For this final week of Paris Month, my Swoon-Worthy Sundays post is a double feature. While there are just so many things abut Paris that certainly makes me swoon I couldn’t let this whole month of Paris go by without sharing both of these. This first swoon-worthy item is Taylor Swift’s Begin Again video. Prior [...]
Lost in the Kitchen Reviews: The Little Paris Kitchen by Rachel Khoo
I’ve been making my way through a bunch of the recipes in The Little Paris Kitchen, by Rachel Khoo. There are quite a few involving seafood, which I don’t like/eat so that was easy to skip over. Of the many recipes that I selected to try out, many of them were fairly surprisingly simple. A [...]
Review: Mira’s Diary – Lost in Paris by Marissa Moss
Mira gets a postcard from the mother who her & her family have deemed missing for months. It leads them to Paris where, by accident, Mira touches a gargoyle perched atop Notre Dame and discovers that it has transported her back in time. She discovers that her mission in the past is to prevent an [...]
Review: Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
When we last left off from the first book, Cinder has found herself now in prison after being captured at Prince Kai’s ball. While she is plotting her escape in New Beijing, Scarlet Benoit over in France is searching for her missing grandmother. During her investigations, she encounters a streetfighter named Wolf who apparently knows [...]
Swoon-Worthy Sundays: The Cinder Paperback
Why is Cinder, the paperback release, my feature this week on Swoon-Worthy Sundays? Not only is it a fantastic sci-fi fairy-tale retelling by Marissa Meyer, with the sequel – Scarlet – coming out in February, but many of us who had submitted our review links of Cinder to Macmillan just got an email yesterday that our blog [...]
Review: Of Poseidon by Anna Banks
After a seemingly chance encounter with Galen, a guy she bumps into on the beach, Emma finds herself constantly in contact with this tall and handsome stranger. What she doesn’t realize is that he’s a Syrena and that he’s been looking for a girl that can communicate with underwater creatures. The girl who possesses this [...]
Review: The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda
The “Hunt” that this book’s title refers to is the Heper Hunt; a once in a lifetime opportunity to partake in a game to hunt humans, Known as hepers to this society of sunlight-fearing savages, these humans live blissfully unaware of the impending hunt. They live in protected community, being free to roam during the [...]
Review: Paris, My Sweet by Amy Thomas
This delicious book came recommended to me by Crystal at Raincoast Books for my Paris Month and, due to a shipping mix-up, she let me keep the second copy to give away on the blog! It’ll be part of my wrap-up post on Monday, so if you want a chance to win a copy of [...]
Live Chat recap: Marissa Meyer, author of Cinder
Hosted by Raincoast Books out in British Columbia, fellow Canadian YA bloggers got the chance to have a live webinar chat with Marissa Meyer, author of Cinder! At 3:30 PST (6:30 EST), bloggers from all across Canada logged onto the webinar, and dialed into a 1-888 number to hear the live feed. After a barrage [...]
