Young Adult
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Must Read Monday (57): YA from Nina LaCour, Robin Roe & Katie Kennedy
Welcome to another edition of Must Read Monday! This feature is where I spotlight older, recent, or upcoming releases I am looking forward to. The lists will include all genres I like to read, everything from picture books to comics, children’s lit to adult fiction! This week: new and upcoming young adult fiction titles on Read more
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Review: If This Is Home by Kristine Scarrow
Review: If This Is Home by Kristine Scarrow Source: ARC courtesy of Dundurn Press. Thank you! Canadian Publication: January 28, 2017 by Dundurn Press Book Description: When her mom is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Jayce searches for her estranged father, hoping he can fix everything. Jayce Loewen has had to take on a lot of Read more
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Blog Tour Stop: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti!
Welcome to one of the stops on the Raincoast Books blog tour for Chelsea Sedoti’s contemporary YA debut, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett! Read on for my thoughts on the book as well as a special Q & A with Chelsea! The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti Source: ARC courtesy of Read more
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Coming up: Blog Tour for The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett!
What a week, folks! The New Year started off brilliantly with a dinner out and a trip to the theatre to see the gorgeous and moving La La Land and then…cue sad trombone music. I’ve been trying to recuperate from a dragging-on illness and then our little one got sick as well. It was a Read more
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Best of 2016: YA, Adult Fiction & Non-Fiction
Now it’s time for part two of my ‘Best of 2016’ reads: this post’s focus is all about young adult and adult fiction. I feel that, while my reading year was overwhelmingly picture books and middle grade lit, there was so much depth and matter in the contained selection of YA and adult fiction I Read more
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Top Ten Tuesday: Recently Added To My To-Read List!
Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week: title you’ve added recently to your to-read list. Well, this topic doesn’t require much preamble- I’m always and forever adding to my to-read list! Here, in no particular order, are some of Read more
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Top Ten Tuesday: If Your Book Club Likes…Contemporary Canadian Lit
Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week is all about titles you’d pick if your book club liked a particular genre. I decided to go with contemporary Canadian lit (a mix of adult fiction, YA and middle grade) for Read more
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Blog Tour: Speed of Life by J.M. Kelly
Welcome to one of the stops on the Raincoast Books blog tour for J.M. Kelly’s contemporary YA title, Speed of Life! Read on for my thoughts on the book as well as a special excerpt from the novel! Speed of Life by J.M. Kelly Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: October 11, Read more
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Upcoming Blog Tours: Everton Miles is Stranger Than Me & Speed of Life
This week I have two blog tours I am participating in, and I wanted to share some information about the tours as well as the books! The first tour, coming up on October 13th, is courtesy of Dundurn Press for Philippa Dowding’s middle grade title Everton Miles is Stranger Than Me. Canadian author Philippa Dowding Read more
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Blog Tour: Secrets in the Snow by Michaela MacColl
Welcome to one of the stops on the Raincoast Books organized blog tour for Michaela MacColl‘s latest historical YA title, Secrets in the Snow: A Novel of Intrigue and Romance! Be sure to check out the other stops on the tour! Review: Secrets in the Snow: A Novel of Intrigue and Romance by Read more
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