Literary and Lovely

Tag: books

  • Life Update August 2018

    Good morning all. Aside from my Montréal Travel Diary that I posted back in March, my blog and social media have been all but abandoned for the past couple of months, and I wanted to dedicate a post to updating you all about my life. I applied to graduate school back in February, and at…

  • The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett

    Good morning, lovely readers!!!  I am back with another book review post. I read this book over the Christmas holidays but it is quite short so I read it once again just the other day and really wanted to share it here on the blog.  This book recounts snippets of the playwright Alan Bennett’s life…

  • This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire 

    Happy extremely belated Valentine’s Day all!!! Those of you who know me are very familiar with my less-than-favourable opinion of Valentine’s Day, but nevertheless I still wanted to do a love-themed book review post, and I thought this book was perfect. This Modern Love is a crowd-sourced book published in 2016 by YouTuber and filmmaker…

  • The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

    Good afternoon all, and welcome to my first book review post of 2017!!! I actually got this book free back in November using my accrued Plum Points at Chapters, which was very exciting. It took me until the end of term and after Christmas and such to read it, but then it took only a…

  • A Life Discarded by Alexander Masters

    [So as not to have a super long post title, I only used the main portion of the title of this novel; the complete title is A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip.] I saw this book perched on a shelf in a local bookstore shortly before I left for Seattle. The cover…

  • The Versatile Blogger Award

    Oh my goodness, this nomination completely took me by surprise, and added a lovely bright spot to a day of studying in the library for round two of university midterms. Incidentally, I have just got through this round of tests, so now I can actually write the post without fear of sneaking little linguistic facts…

  • Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

    I blogged about this book in my September book haul and had planned to read it during school but surprise, surprise (not surprising at all), I didn’t read it during little study breaks between classes and on the bus ride to and from university. I mean, I read a few of the essays that way, but…

  • Mosquitoland by David Arnold

    I picked up this book last year at Chapters during one of their summer book sales, and it marked the end of my book buying sprees until I actually read some of the books in my TBR piles that were precariously stacked in front of my bookshelf and wobbled every time I walked by.  After…

  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

    I first heard about this book last summer when my then-boyfriend was complaining about how bookstores never had it in stock, but always had her other well-known book Atlas Shrugged. Because of this, I was so happy when I found it tucked away in a little used bookstore for $2.50. I had planned to give…

  • The Liebster Award

    I got a very welcome surprise the other day: I was nominated for the Liebster Award!!!  Thank you to the lovely Agatha Chocolats for the nomination. Her blog is riddled with chocolate enthusiast indulgences and cozy murder mystery book posts, so pop on over and have a gander at all the tempting goodness. Here are…