Book Review: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
As I stated in my first blog post, I have a messy desk. But the mess doesn’t stop there. I am a busy mom of three and I want to learn to clean my house more efficiently. I know where everything…
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: 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…
Book Review: Rebels By Accident by Patricia Dunn
As we near the end of the challenge, book five takes us to modern day Egypt. In a world with so much access to information and history, the youth in the modern day know very little of their family heritage.…
Book Review: The Young Elites by Marie Lu
Book four takes us into the 1300’s in the land of Kenetira. This is a land loosely based on Spain, during the years before the Spanish Inquisition. Like the Spaniards of the 1300’s, the people look to destroy the Malfettos (young…
Book Review: The Selection by Kiera Cass
The first of the Teen Reads Challenge titles takes me into the future. It doesn’t say the year but the mention of World Wars that haven’t occurred and the name changes of the States leads me to believe that this…
The Teen Book Review Challenge
I have been writing and reviewing Tech products and books and I have had a wonderful time doing so. When Rebecca invited me to try my hand at writing for her blog I must say I was a little nervous.…
Book Review: What If? By Randall Munroe
In the realm of questions there a lot of variables. Questions be close ended with simple yes or no’s for answers. Questions be more complex leading you to check your watch if someone asks you what time is it? Then…