Book Review: A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella

Book Review: A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella https://youtu.be/hJwFhGApCsI Check out A Quiet Life Beautifully written, A Quiet Life is an intimate exploration of grief, hope, and the power of connection. With skillful prose that draws the reader in, these characters – and one elderly man, in particular – are

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Book Chat: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Book Chat: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert   Check out City of Girls An absolute pleasure. The first half of the book is a fun and delightful romp. It brought me joy. Filled with a cast of characters brimming with life, simplistic, yet poignant, and narrated by an old broadKeep Reading ...

The complexity of mother’s day and a mother’s love.

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In just a few days families everywhere will be celebrating one of the most important people in their lives. Mother’s Day is a complex holiday. For some it’s joyous, for others painful, and for many it’s both. So it’s always difficult to know what to write. For years, Mother’s Day

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Winter isn’t coming – it’s here! And it brings reflection and a bunch of sweet bonuses!

Do you ever find that life’s lessons come in the oddest of moments and methods? Yesterday, after less than three hours of sleep (following a crazy intense last month of work), I was on a three hour journey that turned into over a six hour one. I thought, booking my trip

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The Pain Of A Broken Heart

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Have you ever had your heart broken? Most of us have. Most of us know what it feels like to ache in a spot so deep it takes our breath away, to be baffled by the fact that we didn’t know this type of pain was possible. To literally feel like

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A Love Worth Rooting For

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A Love Worth Rooting For … I’ve always enjoyed a good love story. I read Pride and Prejudice when I was eleven or twelve and for the next decade it was my favourite book. When I watched The Notebook, Noah quickly became my ideal man … not just for the intensity of love

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Book Chat: The Good Sister by Chelsea Bolan

Book Chat: The Good Sister by Chelsea Bolan Check out The Good Sister Author’s Website: chelseabolan.com Delicately written, while calling into question the hypocrisies and consequences of a patriarchal society. In the first chapter I was overwhelmed with emotion, with the suggested hypocrisy, with uncertainty. As the story went on (despite

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Book Chat: Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Book Chat: Delirium by Lauren Oliver Check out Delirium Author’s Website: laurenoliverbooks.com A look at a world without love … or rather, a world in which love is a disease that leads to death. Curiously compelling with writing that brings to life a world you feel you could step out your

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Once Upon A Time … We Believed In Happy Endings

I’ve been watching the series Once Upon A Time—obsessively, actually. For those who don’t know, it’s all about fairy tales—the heroes, the villains, and everyone in between, often modernizing and complicating the simplicity that Disney gave to many of these stories and blurring the lines between good and evil. In

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