It is such an honour to be a part of the Canadian blog tour for Kiersten White’s Slayer! Thank you so much Simon and Schuster Canada for asking me to participate and for sending me a physical ARC to read and photograph! As some of you may know, I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer when I was younger and… Read More Slayer by Kiersten White (Blog Tour: ARC Review & Author Written Piece)
Since the first few Book Birthday posts in this series were such a hit, I will keep these posts coming! Here are the books on my radar that are celebrating their Book Birthdays today (a.k.a. books that are being published in Canada today)! Happiest of Book Birthdays to all of these books! Please let me know if you… Read More Book Birthdays: January 8, 2019
After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control… Read More The Wicked King by Holly Black (ARC Review)
Hello everyone, and Happy New Year! Also, welcome to my first Calendar Girls Books post of 2019! This month, our prompt is 2019 Release You’re Most Looking Forward To, and making a choice was quite difficult! I initially picked The Wicked King by Holly Black too, but then had to change this post last night because I actually… Read More Calendar Girls (January 2019): Happy New Year (2019 Release You’re Most Looking Forward To)
When a little girl is given a penguin suit, she decides that living as a penguin is much more fun than just dressing as one. Penguins don’t ride the bus like people do, they don’t talk like people do, and they certainly don’t eat fish sticks like people do. Her family tells her, “You’re not actually a penguin.” But she knows that she ACTUALLY is. A hilarious new picture book about using your imagination — but also knowing that sometimes your costume needs to be washed!… Read More I Am Actually a Penguin by Sean Taylor and Kasia Matyjaszek (Review)
A deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Jane Austen classic featuring a selection of recipes for tea-time treats by the one and only Martha Stewart!… Read More Penguin Random House’s Book-To-Table Classics (Multiple Book Reviews)
In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she’s been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman in the forest. Then everything changes.… Read More In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt (ARC Review)
Welcome to my Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month blog post for January 2019! (Oh my gosh 2018 went by quick!) If you’ve been following my Instagram, you might have noticed that I’ve been posting about the Indigo Teen Staff Picks since November 2017. I started talking about these picks in January 2018, and have… Read More Indigo Teen Staff Pick: January 2019
Highlighting notable and inspiring women from across the globe and throughout time, The A-Z of Wonder Women features biographies of trailblazers and groundbreakers, including Ada Lovelace, Oprah Winfrey, Ruth Ginsberg, and Wajeha al-Huwaider.… Read More The A-Z of Wonder Women by Yvonne Lin (Review)
It’s almost 2019! When did that happen?! And where did 2018 go? I feel like it went by so fast! Anyway, here is what’s happened on Flavia the Bibliophile during the last month of 2018! What were your favourite reads of December, and 2018 in general?