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Mini Book Reviews for May and June
Hello friends! Happy June Show Us Your Books! I just can’t stop won’t stop with my constant reading so I have a lot to share and many that I’ll just share over on my Goodreads instead. In fact, I think I’ve been doing more reading than reviewing and life took over a little bit in…
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Recent Books I’d Like to Rave About
Happy April, friends!! It is occasionally feeling like spring here, but not every day, so hopefully soon. I can’t believe it’s already Easter this weekend – I feel like I blinked and a couple of months disappeared on me, but that’s how life is sometimes. I’ve been reading up a STORM lately – lots of…
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The Books I’ve been Reading Lately and What I thought of them
Happy International Women’s Day!! Today I am happy to link up with two of my favourite book-loving women Steph and Jana to share the books I’ve read lately – which, coincidentally, are all written by women! lol. Happy Show us Your Books day!!! Books I’d Highly Recommend Bluebird by Genevieve Graham My rating: 5 of…
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A few short reviews of books I’ve read so far in 2022
After missing the January link up for Show us Your books (something I try NEVER to miss!) and missing the actual day (a few days ago) for February, I am still excited to share some brief thoughts on the excellent books I’ve read in the past couple of months! So far in 2022 I haven’t…
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A List of the Best Books I Read in 2021 (based on how they made me feel)
Hi Friends!! Even though we’re now a couple of days in 2022, I can’t let the end of 2021 pass me by without acknowledging what a phenomenal year of reading it was! I read 200 books, 100 of which were audiobooks. This doesn’t surprise me at all because I basically stopped taking public transit for…
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Some Christmas books, Some Powerful Fiction, and a few unexpected gems I read this month
Happy last official Show Us Your Books for 2021 – besides the “best of 2021” post in a couple of weeks!! This has been a great reading year. I’ve definitely done more audiobooks than ever before mostly due to driving to work instead of taking the bus, but I’ve enjoyed so many of them. Here’s…
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16 Great Ways To Access Audiobooks (Free and Paid!)
If you’ve known me for longer than 2 seconds, you know that I love audiobooks. This wasn’t always the case – I think I first listened to Pride & Prejudice via Librivox in about 2015 and then shortly after listened to The Martian on Audible and I was so so so hooked. I’ve evolved a…
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Recent Short Book Reviews of ARCs and Audiobooks (Show Us Your Books Link Up!)
Steph mentioned this on her Instagram stories the other day and I agree – where did this month of reading go?! It feels like we were all just here chatting about books for Show Us Your Books with Steph and Jana. I also feel like I’ve read nothing – which is far from true, but…
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Thankful for Books, Book Friends, and Book Chats. Happy B-day to the SUYB link up!
Hi friends! It was Canadian Thanksgiving this past weekend and we had a wonderful long weekend. The weather was 20 deg C all weekend and the leaves are out and ugh it was just such a happy and relaxing and lovely time. I also got a lot of reading in this past month and I…
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Fall Into Reading With Me – I can feel the cozy blanket now :)
Ok, ok, it’s not QUITE fall yet…I know. I’m actually not one of those people who likes to say goodbye to summer on August 31 but this year I am definitely feeling all the fall vibes with our weather in September. There’s something so great about this month too – I love the start of…
The Maritime Reader 