books & social justice
Look folx. I know there are seventy gillion think pieces about everyone’s favourite Christmas song, Baby It’s Cold Outside. But this isn’t really that. People love to debate about otherwise insignificant things and leave the…
I haven’t been doing a ton of reading in the last couple of weeks. I haven’t been doing anything particularly constructive though, either. What I have been doing though, is binge listening to tons of podcasts.…
For the last two, almost three, years I’ve worked in a public library. I started at the bottom as what we call a clerk—i.e. someone who shelves books—and have been working my way up. I’ve…
The last two weeks have a been a struggle. Even if you’re not an American (and I’m not), the election of the next President of the United States has had a huge impact. Daily,…
Photo via Unsplash My dear friends of the blogosphere, There has been something I have been struggling with for a while: blogging. If you’ve stuck around this far,…
I don’t know if you recall, but in a previous post I mentioned that I was moving. Said move occurred two weeks ago. This is not just any move. This is the move. The…
I am a mood reader. All the way. There is no way I’m sticking to a TBR. This is especially difficult when it comes to review copies, but that’s a topic for another day. I’ve…
Life has been super weird lately. Things had been going pretty well, everything seeming to fall into place. Then I felt a familiar, unwelcome twinge. I could sense a shadow lurking around the corner, waiting…
Hey guys, let’s catch up. This is inspired in part by the “If We Were having Coffee” posts on The PerpetualPage-Turner. It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted anything. And even when I was…
Boys will be boys. What did she expect? She probably just regrets it. She wanted it. She was asking for it. What was she wearing? She was just drunk. Consent, rape, and rape culture have…
I had a blast in Mexico, guys! It was so much fun. Way too short, obviously, and it went by too fast, but it was great. I got to spend some time with family and…
How do you decide what to read next? For me this is often a time-consuming problem. I’m a mood reader–and I can be very moody. Sometimes I know right away what I want to read next.…
Earlier this week (November 3rd), the first book in Pintip Dunn’s new series was released. It’s called Forget Tomorrow and it is a YA Dystopian. I read this book in October, and, I gotta say,…
Readers are as different from one another as the books we read. We all have our own preferences and way of doing things. As I explore the book community more, I see more and more of…
This week is banned books week. Hooray! I think this is an excellent thing. It brings the ideas of censorship, privilege, power, and fear to the forefront of our thinking and can make for some…
