Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I’ve been abandoning books more regularly these past few months. Have any of you noticed the same thing about your reading habits Here are ten books that I recently started reading but couldn’t finish for reasons I’ll explain below. 1. Nests, Eggs, Birds: An Illustrated Aviary by Kelsey Oseid… Read More
Why I Blog About Multiple Topics
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Edited on May 13, 2020 to include two responses to this post: On Blogging and Requiem on Blogging. I’ve been blogging on various sites more or less continuously since I was in college. It started after I read a friend’s blog and realized I could do that, too. Several of the blogs I worked on… Read More
Hopeful Science Fiction: The Burn
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Click on the tag “hope” at this bottom of this post to read about all of my suggestions for hopeful science fiction. If you have recommendations for future instalments of this series, I’d sure like to hear them. Leave a comment below or send me message about it on Twitter. Earlier this year, I discovered… Read More
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Favourite Holiday of the Year and Why
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Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year. Halloween is by far my favourite holiday of the year for the following reasons: There Is Assorted Candy. I only eat candy occasionally, but when I do… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Things I’d Have at My Bookish Party
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl 1. Mainstream authors would be welcome, too, but I’d put a special focus on inviting indie authors so everyone could have the chance to discuss books they might never have otherwise heard of. 2. A dance floor and a DJ. 3. Charcuterie boards that have plenty of food and… Read More
Creative Star Trek Parodies to Watch for Expanded SFF Month
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Earlier this year I learned that May is Expanded Science Fiction and Fantasy Month. This challenge is a simple one. Pick any science fiction or fantasy universe and read or watch stories that were set in it but that were not part of the original canon. To give one example, you could read Star Trek… Read More
Military Science: A Review of 1NG4
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Title: 1NG4: A Long Short Story Author: Berthold Gambrel Publisher: Self-Published Publication Date: January 11, 2019 Genres: Science Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Length: 51 pages Source: I received a free copy from the author Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Gunnar is part of a team studying a powerful new energy source aboard the seaborne platform Ryojin.… Read More
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Reasons Why I Stopped Reading a Series I Loved
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Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year. I deeply enjoyed Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon, so it came as a surprise to me when I failed to finish the rest of… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish I Had Read as a Child
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl My list is a short one this week. One of the things my parents did marvellously when I was growing up was providing their kids with a wide range of reading material. I read just about everything I could get my hands on. There are a few titles I… Read More
A Photo Essay of Toronto in April
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This is the third instalment of a photography series I started earlier this year. Each month I share photos from one of the parks in Toronto to show my readers what our landscape looks like throughout the year. Click on February and March to read my earlier posts. Shortly after my March post went live,… Read More
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