I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Like many stories of origin, the story of peace-making takes place in the teeth of its opposite. Civil life must be carefully built against the dark threat of distrust and violence. Part of the story told in this book is that the ideal …
“The cells of your body are dying and growing again every day, and you are always in the process of becoming something new. You’re not sure yet who you will be, but you are ready to find out,” (Stevenson ix). N.D. Stevenson looks back at eight years of their life (2011-2019) through mini comics and old …
“It’s an exquisite privilege to watch someone die, knowing you caused it. Almost worth getting dolled up for,” (Skuse). Rhiannon Lewis lives an average life. She lives with her boyfriend Craig in a nice enough apartment, adores her chihuahua Tink, collects Sylvanian family creatures, and is trying but failing to get ahead in her job working …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. After her grandmother dies, Kate Galway can’t help but thinking of her beloved aunt’s suicide fifty years before. No one on Meredith Island can forget it, not when Emma was so loved and had such a bright future ahead of her. While clearing …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “The first line/of my eulogy is this: ‘I would cross/the River Styx for you.’ I would,/I honestly would,” (Ramoutar 9, “Baby Cerberus”). Ramoutar’s newest poetry collection does a perfect job of balancing light-heartedness and grief, of looking back towards the past and finding joy …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “I tried to be happy, but sometime your own happiness comes at the expense of other people’s, doesn’t it? It’s hard to balance being both happy and considerate. I often tried to be both by lying, but that usually made it worse,” (Austin). …
“If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn’t forbidden, and they intervene, then it’s not the activity that’s attracting attention, it’s you yourself,” (Harpman 35). Thirty-nine women and one young girl are kept in a deep underground bunker and watched by guards. The …
I received this book from one of the authors in exchange for an honest review. “Hamilton General Hospital – 21 This is where I said goodbye to my mother. I wonder where my family will say goodbye to me,” (Hamilton – A Guidebook from Memory). Hamilton A Guidebook from Memory invites readers to explore the city of …
“It’s looking like I’m in more of a mystery now than a romance. Or maybe I’m in both. It’s all very exciting, plus a little bit creepy…I don’t pray but sometimes I talk with my mother, tell her…I’m living in one of those novels she used to like, and it’s only a matter of time …
“Maybe this is love, the things we endure for the other, the willingness to face death, to stare it down, and not be afraid,” (Ernshaw 216). Travis Wren has a gift for finding missing people, all he has to do is touch an object belonging to the missing person and he can get an image …
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