Comfort Reading to Brighten Blue Monday

It’s that time of year again. The Christmas lights are down but the world is still cold and dark (especially if you foolishly moved to Canada - hello weekend snowstorm). The pubs have stopped serving mulled wine and we’re stuck with several more months of winter without Christmas, which is essentially what made Narnia so …

Is it Worth Paying for a Creative Writing Course?

So, this is a question I’ve googled a lot of times myself, and I don’t think I’ve ever found an answer that felt applicable to me. That may well mean my answer’s not applicable to other people, but having just taken my first courses in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto, I wanted to …

5 Favourite Books from 2018

I read 131 books in 2018 so it’s a bit tricky to choose just five, but I also feel like if I tried to explain all the books I loved and why I loved them, this would be an unfeasibly long post so I’ll have to narrow it down. 2018 was a year of wonderful …

New Year New Books New Blog

 So, this is I think my third attempt at starting a book blog, but I feel like I’m in a good place now as a reader and with my work and general life to actually commit to it so that’s exciting! In the past, I’ve focused mainly on book reviews and I tend to read …