September is always a busy month. It's birthday month. It's back-to-school month. It's a change in seasons month. BUSY, BUSY, BUSY. No surprise that reading diminished significantly. The standout this month was Too Much Slime! This was so much fun to read, which a lot of sound effects. I'd pair this book with a DIY
August saw fewer romances, although I'm still on that Alyssa Cole train! Alisha Rai was really cute. This was the September book for The Happily Ever After Book Club. What I found interesting was how Rai skirts around COVID-19 and the global pandemic by hinting towards illness and isolation without outright stating global events. Dear
Wow -- I was busy reading in July! You'll notice that there's a lot of romance, specifically Alyssa Cole! I've mentioned The Happily Ever After Book Club before. It's a romance book club I run with a colleague (search us up on tpl.ca). A couple months ago we read the first book in one of
I've moved away from picture books this month, back towards romance novels. I run a romance book club at work, called the Happily Ever After book club, so romance titles are going to be part of my monthly reads going forward! This month saw 3 titles. I can't say that it'll always be this many,
Literally everything I read in May was a picture book. So many picture books! I re-read Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. It's one of my favourite picture books, and I adore Julián. The author published Julian at the Wedding in 2020, which is just as fantastic. Both of these are going into my
Well, April was very picture book heavy. It's been a struggle balancing working, reading, content creation and house hunting, all while trying to find a vaccine appointment. If you live outside Ontario, Canada, you may not know -- but it's been an extremely stressful pandemic, due to poor decision-making at the leadership level. All the
In March we saw an increase in violence against Asian communities, both in Canada and the US. It feels like every way we turn there is ignorance, racism and hate focused on someone we care about. In my daily life, I work in a library, and while my role isn't focused on children, I love
I have been busy, all swept up in Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series. I've just got the last book left -- Gregory Bridgerton. I've already started. I've found that I vaguely remember each story once I've started reading, but sometimes I remember better than others. If you don't know already, the identity of Mrs. Whistledown is
Well, 2020 ended without much reading and it took me awhile to get back into novels. I've certainly flipped through graphic novels and cookbooks. Yet it took binging the popular Bridgerton series on Netflix and a desire to revisit the romance novels the series is based on to get back into the swing of reading.
It’s been an incredibly stressful year for everyone, including the little ones in your life. They haven’t had as much social interaction as they require. Moreover, it’s really difficult and confusing for them to understand what’s going on. Now is the time to step up and be the aunties and uncles (or grandparents, or whoever)