Tag: book blog

— calendar girls —

Calendar Girls (January 2019): Happy New Year (2019 Release You’re Most Looking Forward To)

January 7, 2019

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)

— book review, children's, picture book —

I Am Actually a Penguin by Sean Taylor and Kasia Matyjaszek (Review)

January 6, 2019

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)

— Adult, ARC review, book review —

In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt (ARC Review)

January 3, 2019

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)

— monthly wrap-up —

Monthly Wrap-Up (December 2018)

January 1, 2019

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?

— ARC review, book review, young adult —

An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker (ARC Review)

January 1, 2019

When Lady Katherine’s father is killed for being an illegally practicing Catholic, she discovers treason wasn’t the only secret he’s been hiding: he was also involved in a murder plot against the reigning Queen Elizabeth I. With nothing left to lose, Katherine disguises herself as a boy and travels to London to fulfill her father’s mission, and to take it one step further–kill the queen herself.… Read More An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker (ARC Review)

— book birthdays —

Book Birthdays: December 31, 2018

December 31, 2018

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)! Please let me know if you have any feedback and/or suggestions for this series!

— TBR post —

January 2019 TBR

December 30, 2018

Hello everyone! And welcome to my January 2019 TBR post! Are you ready for 2019? And what are you most excited to read in the new year! For those of you who have kept an eye on my reading progress and my TBR lists for September to December 2018 might know that I fell behind… Read More January 2019 TBR