best Of lists. After the third list it gets stale and instead of discussing art that moved us, the discourse instead seems to focus on who wrote the best list, what rank the obviously good things appeared in. So this year I asked our writers to tell me about the…
Thursday Book Beat: South Asian KidLit, Handmaiden’s Tale Adaptation and Pantsuit Nation Book Controversy
Hi book lovers! The countdown to the holidays is here! I’ve finally lifted my head from my textbooks, finished my exams and am now working as much as I can to pay for all the gifts I’m buying (because Christmas is a capitalist holiday in the Western world). I’m headed up to my godmother’s cottage…