Reading Adventure 2015 Round-Up

Posted on January 10, 2016

Woohoo, finished the whole card! I know you think it was easy for me because I made up the categories, but I promise you, it wasn’t. Sure, there were a couple of categories where a bunch of books would have suited, but some of the books I consumed in 2015 I wouldn’t have otherwise read. Continue reading →

Reading Adventure Hints and Ideas, Part 1

Posted on February 9, 2015

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So we’re just over a month into 2015, how’s everyone doing with the Reading Adventure? I hope you’re not stressing about the categories – when I said “broad interpretation” I really meant it! Continue reading →

Who’s Ready to Read?!

Posted on January 6, 2015

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Bad news, guys. Random House is not offering up Reading Bingo this year. The good news is, there are plenty of other sites and blogs that have come up with reading challenges for 2015, ranging from a few tasks to well over a hundred. (Reading challenges seem to be quite popular these days!) But the bad news is, I didn’t really like any of those. So the best news of all is, I made one just for us! Continue reading →

“…I don’t really get the appeal of YOLO. I live many times over. Hypothetical, subterranean lives that run beneath the relative tedium of my own and have the power to occasionally penetrate or even derail it. I find it hard to name the one book that was so damn delightful it changed my life. The truth is, they have all changed my life, every single one of them—even the ones I hated.”

~ Zadie Smith

			Lovely readers, let’s take a sec to acknowledge that the land where I sit to write this blog is the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Anishinaabeg, and is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. It’s part of the Dish with One Spoon treaty, an agreement among Indigenous nations and newcomers to peaceably share and care for the land. Toronto is home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island, and I am grateful to be able to live, work and celebrate literature here.
Join me in decolonizing our reading lives – we can do this by seeking out, reading and supporting the work of First Nations, Métis and Inuit writers, and authors from many diverse communities whose work has traditionally been disadvantaged by colonialism.


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A blog about books 'n' such

Category: Reading Adventure

Reading Adventure 2015 Round-Up

Reading Adventure Hints and Ideas, Part 1

Who’s Ready to Read?!