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Pride
Recently my 8-year old and I were having a conversation in which I explained to her that it wasn’t always considered acceptable for girls to marry girls and boys to marry boys. The idea flummoxed her...
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Apps for Booklovers
It’s no great secret that I love books and all things bookish. That love certainly extends to apps. Apps make me a more prolific and enthusiastic reader, and I’m excited to share some of my favourite...
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Booker Prize Longlist Predictions 2016
The Booker Prize Longlist (aka The Booker’s Dozen) is out tomorrow. It’s one of the literary highlights of the year. To be nominated a book must be published in the UK between October 1, 2015 and...
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Brazilian Fiction
It’s almost impossible to believe that we are into August already — a month that heralds the arrival of the Summer Olympics (aka Rio 2016). Whenever the Olympics are held, the book lover in me wants...
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You and I are Going to Live Forever…
This week my Facebook feed was ablaze with findings from research done by Yale University suggesting that book lovers live longer (sometimes, not always, accompanied by YouTube clips of Oasis singing...
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Patricia’s Picks for Stress-Free School Lunches
After two glorious months of summer the Labour Day weekend has somehow once again managed to sneak up on my and my family. We find ourselves utterly unprepared for the looming cycle of up early, pack...
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Patricia’s 2016 Fall Picks
Hurray! The weather has turned! Not feeling it? Hear me out… Now that summer has fled we can all succumb to the urge to curl up with our favourite blanket, a cute cat (or dog, or…), and a hot cup of...
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All Hallow’s Read (and Watch)
Time flying Time flies and somehow Hallowe’en has snuck up on me this year. And now it’s only five days away! I understand that doesn’t leave you a lot of time to plan what you’re going to read and...
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Patricia’s Top 10 Reads of 2016
2016 is well-acknowledged to have been a pretty terrible year. You know why. On the plus side, 2016 has been a very very good year for books. Here are my ten favourites: Best Horror – The Hatching I...
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I Want All the Books!
The weather might be terribly treacherous, and driving might be dangerous, and I might not be able to be on social media or the Internet much these days because too much negativity is just plain bad...
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