Category: Books
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Two years, baby!
WordPress says I’ve been a blogger for two years today. Not a very good one, but there you go. To celebrate, here’s a photo of my Brindle & Glass books in their red chair prison. Also, my nephews, my birthday plant, and my after Christmas Christmas lights. I like it.
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Insta
I got a new mug for my birthday and I love it so much that it inspired me to whip up a new Instagram account for TouchWood Editions and Brindle & Glass. Find us @twe.bg.
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Winter by Marissa Meyer
Typically, when I have to wait for a long while between books in a series, I lose interest and drop it. But I am glad that I powered through to finish Meyer’s Lunar Chronicals (minus Fairest, which is still on my list). With this last book, it became very clear that Meyer had a solid, entertaining,…
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Book Challenge 2015 revisited
December 31 and I’m finally finished my 2015 reading challenge. I feel like I’ve accomplished so much. And because I feel like this accomplishment should be acknowledged by everyone commemorated, I thought I’d do a little review before jumping into 2016. So, without further ado: Total books read: 49 Total authors read: 38 Total books…
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
A stunning love letter to pianos: “We invest it with our dreams, we touch it offhandedly as we walk by, we crown it with favorite photos and treasured objects until it becomes a kind of domestic shrine. But when it is gone from our lives, it can’t really be replaced, not for what it encompasses as…
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
I do believe I’ll read more Hemingway in the future. I quite enjoy his witty characters and staccatoed sentences. Besides, he wrote this: “I drank a bottle of wine for company … A bottle of wine was good company.” I think we would have gotten along splendidly. No. 25 on my challenge. This year marks…
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Lyrics and Poems by John K. Samson
I won’t lie, I read this strictly because my book challenge called for a book of poems. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it—some of my favourite songs by the Weakerthans are in this book—poetry just isn’t my first love… or my second, or third. No. 15 on my challenge. It’s no coincidence that this book came…
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Reblog – Do You Think This Is Strange? by Aaron Cully Drake
This review is too good not to share. Find the original on Goodreads. Do You Think This Is Strange? by Aaron Cully Drake This is absolutely the best book I’ve read this year. Every now and again there is a novel that can change the way you view the world. For me, the first book that did…
Being Tori 