Disclaimer – I spent a few years as a soldier in the Canadian Scottish Regiment. I did my basic training and participated in the regular parades and exercises, but never served on a mission. That said, my view of war and soldiers is coloured by that as well as some family history in the military, […]
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A King’s Ransom is a beautifully written and researched novel about the last years of King Richard the Lionheart and the many, many interweaving stories of family members and alliances throughout Europe and the Middle East. We follow Richard from his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, all the way to the grave. We follow his Mother, […]
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I decided to read Helen Oyeyemi’s 2011 release, Mr. Fox, after recently enjoying her newest book, Boy, Snow, Bird. I had never heard of Oyeyemi before, mostly because I wasn’t involved in any reading communities that could have pointed me in her direction. What I have found, is that this author writes in such a […]
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I’ve always loved to read. When I was seven years old, my parents encouraged me to read bigger and more grown up books, like Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House collection, which I completed with enthusiasm. I was never in doubt about my reading skills, because I always had people in my life who reminded me […]
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Paper Towns was a fun, fast paced story. John Green has some really interesting ways of putting words together, making for some really good laughs and had plenty of teenage angst, for those of you who thrive on such feelings of oppression and hard-done-by-ness. However, I also found myself thinking, “that doesn’t seem like something that […]
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