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NaNoWriMo and Rediscovering the Joy of Writing

A blank cork board on Scrivener holds so many possibilities. Every year I talk to fellow writers just around November, and we discuss the quiet dread that surrounds NaNo: deadlines, timeframes, word counts, ideas. Some […]

November Reads: 5 Gothic Books that Hit the Spooky Sweet Spot

November is my favourite month of the year, not only because it’s my birthday in November, but also because it’s in the sweet spot between the spooky October and cheery December, and it allows you […]

17 Halloween Gift Ideas for the Bookworm in Your Life 2022

Halloween is just around the corner and I couldn’t be more excited! I love autumn for its Halloween-themed decor, pumpkin spice EVERYTHING, scary movies, and spooky autumn reads. If you’re a seasonal reader, and you […]

FairyWren Gifts: How We Opened a Bookish Gift Shop

Have you ever found yourself looking at something that you were about to buy and thinking ‘I could make this myself, only better’? This is exactly what happened to my sister Amra and me after […]

Tchotchkes&Co: How We Opened a Bookish Gift Shop

Have you ever found yourself looking at something that you were about to buy and thinking ‘I could make this myself, only better’? This is exactly what happened to my sister Amra and me after […]

The Fell and Summerwater by Sarah Moss: Book Review

“All the other plagues ended, sooner or later […] and people lived and loved and built houses and planted trees and made food and clothes – and stained glass, travelled, even made music and put […]

In the Shadow of the Kogaionon by Sabina Lungeanu: Book Review

‘It was in those final days of black despair that they turned toward the heavens, seeking the help of the gods. That’s when they saw it, standing tall and proud on the peak of the […]

Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal: Book Review

‘It isn’t the show that counts, but the story you spin.’  Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders  One truly enjoyable thing about the Circus of Wonders is the way Elizabeth Macneal crafts her Victorian atmosphere around […]

The Dutch House by ANN PATCHETT: Book Review

“I see the past as it actually was,” Maeve said. She was looking at the trees. “But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, […]

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Book Review

‘Hope, he said. ‘Damn thing never leaves you alone.’ Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun It takes patience to read Ishiguro. Slowly, and carefully, as if trying to pull off a bandaid, he tells the […]