Do you remember that point in 2016 when there seemed to be a celebrity death every day, and there was loads of political unrest, and it just felt generally scary and terrible? It sucked. Creating something beautiful out of the darkness, Andrew and Lee Fearnside channelled their thoughts and feelings and created this slim volume. …
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The Steamclock, Gastown It's been just over a year that's we've lived here in Vancouver (we arrived 28th September, but we sort of like to use Canadian Thanksgiving as our one year marker because it feels right). I wanted to share my favourite local places so far, but I'm sure that there will be many …
In Berlin in 1941, Hanni realises that the world as she knows it is coming to an end. With her mother bed ridden, she chooses to stay by her side and face the end, but is determined to get her 12 year old daughter out before the Nazi's get her. Knowing she can't send her …
As soon as I realised that this book was by the writer of Birdman, the film starring Michael Keaton that swept up a bunch of awards in 2014, I was really interested in reading it. The Crossed-Out Notebook is the story of Pablo, an Argentine screenwriter, who has been kidnapped and locked a basement by …
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It's the early 60's and two girls meet and become best friends at an elite girls school. Eve comes from old money in Atlanta, while Daniella has been raised Methodist but has a Jewish father. When they befriend one of the maids at the school who is black and plan to join a sorority together, …
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The Need by Helen Phillips Molly is a scientist and a mother of two who recently found some strange things on the site where she and her colleagues are digging up plant fossils. The objects seem everyday, but each has a slight impossible difference and none of them should be where they were found. As …
Set in 1950's Tehran and bookended with parts set in modern day America, this is a beautiful love story set in a time of political upheaval. Roya is a teenage girl who loves to step into the paper and pencil shaving secented world of the stationery and bookstore near her school. There she meets Bahman, …
Lacey Becnel is back in book two of Anne McClane's Traiteur series. This time, Lacey finds herself in Los Angeles, working behind the scenes on a film shoot, but her new found powers put her in the way of danger and adventure once again. Many of our favorite characters return again, as we see Lacey …
Sali Hughes is a British beauty legend. A beauty journalist who writes a regular column for the Guardian, she has a long history of writing about beauty and has tried out pretty much every skincare, hair product or makeup item you can imagine. In her book, Pretty Honest, she uses her no nonsense attitude and …
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When Leigh Ann Kittell emailed me and asked me to read her book and review it, I was pretty intrigued by the title. Spirituality and spiritual practice often seem hard to adopt into every day life and enlightenment seems like something that only spiritual masters can ever attain. But what if that's not true? What …
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