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Canada Reads – Finale
What an amazing day!! What could be better than spending a great day with fellow book lovers including my daughter and friends at Canada Reads? After a bit of panic with a delay on the highway, we made it to … Continue reading
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Canada Reads – Day 3
Canada Reads is down to the final two. Both books are non-fiction and both tell harrowing tales, one of the horror of the Holocaust and the other the plight of a young refugee whose family had fled Iraq to the … Continue reading
Canada Reads – Day 2
Day 2 was full of great discussion and I was sad to see Suzanne be voted off. Although it was difficult to like the actions and decisions of Suzanne, it was a book that did move me to consider the … Continue reading
Canada Reads: Day 1
Canada Reads is the most exciting “book holiday” of my year!! I love the focus on CanLit, the competition, the strategy and the game show antics. I have enjoyed reading the books (well, most of them) and am so excited … Continue reading
January Book Review Blitz
3. Eat Move Think: The Path to a Healthier, Stronger January was a month of thinking about resolutions and Eat Move Think was the book to inspire a few changes. The book was a little light on research but it … Continue reading
2. Remember Us (Lindsay Blake/Layne James)
Did I tell you that my friend Layne has written a book? How amazing is that?? She is a busy mom, photographer and has recently went back to school to finish a masters program… yet somehow, she has found time … Continue reading
1. Bear Town (Fredrik Backman)
My apologies to the readers who follow this blog. Although I had good intentions to stay on track in 2019, the busy days have taken over so I have some catching up to do! I started 2019 with Bear Town. … Continue reading
2018 Review – update
For those of you that read my posts by email please note that the wonderful books that I have recommended seem to be mixed with those that I would suggest avoiding so please read the post here.
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2018: A Year of Books Review
It seems that 2018 has flown by! It was an year of less reading, many exiting author events and a hectic pace as I successfully ran for school board trustee (hence less reading). Did I meet all my reading goals? … Continue reading
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Book Review Blitz – December
Clearly, my blogging has been a bit behind this fall so I am catching up and providing mini-reviews of the last books of 2018 as we end the year. Tomorrow, I will post my reading highlights and lowlights of the … Continue reading
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