Teaching Acceptance One Book at a Time
When I came online today, the first thing I saw were posts about the Ottawa Catholic School Board’s decision to limit access to the graphic novel Drama to ki...
Books
Word Wednesday - Break Time
I’ve been neglecting the blog a little recently, partly because I haven’t had a word that I wanted to write about and a couple of the other pieces percolatin...
Book Review - No Relation by Terry Fallis
“What’s in a name?” Juliet famously queried. “That which we call a rose, would smell as sweet” were it called something else, she noted as she contemplated t...
Book Review - Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson
I’m a historian, and as such, I’m generally leery of reading historical fiction set in the time period I studied - World War One. Small inaccuracies can dri...
Book review - Juliet’s Nurse by Lois Leveen
The Roman Philosopher Marcus Aurelius said that: “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth”. This is t...
The Book Lover’s Ball - After Dark
I’m a classic introvert - I love to spend an evening curled up with a good book and with my BlackBerry at my side. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy goin...
Book Review: Emily Giffin’s The One and Only
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