End of Year Book Survey 2015

December 31, 2015.Reading time 23 minutes.

It’s the last day of the year! That means I’m just in time with my end of year survey (created by Jamie at The Perpetual Page-Turner). I had a great reading year, so it will be fun to look back on it with this survey. Let’s get started! 2015 Reading Stats Number Of Books You Read: […]

Spiced Apple Crumble

December 27, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

I made a spiced apple crumble for Christmas dessert this year, and it was really good!

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

December 24, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

Marie-Laure LeBlanc is blind and lives with her father, the Master of Locks at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. When the Nazis invade, they flee to the coast, carrying a dangerous secret. Werner Pfennig is an orphan who wins a place at a brutal military academy. But on joining the army, he grows […]

Pistachio Cookies

December 20, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

Initially, my plan for today was to come up with a nice Christmas cookie recipe, as I did last year around this time, but I couldn’t come up with something nice and Christmassy that I actually felt like eating, too. I only knew I wanted to bake pistachio cookies, so in the end I just […]

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

December 17, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn’t believe in fashion… she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit – the more sparkly, more wild – the better. And life is pretty close to perfect for Lola, especially with her hot rocker boyfriend. That is, until the Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighbourhood and […]

Mini-Reviews [1]

December 6, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

I usually review every book I read, but over the past few months there have been a few books that I didn’t feel like writing a full review about. It felt kind of weird to not write about them at all, so that’s why today I’m doing a couple of mini-reviews! The Night is Darkening […]

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

December 4, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, […]