Month: November 2019 Archive

Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews

It’s no secret. For many, the holidays are associated with a time of stress and drama, particularly with family. It’s as if conflict and stress is part of the tradition. […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, Writing | Tagged with apps, literary, news aggregators

Now that the days are shorter, and the nights seem endless, you would think there would be time to sit on the sofa with a big thick book – perhaps […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Nico D'Archangel

Posted in Children's, Inform * Enrich * Empower | Tagged with book recommendations, dyslexia

Dyslexia affects between 5-17% of the population worldwide. This is a higher percentage than people with red hair! (less than 2%) So what is it really? Dyslexia is a written […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens

Prompt #20: A book written in prison First, a warning.  I know I’ve been writing about YA books for the Read Harder Challenge; however,  Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs From […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews

In The Great Derangement, acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh questions our collective “imaginative failure” in the face of global warming. He examines our failure to “grasp the scale and violence […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews, Events, Poetry, Reading Recommendations

I admit it, I am the sort of person who shares YouTube videos of favorite authors talking and reading at university lecterns, or hanging out in nice chairs on stages […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Nico D'Archangel

Posted in Events, Reading Recommendations, Writing | Tagged with authors, novels, writing

Welcome to NaNoWriMo! I promise, that’s not gibberish. It stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel from November 1st to 11:59pm November […]