Did I sleep write this book or something? I had heard about both Superfreakonomics and it’s prequel, Freakonomics; their titles alone had piqued my curiosity. But life being life, and my pile of ‘to read’ books already very high, I decided to add them to my ‘to buy’ list. And I have to admit, I… Read More Book Review: Superfreakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
The concept of success is a curious one indeed. I recently ran into someone who asked me how my book was doing. I shared stories about a nine year old girl who found solace in my book because it reflected things she and her friends were going through; about a friend of mine who, after… Read More Redefining our World, one (or two!) Word(s) at a time: Success and Winning
Statement T-shirts are a wonderful way of sharing with the world how we feel about certain things, in an in-your-face yet out-of-your-space kind of way. It used to be considered tacky doing so, but never fear: the statement T-shirt has made a huge come-back in all age groups, all the more that they are the… Read More Fashion Review: Novel-T’s Literary Shirts
Let’s start this review with some harsh honesty. Heroes started as a fantastic show. The acting, the directing, the pacing and, most importantly, the story – they were all brilliant. Unfortunately, like a shooting star, Heroes has lost something major in its last two seasons that it is still trying to recapture in its fourth.… Read More Book Review: Heroes: An Insider’s Guide to The Award-Winning Show by Various Authors
Readers of this blog have mentioned a couple of times since the Ask an Author feature was launched how they love finding out more about the people who write books that change their lives. They have been sending in questions so many questions that, once we have increased the pool of participating writers, the feature… Read More Ask An Author: The Unique Relationship between Reader and Writer
This second book by Jackie Fullerton is an enjoyable amateur detective story following Anne Marshall’s attempt to identify a law professor’s killer. When Professor Elliott Spence is killed in a hit and run, the police seem to be ignoring some vital information. Anne Marshall, a court reporter by day and law student by night, can’t… Read More Book Review: Revenge Served Cold by Jackie Fullerton
Waverly Bryson hasn’t had it easy lately. She used to, though. She had a great job, great friends and an amazing fiancé. If there was something bugging her deep down, she shoved it out of the way. After all, Waverly was way too busy organizing her fabulous wedding to the catch of San Francisco while… Read More Book Review: Perfect on Paper: The (Mis)Adventures of Waverly Bryson by Maria Murnane
I read really fast and was expecting to finish this small, 153-page book relatively quickly, all the more that it’s a collection of short stories. How wrong I was. Alone With You: Stories is one of the most compelling and honest portrayals of human nature written by a (relatively) new author that I have read… Read More Book Review: Alone With You: Stories by Marisa Silver
I never thought classics could be so funny. And I never thought I would appreciate Twilight so much. Twitterature is exactly what you think it is when you first hear the word: literature via Twitter. Imagine some of your favourite classics (and some less favourite ones that made you sweat in class): The Catcher in… Read More Book Review: Twitterature by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin
Nothing beats a good ghost story. From Sixth Sense to The Others to The X-Files’ episode “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas”, these are the stories that got me into writing in the first place. Thus it comes as no surprise that I jumped at the opportunity to watch Deadline, a haunted house movie featuring Brittany… Read More DVD Review: Deadline