August was a fairly busy month reading-wise (read ALL the books!), offline, and otherwise. Suffice to say my scheduled book reviews have now backed up into late October November (oh my) 😛 Anyway, here’s what has been going on at my blog for the month of August:

1. Books reviewed this month include: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s The Dear Mountaineer’s Inn (review), Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members (review), and Sigal Samuel’s The Mystics of Mile End (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. ARC reviews posted this month were for Aliette de Bodard’s The House of Shattered Wings (review) and Lucy Foley’s The Book of Lost and Found (review). You can check out all of the ARCs that I recently read in this tag.
3. On the movies end, I finally posted my review of In the Loop (review). You can check out other movie reviews I’m posted in this tag
4. I also finally got around to watching Netflix’s Daredevil some time ago! You can check out my thoughts on series 1 in this post and other television reviews/discussion posts I’ve made in this category.
5. Roofbeam Reader hosted Austen in August, so in conjunction with the event I chose to focus on Jane Austen for this month’s edition of So You Want to Read… 🙂 You can read the post of my recommended reading order of her books in this post. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.

And that’s about it from me this month! How was your August? Have a wonderful week 🙂

July was a busy one on my end with offline stuff. Summer also finally made its appearance here as it has been super hot, not to mention my city is hosting a ton of major events >_< Anyway, my semi-hiatus sort of dwindled to a close towards the end of the month, though I'm still sort of playing catch-up with everything I've missed. Here's what has been going on at my blog for the month of July regardless:

1. Books reviewed this month include: George Eliot’s Middlemarch (review), Kathleen Tessaro’s The Perfume Collector (review), and Robert Shearman’s They Do The Same Things Different There (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. I only posted one ARC review this month, Alice Hoffman’s upcoming The Marriage of Opposites (review). You can check out all of the ARCs that I recently read in this tag.
3. On the movies end, I finally posted my review of Hayao Miyazaki’s final feature film, The Wind Rises (review). You can check out other movie reviews I’m posted in this tag.
4. In conjunction with Canada Day at the start of the month, I decided to feature Alice Munro for this month’s So You Want to Read… 🙂 You can read the post of my recommendations for her short story collections over here. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.
5. On a list-related note, having finally read all of Shakespeare’s works I compiled a list of my favourite plays. What are your favourites by him?

And that’s about it from me this month! I hope everyone had a lovely July and have a lovely weekend (and a lovely long weekend if you’re Canadian)! 🙂

How is it that it’s the end of the month already? May was such a strange month for me, especially towards the end–I kept thinking Victoria Day weekend was at the last week of the month but it wasn’t O_O Anyways, here’s what has been going on here at the blog for the month of May:

1. Books reviewed this month include: Lucinda Riley’s The Lavender Garden (review), Deborah Harkness’ The Book of Life (review), and Marina Fiorato’s Beatrice and Benedick (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. ARCs reviewed this month include: Catherine Chanter’s The Well (review) and Donna Douglas’ The Nightingale Girls (review). You can check out all of the ARCs that I recently read in this tag.
3. For So You Want to Read… this month, I focused on the late Sir Terry Pratchett‘s Discworld books (for the most part, anyway). You can read the post of my recommendations here. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.
4. No movies or theatre-related posts this month, but I did pose this question at the start of the month about what to do with ARCs afterwards. Please pop in if you can, I would really appreciate the input! 🙂
5. I don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner but I’m slowly starting to add tags in to my book reviews for ratings to make it easier to navigate my blog. Unfortunately I have some 600+ (!!!) posts of book reviews so creating a proper archive would be incredibly cumbersome with time I don’t have so I’m hoping the tags would be of some use 😉

And that’s about it from me this month! Hope everyone had a lovely May and wishing all the best for the month of June 🙂

Ahh, April. Seem liked yesterday I was saying adios to March, welcoming Easter and Spring and here we are at the end of April and at the cusp of summer (seriously, it feels like it was never spring. I’m okay where we are, I don’t want it to get any hotter). Anyway, here’s what has been going on at my blog for the month of April:

1. Books reviewed this month include: Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (review), Bee Ridgway’s The River of No Return (review), and Jeanne Mackin’s The Beautiful American (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. ARCs reviewed this month include: Jacques Kornberg’s The Pope’s Dilemma (review) and Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake (review). You can check out all of the ARCs that I recently read in this tag.
3. Only one movie review was posted this month: The Book of Kells (review)
4. On the theatre side of things, I watched and reviewed 2011’s Much Ado About Nothing produced at the Globe (review). Such fun–and highly recommended! 🙂
5. For So You Want to Read… this month, I focused on poetry as it’s National Poetry Month. You can read the post of my recommendations here. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.

And that’s about it from me this month! Can’t believe we’re already a quarter into 2015…How was your April? Hope everyone is having a lovely week–on to May 🙂

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