You know those books that are heavy on atmosphere? The ones with spooky houses and wild landscapes? The ones that feel like the setting itself is a character? Those are some of my favourites. In books where the setting is a character, the city or landscape or house has a …
Finally! It’s Autumn! There will be afghans, sweaters, knitting, hot beverages, and reading. With the breeze getting crisper everyday, I feel life in my lungs again. I ended up reading 3.5 of the 5 books on my summer TBR list and, considering the heat waves killing my brain, I take …
If you’ve been following the podcast for awhile, you’ll know that we love memoirs. Back in January, Jette wrote about her Top 5 Memoir Books, so I decided I should add to that list with my own top five. Like Jette, I tend to be drawn to memoirs that will …
All this time in quarantine got me thinking… About ways to be creative, and a nagging idea for a short film. Yes, by now you all know I went to film school so it’s about time I made something that wasn’t a silent, black and white, 16 mm actual celluloid …
We’ve all heard that you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but have you ever judged a book based on its length? I’ll admit that I’ve been guilty of leaving short books by the wayside because I have some half-formed notion that they won’t be as meaty or as …
You know we’re emo. You know we love rainy, gloomy days. It makes sense that we love a good “sad girl” book. You know, a book that doesn’t necessarily have a sad story (even though they often do) but one that makes you want to listen to Lana Del Rey, …
When we recorded our Summer Solstice hangout episode and wrote our Summer Update blog post, I realized I’d read a lot of the books I had on my Top 10 New Book Releases of 2021. Having a Kobo eReader has helped. I’ve been able to borrow ebooks from the library, …
We didn’t realize when we set a reading challenge for 2021 that the challenge would be actually, you know, reading. Who would have anticipated The Great Reading Slump of 2021? Reading feels impossible these days (The Slump is powerful), but we haven’t stopped adding more books to our TBR piles. …
It’s Pride month, so I thought I’d put together a list of books that celebrate queer joy. So often, queer stories revolve around trauma and tragedy, but we deserve happy endings, too. Pride is a protest, but it’s also a celebration, and these books reflect that. The following titles embrace …
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 …
