Where have I been? I have been hibernating. I have been curling into myself. I have been napping. I have been working. I have been hiding. I have spoken about my anxiety and depression in the past, so this is nothing new. Nothing insightful. Simply a confession that I have been picking myself back up.…

❤️❤️❤️ The End of Night is non-fiction look at the effects of light pollution on our world. Bogard numbers the chapters in reverse from 9 to 1, in honour of the Bortle Scale, while searching for pockets left in the Northern Hemisphere where absolute darkness can still be found and where the night sky is…

❤️❤️❤️❤️ David Wood’s investigative book What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars makes use of his experience as a journalist, war veteran and conscientious objector to Vietnam to study the effects of moral injury on combat veterans. Wood posits that PTSD and Moral Injury are two distinct but equally damaging wounds…

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Long before Audrey Hepburn made Holly Golightly a household name, Truman Capote wrote a short story about Miss Holliday Golightly, Travelling. Discussing homosexuality, independence, gender, love, anxiety, depression, and belonging, Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a subversive book. The heroine was endearing and unnerving- a runaway child bride – turned prostitute, living off of “tips”…

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Trevor Noah, now the host of the popular comedy news show The Daily Show, wrote a book of essays of his childhood growing up during and after apartheid in South Africa. The New York Times bestseller features both funny and touching accounts of growing up in a place where violence and racism are a…

I am home sick, and my kids found this book that they said was perfect for me at our neighbourhood Little Library. No, it’s not because of my all abiding love for the Beach Boys, or because they thought the cover looked interesting. They do not know what memoirs are. They thought it was perfect…

My province is in an official state of emergency. There are so many forest fires and so many evacuees that the entire province is in crisis. A full fire ban is in effect. IfYou are caught around an open flame, not just the person who started the fire, but all those around the fire will…

July 11, 2014 – do you remember what you were doing that day? Would you remember what you did if Facebook didn’t force the highlights of what you liked or shared that day?  I do. I can tell you exactly what I was doing that day. It was a hot, sunny day. My extended family…

❤️❤️❤️❤️ The fifth and as of yet, final published book from George RR Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice Series follows the adventures of the characters that were missing from A Feast For Crows – we find Tyrion, Jon Snow, Davos Seaworth, Danaerys, Theon Greyjoy, and a host of new POV characters as well;…

“I to know more about you! I see your profile and I adore you!” – complete strangers Since setting up my blog and public Instagram account for my book reviews, I have received countless private messages from men whom I do not know, professing a desire to know my age, marital status and whether I…