Two-for-one ebooks at House of Anansi Press
In a shrewd and thoughtful move, House of Anansi Press is currently doing a “Reading Apart Together” promotion where if you buy any ebook for yourse...
Category: books
What I’m reading
**HERE THERE BE WEE SPOILERS*** I’ve was finally getting around to reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, and was really enjoying it but then a couple of thin...
National Day of Unplugging
My wife and I were a bit surprised when our daughter announced after school this past Friday that it was National Day of Unplugging between Friday at 6pm and Sa...
More reading, less counting
For the last couple of years, I’ve been not only tracking and posting what books I read from month to month, but also keeping an annual count those books....
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...
‘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...