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November 6, 2017

Discussion Questions – The Nix

  Discussion Questions The Nix By Nathan Hill Why do you think that the author chose to call his novel The Nix? At the beginning of […]
November 4, 2017

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (A Review by Sharron McKenzie)

Rating: 5/5* Thirteen year old Jojo is trying hard to grow up in the Mississippi Delta. Blessed with parents like his feckless, drug-addicted mother Leonie, and […]
November 2, 2017

Win Win Win!

Toronto Ladies! We hope you’ll enter to win two tickets to see Amanda Lindhout (Author of A House In The Sky) and her mother Lorinda Stewart […]
November 2, 2017

Trust No Aunty by Maria Qamar (A Review by Aimee Silver)

  Rating: 4/5* This was a quick, sassy and cheeky read. I enjoyed learning more about another culture and drawing parallels with aunties in my own […]
October 31, 2017

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (A Review by Sharron McKenzie)

Rating: 5/5* On reading Home Fire, it quickly became clear that this was not going to be a novel with a happy ending for its characters. […]
October 26, 2017

A House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout (Review by Erin Woodward)

This book was released in 2013 – but I have a very good reason to be reviewing it now. Which I’ll let you know at the […]
October 24, 2017

The Alice Network Discussion Questions

  Discussion Questions The Alice Network by Kate Quinn 1. Female friendship is a constant theme throughout THE ALICE NETWORK. Charlie St. Clair and Eve Gardiner […]
October 23, 2017

A Beautiful Terrible Thing by Jen Waite (Review by Erin Woodward)

  This is a very quick bitesize read. Jen Waite, meets and marries a man, Marcus, to whom her love knows no bounds. It’s the first […]
October 20, 2017

The History of Bees by Maja Lunde (A Review by Janice Carkner)

  Rating: 3.5/5 The History of Bees shares the story of three individuals whose stories take place in different countries and at different times: England, 1852; […]