On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein,comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history…… Read More Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s Creator by Catherine Reef (ARC Review)
Happy Tuesday, and happy Top Ten Tuesday day, everyone! This week’s prompt is a little different, in that it’s not about books at all! This week, we’re all talking about top TV shows and movies! I was going to focus just on movies or just on TV shoes, but then decided to give you a… Read More Top Ten Tuesday #55: Top Ten Favourite TV Shows & Movies
Welcome to my Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month blog post for September 2018! If you’ve been following my Instagram, you might have noticed that I’ve been posting about the Indigo Teen Staff Picks since November 2017. I started talking about these picks in January 2018, and have enjoyed discussing them all! Continue reading to… Read More Indigo Teen Staff Pick: September 2018
This is the second month that Calendar Girls has been back now, and I couldn’t be happier! This blog event has gone through some changes though. The hostesses have changed entirely from Melanie and myself, to our friends (and former Calendar Girls participants) Katie @ Never Not Reading and Adrienne @ Darque Dreamer Reads! I’m so… Read More Calendar Girls (September 2018): Back to School (Best Novel Set in a School)
Sooo, I’ve been saying this about every month this summer … but, where did August go?! And it’s weird, because I’m not enjoying the summer season as much as I usually do, so I should be happy about it ending, right? Maybe I have some leftover stress from when I used to go to school,… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (August 2018)
Welcome to my monthly TBR pile post. This month, I will not be featuring a tentative TBR because (as you will see) I have plenty of ARCs to get through over the course of the month. I’m also super excited about the coming of autumn, and autumn-y things like pumpkin scents (I featured my favourite… Read More September 2018 TBR
I am so overjoyed that I as invited to this event, and my anticipation and excitement were definitely worth it! This event lasted a little longer than some of the others that I’ve attended, but I actually preferred that because we had an hour to socialize before the presentation began, and I was able to… Read More Indigo YA Preview: Fall 2018 (Influencer Event Recap)
I was so happy to have been invited to HarperCollins Canada’s Frenzy Presents for Fall 2018! It was a lot of fun, and we got to hear and talk about a lot of exciting upcoming titles! So, I decided to put this post together to share with everyone how awesome it was, and also for… Read More HarperCollins Canada Ltd. Frenzy Presents: Fall 2018 (Influencer Event Recap)
A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era… Read More Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood (ARC Review)
A gorgeous picture book that tells a whimsical origin story of the phases of the moon, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin… Read More A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin (Review)