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Continue reading →: In the end it’s all tides
Sometimes I feel in such a hurry to get life started. Like it’s not already happening, all around us. Like every day isn’t already a step closer to whatever is coming next. It’s not easy to sit still, though, when all these stars have aligned and I can finally see…
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Continue reading →: Caught up with Lisa MooreCaught by Lisa Moore (Anansi Press, 2013) The hotter it gets outside the more vital the search for the perfect beach read becomes. Luckily, this year’s Canada Reads winner Lisa Moore just released her new novel Caught (June 2013, Anansi Press) and it has everything you’ll need this sweaty season—sharp lines, seedy characters and…
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Continue reading →: Love Water MemoryLove Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge (Gallery Books, 2013) When Lucie Walker comes to, she’s knee-deep in the San Francisco Bay with no recollection of how she got there. Lucie, now an amnesiac, is quickly claimed by her former-fiance—a stranger she now has to try and fall back in love…
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Continue reading →: On growing apart, Girls and Friends Like UsShe suggests we become pen pals, though we live only a twenty-minute walk from each other, and suddenly it seems like my best friends are always screens, stamps, and several failed plans away. Like I woke up one morning and we suddenly stopped making time for each other. Or maybe…
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Continue reading →: I don’t even like pieI Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron (Random House, 2010) Lately it’s everything. The first sunny day it seems in months and I read Nora Ephron’s last book I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections in an hour in my most comfortable chair. It’s really Gerald’s chair but now,…
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Continue reading →: Wise Men and ereader exceptionsI spent my holiday break in New Mexico. Which, if you’ve never been, is choice, I hiiiighly recommend it. Of course I got the most vicious of colds, because that’s what happens to me nearly every time I set foot on a plane, and I ran quickly out of money…
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Continue reading →: On judging books by their coversYay! Salty Ink’s Judge a Book by Its Cover Contest is back! One of the only two contests I participate in when it comes to best of book selection (the other being Goodreads’ best of the year vote) and this is by far my favourite. In part because choosing a…
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Continue reading →: In the Outline of Everything Left BehindIt wasn’t that there were stars in your eyes, it was that it was all you could see. Twinkling lights and your own name blinking in and out like a vacancy sign on that old hotel that kept advertising colour TV long after it stopped being a selling point. It…
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Continue reading →: Top 12 of 2012I’m not usually a fan of end of year lists as much as people seem to make them, especially since, when it comes to books, there’s almost no way that you (or at least I) can get to every book in my to-read pile, especially considering a lot of the…
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Continue reading →: On reading Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore in 24 hoursMr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) Halfway through Robin Sloan’s bibliophile adventure tale I wasn’t sure that I liked it quite as much as I wanted or expected to. Here were all the ingredients to the perfect story, and for all intents and purposes,…
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 