Rainy Day Reads

I'm combining these into one blog post, because it's already February {Edit: Now it's March? when did this happen?}  and I think that these 2017 year-in-review posts are dragging on. So here's a quick wrap up of my favourite nonfiction and series from 2017. If I was a put together person I would have finished these way back in January, but clearly I'm not on it, so here we are. In March. Still reviewing 2017 books. But in my defense I found out that I've apparently been battling the flu for a month or so. So motivation for blogging and life in general has been at 0%. So here's a quick last 2017 Wrap Up post, and then we're back to our normal schedule (of sporadic posts/no posts at all. Depending on how fast I can kick the last vestiges of the flu out of my system). First up is my favourite non-fiction reads of the year: Nonfiction: Sacred Mundane by Kari Patterson This book is a celebration of the mundane. Sometimes, when...

I'm writing this holed up in my room with tea and shortbread. There's a weird cold/flu thing going around, and it's taken out my whole family, so I'm doing my best not to catch it. My avoiding sickness techniques include holing myself away with tea and shortbread, so what better time to write my end of year reading wrap up? Yes, I'm battling sickness by pretending to be sick. But maybe if I put my sick time in, and stay in bed the flu spirits will pass over me. I'm optimistic. Anyway, I thought that now would be a good time to do a sort of reading wrap up for 2017. I read 92 books, so there's definitely a surplus of books to talk about. I've got my 'Year In Books' (Courtesy of Goodreads) open, so that I can have a shot at remembering what exactly I read this year. I've decided to do a top five(ish. Picking favourite books is hard, ok?) in several categories. I'm not doing them in any particular order, just in what orde...

Nano: When even your coffee is telling you to wake up {Somehow this didn't post properly a week ago when it was supposed to. So here it is, a bit late} Well, I seem unable to do better than staying less than several thousand words behind. In fact, I think that I'm doing worse in keep up since last week (looks up Nano chart. Yup. 11,00 words behind, now*cries*). I kind of wasted a perfect weekend to catch up by burning myself out by being too ambitious on my first day off and giving myself MAJOR burnout for the rest of the weekend, so that was smart. And I was doing so well! And also this was supposed to be a week 2 update and now it's a week 2 AND 3 update. So not only am I failing at nano, but also everything else. {UPDATE: I also failed to post this properly in November, so there's that, too.} Okay, despair over. Let's do a little review of my last two weeks and what happened. Nano week 2 I continued to keep up with my daily wordcounts, and e...

(Picture taken at a local coffee shop. Because one does not simply write at a coffee shop without instagraming it) I'm attempting to do Nanowrimo this year. Here's my first weeks' wrap up, and oh boy, let me tell you, this week has been an adventure to say the least. I'm behind by several thousand words, and I was doing so well at the start of the week :( Ah well, I suppose that getting your wisdom teeth out will do that to ya. Yep.  I signed up for Nano knowing full well that I was getting surgery 3 days in. But I figured that I couldn't let a silly little thing like getting four teeth yanked out of my mouth stop my creative process, so here we are. Day 1:  It was Wednesday, which is good news for my writerly prospects; because that is the morning that I drop my brother off at school, and then have 2 hours to bum around the city while I wait for him to get out of class so that I can pick him up. I usually go to a nearby coffee shop and read, but t...