Serendipitous Readings

THE STOP – How the Fight For Good Food Transformed A Community and Inspired a Movement – Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis – BLOG TOUR

Marci — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:50:57 +0000

It began as a food bank. It turned into a movement. In 1998, when Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, the little urban food bank was like thousands of other cramped, dreary, makeshift spaces, a last-hope refuge where desperate people could stave off hunger for one more day with a hamper full of [...]

A Murder of Crows – David Rotenberg – Blog Tour

Marci — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:24:43 +0000

Decker Roberts is back, and he always knows when you’re telling the truth. David Rotenberg first introduced Decker Roberts and his unique gifts in the critically acclaimed thriller The Placebo Effect. Since Decker’s last run-in with the NSA, he’s been trying to remain off the radar, searching for his estranged son, Seth. Decker’s synaesthetic abilities, once [...]

The Poisoned Pawn – Peggy Blair – BLOG TOUR

Marci — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:01:13 +0000

When Cuban Inspector Ricardo Ramirez is dispatched to Canada and told to bring home a priest found in possession of child pornography depicting Cuban children, he knows his job will be hard enough. But it gets worse once he’s in Ottawa, and women in Havana start dropping dead from a mysterious toxin. Worried about his [...]

KOBO, KOBO, KOBO ….You are really discouraging a lot of people….including me!!!

Marci — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:53:22 +0000

It is a few days shy of a year that I had problems with Kobo. I have to say, since posting my angst and finally getting results from raging on twitter, the same problems are still happening. I have in my most angry and frustrated state have gone off on the one person that [...]

The Mystery of Mercy Close – Marian Keyes

Marci — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:50:33 +0000

I employ this thing called The Shovel List.’ ‘A shovel . . . ?’ ‘No. A Shovel List. It’s more of a conceptual thing. It’s a list of all the people and things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel.’ Meet Helen – youngest of the [...]

Wylde on Health – Bryce Wylde

Marci — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:10:11 +0000

The value of living healthily is indisputable, but what exactly can we do in our daily lives to be our healthiest self? In his new book, Bryce Wylde sets out to answer that question. He sorts out the confusing terminology used to describe natural medicine and leads us through a process of discovery about our [...]

Up and Down – Terry Fallis

Marci — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:36:33 +0000

The author of the Stephen Leacock Medal-winning The Best Laid Plans brings his trademark humour and sharp storytelling to a new novel set in the high-stakes world of a global public relations agency. On his first day at Turner King, David Stewart quickly realizes that the world of international PR (affectionately, perhaps ironically, known as “the dark [...]

DK Canada’s Start Something NEW !! – Classic Knits – More than 100 Beautiful Projects

Marci — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:05:43 +0000

An all-in-one guide to knitting for just about anything and everything knitters want to make, Classic Knits covers equipment, techniques, stitch patterns, and includes more than twenty designs for cute things to craft and warm things to wear. Whether it’s a new earflap hat or bright, cozy socks, Classic Knits will be the knitting “recipe book” crafters keep on [...]

The Painted Girls – Cathy Marie Buchanan

Marci — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:22:03 +0000

Paris, 1878. Following their father’s sudden death, the Van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opera, where for a scant seventeen [...]

Guest Author Post – Cathy Marie Buchanan – The Painted Girls: Two Stories Intertwined

Marci — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:25:59 +0000

Please welcome Cathy to the blog once again for her second historical fiction book – The Painted Girls which is available both in the USA and Canada right now! I can tell you if you haven’t read her first book which I fell in love with at the first few sentences, you should. Cathy is [...]