Every day, it feels like we're coming to the end of 2021. Every year, I question how quickly the days flew by, but this year, I truly mean it. 2020 felt looooooooong and 2021 feels both too long and too short. I'm grateful that the pandemic has really pushed me to start reading more. While
Although there are many picture books listed here, these are only the ones I'd recommend -- I read many more beyond these titles. There a good mix of light and serious books here, so I'm sure you could find something you're looking for. I had several standouts this month. Lubna and Pebble is about a
Clockwise from top left: Poultrygeist | Hardly Haunted | Vampenguin | You, S3 | Midnight Mass | Malignant| Till Death | The Djinn | Night House Last year's Halloween round up were things I wanted to read or watch., as well as a few things I was recommending for younger audiences. I got through 3 of the 15 things shared. So this year's round up are
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