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Continue reading →: EducatedI read the entirety of Tara Westover’s memoir Educated in an anxious fit. My heart twisting and my muscles tensed in response to her own paralysis as she navigates her violent and dysfunctional family dynamics from child to adult. Born into a large fundamentalist Mormon family Westover grew up believing…
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Continue reading →: Her Pretty FaceThis was my first Robyn Harding book and I may have gone into it with high expectations due to the acclaim for The Party. Harding’s newest novel is a psychological suspense surrounding the violent secrets two women are hiding in their respective pasts after they befriend each other when both…
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Continue reading →: The PowerI really really wanted to love this book. Naomi Alderman had a winning pitch with the exploration of what would happen if teen girls all over the world could suddenly channel an electric force, and awaken that power in older women as well. Just writing that I’m like YAS QUEEN,…
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Continue reading →: Thrill me, thrill meIt’s the day after Halloween and I feel compelled to share something spooky. I never was one for murder mysteries in the past but in the last few years I’m drawn to thrillers, the suspense is killing me. The latest I’ve consumed is Final Girls by Riley Sager. Where normally…
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Continue reading →: Every day you breakEvery day you break a little more. First as the waves of contractions hit my swollen body three days too soon with a fierceness I name my daughter after. I wait and wait and wait hoping each sleepless night is a reckoning and stumbling into tomorrow still full. They say…
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Continue reading →: 2015: A year in reading(*) = a pick for top 10 of 2015 January The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters Landline by Rainbow Rowell The Fever by Megan Abbott Shopaholic to the Stars by Sophie Kinsella The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner I’m just…
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Continue reading →: Season’s readingsWe’ve got a read on who ended up on your list this year, and we’re telling you it doesn’t matter—there’s a book for that. Make your life easy and channel your inner Oprah this holiday season: “You get a book, and you get a book, and everybody gets a book!”…
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Continue reading →: On ordinary days that become perfect by circumstanceHe found dentures washed up on a flea-ridden beach—smoothed down to half its dental cast by the timid waves that deposited large purple jellyfish like blood clots along the shore. We were looking for beach glass but here was the pride of his findings and he tucked them carefully away…
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Continue reading →: 2014: A year in readingJanuary: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling), The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, Lazy Days by Erlend Loe It’s always colder than I remember. I finally read JK Rowling’s foray into mystery wondering why she needed to publish it under a male pen name. It’s…
Hello,
I’m Lindsay
Mixed-Cree writer, cozy gamer, and book hoarder. Host of Book Me! Podcast. My debut children’s book Snow Day is coming out October 28, 2024 with Nimbus Publishing.
Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird 