Can you believe it’s basically summer? I almost feel excited this year but I think that’s just because we’ve been inside for nearly 15 months. In reality, you know Gen and I are vampires and hate summer and the sun. BUT that doesn’t mean we don’t get excited for summer …
I don’t know about you, but I love to reread my favourite books. It’s a somewhat controversial opinion. Some readers wonder why you’d waste your time on a book you’ve already read when you could be reading something from your never-ending TBR pile. I get it. I always feel a …
Are film adaptations a genre? They should be. And whatever they are, I love them. Yes, I’m aware how controversial that is in the bookish world but I’m coming from the film school world. It started with a class called “Film and Literature.” We weren’t always reading the exact book …
Well, here we are again. Stay at home orders. Lockdown. Whatever it is we’re calling it these days. If you’re in Toronto, like we are, you never really left. Either way, the pandemic fatigue is real and we miss the days of travelling, so in the meantime we’ll have to …
It’s happening. Another birthday in lockdown and this one is a big one. I’m not always excited about my birthday but this one was going to be special. I was going to go to New York City and celebrate my 40th birthday in style. I, however, will be celebrating at …
People are always asking me—how do you read so much? Meanwhile I’m over here trying to figure out how I can read even more because my TBR pile is starting to rival Mt. Everest. My greatest tragedy in life is knowing that I’ll probably never be able to read all …
Can you believe we’ve been in quarantine for a year? Ugh. Thankfully we have Instagram and the wonderful Bookstagram community to fill the hours with awesome bookish content. Living alone (asides from the #podcat) through this past tumultuous year felt lonely at times. But following these amazing bookstagrammers has helped …
Do you ever pick up a book and wonder, why have I never read this author before? And then you want to read every book that author has ever written? If you read Jette’s post about James Baldwin, you’ll know he’s one of those authors for us. He’s just one …
Have you ever read a book by an author and been so blown away you couldn’t formulate words? Then you immediately purchase four more of their books? And then you make a list of every single piece they’ve written so you can start a collection? And perhaps you started clearing …
Normally I’m the queen of the backlist. Even when I worked at a bookstore I didn’t read new book releases until several years after they were published. The only exceptions to this were new books in a series I was already reading. I’ll admit—I used to purposely avoid books with …
