You know those books that hook you right from the beginning and pull you through the whole story, page by page as you eagerly await to see how the author will wrap up the book? By the time you get to the end, you’re so invested that anything but the perfect ending will leave you…
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Book Review: Get the Behavior You Want Without Being the Parent You Hate
I knew about her before I got to know her. She was a parenting guru and she popped up all over the Internet. But what could she really offer me? I had given up all parenting books after I birthed my first born and realized that I could stress out about what the books said,…
Book Review: Rare Bird
“Why are you reading that?” Dan asked me, as I sat beside him on our bus trip home after work one day. There we were, in the middle of lots of people, all taking the same public transportation together, and tears were running down my face. “I’m reading this because I want to.” I answered….
Book Review: Tell The Wolves I’m Home
Do you remember being a kid? I remember when time felt infinite and space was not bound by walls. I remember when a daydream was as real to me as a trip to the grocery store with my Mom. Part of the growing up process means transitioning from that place to one where the reality of…
The Importance of Reading with Kids and a Disney Baby Giveaway
I was solo-parenting on Thursday night while Dan was away on a work retreat. I was absolutely dreading bedtime, knowing how my kids choose their bedtime behaviour based on which parent is dealing with them at the time. If I’m out and Dan’s parenting alone, they’re angels at bedtime. If I’m around though – well,…
Book Review: The Paris Wife
It seems fitting that this book review coincides with my Writing Vows summer guest blogging series on marriage. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain considers the topic of marriage as well as the role of women in such institution through the story of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley and their relationship. Get it on Amazon.com…
Book Review: The Invention of Wings
I’m sitting here trying to write about Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Invention of Wings. I know that there is so much to write about. I know that someone could write whole essays on individual paragraphs of this novel. But sometimes, when a book is just this full and this powerful, all I want to do…
Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. -The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Chapter 25 There’s a reason that The Fault in Our Stars has skyrocketed to the top of best seller charts. This young-adult fiction is a gripping,…
Book Review: The Rosie Project
I have to admit to writing my reviews a little bit out of order. I read The Rosie Project way back in September, right after reading Love Anthony. The reason why this fact is important is because I have been gobsmacked all year over the continuity between each new book I pick up. (Also, to…
Book Review: Me Before You
I have found it: A book that is in contention for being one of my favourite books read in 2013. It will undeniably be in my Top 3, up there beside The Light Between Oceans and The Husband’s Secret (review to come in the coming months). It was a book that I could not put…
Book Review: The Silent Wife
“A few short months are all it will take to make a killer out of her.” (Chapter 1) I picked up The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison because it was suggested that I would like this book if I liked Gone Girl. A few paragraphs into the first chapter was all I needed to realize that…