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Book Review: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Add This Book on Goodreads Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and...
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In the Kitchen: Sourdough Starter and Sourdough Bread
Is there anything better than the smell of fresh bread? Well, I guess the taste of fresh bread is right up there. (Duh) I’ve always dabbled with making fresh bread, but always with the help of my...
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Making Music: “The night holds deeper secrets than the ones I told to you.”
This is an old song that was supposed to go on my album The Bee Tree, and then on Seeds, Shells, and Stones, and then on Wild Birds. I’m not sure what it is about the song because it’s one of my...
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And Now it’s Sunday (6) & Reading Through the Stacks
I’m currently… Watching… Broadchurch. I had watched the first episode last week and finally caught up with the show yesterday. HOLY FREAKING COW! This show is very powerful and has some majorly dark...
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Musing On: My History In Music (Listening)
If you know me, you’ll think one of two things: 1. I have stellar taste in music, or 2. I have very STRANGE taste in music. Really, it can go either way. But I wasn’t always like this. Way back in the...
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Book Review: Griffin & Sabine (An Extraordinary Correspondence, #1-3) by Nick...
Add This Book on Goodreads It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist...
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Book Review: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
Add This Book on Goodreads From the hugely popular blog, a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: ‘Can books conduct electricity?’ ‘My children are just climbing your bookshelves:...
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TV & Movies: Hungry For Change (Documentary)
Photo from the Hungry For Change website. I’ve always been so interested in TV shows or blogs about healthy eating. I’ve gone through spurts of healthy eating — not dieting, but eating naturally,...
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Book Event: 2013 Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture with Esi Edugyan
On Tuesday night, I was lucky enough to attend the 2013 Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture at the Timms Centre for the Arts in Edmonton, Alberta. Each year, a Canadian author is asked to present a...
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Addicted To: Secret Diary of a Call Girl
My addictions change weekly. One week I’ll be obsessed with a TV show, another week with a book or author, and another week with a piece of music. It’s a never-ending thing, but it’s something I love....
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Book Review: The Banks of Certain Rivers, by Jon Harrison
Add This Book on Goodreads “Urgent, real, and often very funny.”—James Frey, New York Times bestselling author of Bright Shiny Morning and A Million Little Pieces Neil Kazenzakis is barely holding his...
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Book Review: Half-Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan
Add This Book on Goodreads Berlin, 1939. A young, brilliant trumpet-player, Hieronymus, is arrested in a Paris cafe. The star musician was never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a...
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In the Kitchen: Shepherd’s Pie
I absolutely ADORE winter meals. It seems that when it’s cold outside, it’s totally okay to throw something in the slow cooker, or make some soup, or make large batches of your favourite comfort foot....
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Photography: If a mess happens when you’re not looking, who’s to blame?
I have three dogs. I’ve been lucky with the first two that they really haven’t caused a lot of trouble. When we got Gracie, she was pretty good to start with, but had a week of complete and utter...
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Musing On: Insomnia And Loud Brains
Oh, sleep. How I always look forward to you! But sometimes you can be a fickle bitch. I don’t suffer from insomnia often, but there have been quite a few nights where I go to bed, read my book for a...
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Book Review: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Add This Book on Goodreads Remember the woman you used to be … Alice is twenty-nine. She is whimsical, optimistic and adores sleep, chocolate, her ramshackle new house and her wonderful husband Nick....
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Book Review: The Man in My Basement, by Walter Mosley
Add This Book on Goodreads Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-The Man in My Basement tells the story of Charles Blakey, a young black man who can’t...
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Audiobook Review: Escape From Camp 14, by Blaine Harden
Add This Book on Goodreads North Korea is isolated, hungry, bankrupt, and belligerent. Its also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison...
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Book Review: Lighthouse Bay by Kimberley Freeman
Add This Book on Goodreads From the author of Wildflower Hill, this breathtaking novel travels more than a century between two love stories set in the Australian seaside town of Lighthouse Bay. In...
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In the Kitchen: Churro Waffles
I love breakfast. Every morning, I have full intention to create something AMAZING for breakfast, but then my stomach usually gets involved and I eat something simple, like cereal or yogurt, instead...
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