Discovering Karin Slaughter

Day 2’s book is officially The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter but it’s really about much more than that. Try Karin’s Slaughters entire collection of novels!  I travelled a ton for work this year and I often read on planes but I don’t want to carry heavy books in addition to my suitcase and my computer bag …

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

I found this novel so captivating! I often think that I don’t really care for historical fiction and I’m not sure why that idea is in my head, especially after reading The Alice Network. The word that actually popped into my head as I read along was “delightful” but that’s not exactly the right kind …

Guest Blogger: All About Sandra Boynton

I was looking for a baby gift and while looking through the board books section at Indigo recently, I came across an author I had completely forgotten about. Sandra Boynton is an American humorist, song writer and author/illustrator. When I was teaching, I used some of her stories with my reluctant grade one readers, and …

The Prey Series by John Sandford

I have been intending to share my favourite series and up to this point, I’ve only shared one – Greg Iles’ Penn Cage series. It’s certainly way up there in terms of my favourites but so is the Prey Series by John Sandford. I started to read when I was very young and then started …

Guest Blogger | Children’s Lit: All About David Shannon

One of my favourite ways to introduce a new concept to my students was to find a funny, appealing story. One of my best finds was A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. I used this tale about the problems Camilla Cream encounters as she prepares for the first day of school to ease …

Vacation Series | The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

A few years ago I read a book called Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty and I enjoyed it immensely. It had an element to it that was almost soapy (as in soap opera) but it went deeper into the lives of the three main characters. Because it’s coming to HBO (Sunday evenings starring Reese …

Guest Blogger | Children’s Lit: All About Robert Munsch

As it’s a new year and one of my resolutions is to read more to get more people to read, I’ve been trying to think of some new content ideas for my blog. If you’ve been following from the start, I’m a book lover and I blog about books that I’ve enjoyed reading. If it …

milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

This book was on my holiday wish list and I wrote the following about it back in November about why I wanted it: milk and honey by Rupi Kaur – I’ve seen this book on a variety of different lists and I keep making note of it. I feel like I don’t read enough poetry …

I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb

My first book of the year and one I was really looking forward to reading! Lucky me, it was under the tree, but the past couple weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind so I haven’t had much reading time. I made it up for it on Sunday morning as I sat with a …

My Holiday Book List

Books make the most wonderful gifts (to me)! I discovered a couple of years ago that I could make a list and promise not to buy the books on my list and they would be under the tree! So with that in mind, I made the following list and I thought it was worth sharing …