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Pick Of The Week: A Gelato A Day

Children's Book Review: Josie's Busy Calendar

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- September 19, 2022
Pick of the Week: A Gelato a Day

A Gelato A Day is a collection of family travel stories written by many different writers -- a fantastic blend of styles and voices -- edited by Claudia Laroye.
- wellness,books,family-life,best-kids-book
- April 26, 2022
Children’s Book Review: Josie’s Busy Calendar

The children's book Josie’s Busy Calendar is a timely look at change and anxiety by a Vancouver writer and mother of two.
- books,family-life,pick-of-the-week
- May 10, 2021
Pick of the Week: A Road Trip Story with Heart and Humour

If an actual road trip isn't in the cards right about now, a fun adventure in the form of a novel is maybe the next best thing.
- halloween
- October 11, 2016
Halloween Books To Ease Preschoolers’ Fears

It's easy to forget that young children's brains operate differently than our developed adult minds.
- family-life
- August 18, 2015
Scandal Never Sleeps Book 1 Of The Perfect Gentlemen Series

I received an ARC of book 1 of The Perfect Gentlemen series titled Scandal Never Sleeps for review a few weeks ago. It's written
- family-life
- August 14, 2015
Who Do You Love Is Jennifer Weiner at Her Best

It's been a while since I've read a book that has grabbed me like Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner grabbed me. I read it over the course of a day
- family-life
- June 24, 2015
Lunch With the Legendary Jackie Collins

A few weeks ago I received an email asking if I would be interested in attending a ‘Secrets, Revenge, and Sex Book Club' event with Jackie Collins
- family-life
- June 24, 2015
The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango

I was sent a copy of The Truth And Other Lies by Sascha Arango by Penguin Canada for review and I have to admit,
- family-life
- May 27, 2015
J.R. Ward Has Done It Again with ‘The Bourbon Kings’

I have been a fan of author J.R. Ward since cracking the spine of Dark Lover just a few short years ago.
- family-life
- April 22, 2015
Beauty’s Kingdom By A.N. Roquelaure – Book Review

I was sent Beauty's Kingdom by A.N. Roquelaure (pen name of Anne Rice – the 4th novel in the Sleeping Beauty series and told that while this was a continuation of the Sleeping Beauty series that it could also act … Continue reading » The post Beau
- family-life
- August 19, 2014
Virgin By Radhka Sanghani – A Book Review

Do you remember when you were younger and the book ‘Wifey' by Judy Blume made the rounds? Blume – the same Blume who wrote the classic tween drama's
- family-life
- July 29, 2014
Beautiful Oblivion By Jamie McGuire

Beautiful Oblivion is the 3rd (or 4th?!) book in Jamie McGuire's ‘Beautiful' series and the first of her spin-off ‘Maddox' brothers series. I've only read Beautiful Disaster but I really liked it so I was excited to read this one.
- family-life
- July 25, 2014
All Fall Down By Jennifer Weiner – A Book Review

So, I think some of us might be fighting after I post this review. A little while ago I wrote about the 19 books that you must read this summer and included my own personal recommendations as well as those
- family-life
- June 16, 2014
The Quick by Lauren Owen – A Book Review

rom Goodreads; London, 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society, and finds love in an unexpected
- mom-101
- April 30, 2014
Book Review: One Perfect Spring by Irene Hannon

Honestly I think Irene Hannon is one of my new favourite authors. This is the second book I've read of hers that I had it done in 2 days because I can't put it down. Independent single mom Claire Summers is doing her best to make lemonade out
- family-life
- April 8, 2014
Elaine Lui Opens Up About Her Chinese Squawking Chicken In Her Debut Book

Elaine Lui is the genius behind the ridiculously successful celebrity gossip blog Lainey Gossip, a correspondent on ETalk and most recently one of the hosts of the very successful CTV daytime talk show The Social. Lui now gets to add
- No Category
- April 12, 2016
Starting from Scratch

This non-fiction food book—it's not a cookbook, but a book about food!—teaches kids (and maybe even some adults) how food works, why it works, and what you need in order to have fun in the kitchen. It's unlike anything we've read before.
- family-life
- March 17, 2014
Wild: Is It Worth the Read?

As a rule, I don't read memoirs. To be honest, when I first picked up Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail I had no clue it was a memoir, I just knew that it was a
- family-life
- December 10, 2013
All The Truth That’s In Me – A Book Review

All The Truth That's In Me is a novel by Julie Berry and tells the story of a young woman named Judith who re-appears two years after she and her best friend, Lottie, disappeared from their small town
- family-life
- December 4, 2013
Four Seconds To Lose – A Book Review

Four Seconds to Lose is the third book in K.A. Tucker's series of books that began with Ten Tiny Breaths when we were first introduced to Kacey and her sister Livvier
- family-life
- October 5, 2013
S.E.C.R.E.T SHARED By L. Marie Adeline – A Book Review And A Giveaway

S.E.C.R.E.T Shared is the highly anticipated sequel to the book S.E.C.R.E.T by L. Marie Adeline.
- family-life
- October 5, 2013
Perfect – A Novel By Rachel Joyce A Book Review

Perfect is the second novel by author Rachel Joyce and the follow up to her highly successful debut novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
- family-life
- September 26, 2013
Hot Books for Fall

At the beginning of the school year I took the 50 book pledge
- family-life
- April 28, 2013
The Light Between Oceans By M.L. Stedman

By the time I reached second half of the book I could not put it down and finished it in one sitting

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