The mental relief of a good book
As I’d mentioned previously, I get a daily newsletter for free and cheap ebooks for my Kobo e-reader. It’s something I really should stop, because w...
Category: books
‘Je ne sais quoi’ doesn’t last
I’m a sucker for books. My wife foolishly still leaves me unattended in book stores sometimes, and the result is almost always me ending up with a book or...
Support your local indie book shop
As I was adding links to my previous post, it occurred to me that I was using Indigo (our big Canadian book store chain) to specify what books I was talking abo...
What I read this month
On the one hand, I was pretty happy with how much I got read this month, what with trying to read more. On the other hand, it occurred to me a couple of weeks b...
Happy New Year and other things
Yes, Happy New Year, as this is the first, if belated, post of 2020. For anyone wondering, I have four resolutions for the year, which seems a reasonable amount...
Top 10 favourite books of 2019
I managed to read 40 books this year, well above 2018’s total of 27. Hoping for getting through even more in 2020. Here are a list of my top 10, appearing...
Tiny drumroll, please…
As promised, here are my reading lists for August through to October. I don’t know if the September/October list is actually exhaustive, but it’s al...
Hey look, that ball I dropped…
I realized a couple of months back that I had forgotten to post the books I had read for the month. I’d done the tracking and writing up of the list (the ...
The acid test of book format preferences
As posted earlier, I definitely find myself more likely to seek out print books than ebooks. The proof was in the pudding yesterday. I found myself in a booksto...
Read this book
I’m subscribed to a newsletter that provides daily (legit) links to free and cheap ebooks for the Kobo. The problem, I found quickly, is that way more oft...