Book Review: Ru by Kim Thuy
When I heard that the winner of the 2015 Canada Reads contest was Ru: A Novel by Kim Thuy, I was a little shocked. The buzz around the literary world was that Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian was being touted…
Book Review: Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest & Coloring Book by Johanna Basford
Growing up I loved to color. We had video games and a television but I grew up in a time when only about an hour of screen time was the average for the day. No Internet, iPads or cell phones. My…
Book Review: On Immunity by Eula Biss
I want you to think about a time when you had a really bad headache. A headache so bad that you couldn’t get out of bed and you truly felt that your head was going to explode. Now take that…
Book Review: AsapScience by Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown
What did I get myself into? I started reading AsapScience; Answers to the World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors and Unexplained Phenomena by Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown. I thought that this was going to be another book like What If?…
Book Review: Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
I have read many business books in my years studying Advertising and Communications when I was in college. They were all the same. If you have trouble falling asleep, grab a business book. They knock you right out. Why is…
Teen Challenge Overview and The Winner Is….
I’m wrapping up the teen challenge with a blog post. I have to say it was a challenge. I normally read two to three books per week for reviewing alone. With work – I work a full time job outside…
Book Review: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
With this last review the Teen Book Challenge is over. I’m not going to lie, at first it was easy but then life started to get in the way (work, eating, sleeping and a really bad cold) and the last…
Book Review: Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
The penultimate book for the teen book challenge lands us in modern day Boston. Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan is a glimpse into a year of the life of Leila, a sixteen year old Persian…
