A Woman’s Journey with a Chronic Illness: A Review of Take Daily as Needed
The thing about chronic illness is that life doesn’t stop. It continues its messy, difficult, joyful, out-of-your-control spinning right around you. Kathryn Trueblood’s new book Take Daily As Needed captures it all, then weaves it together to show how every bit of your life is interconnected and affected by all the other parts. Recently, I…
Berserker Author with RA: An Interview with Erik Henry Vick
Settle in, my friends, you’re in for a treat! I somehow persuaded Erik Henry Vick, author extraordinaire with RA, to let me interview him. If you’re a regular reader of this website, you know I loved Errant Gods, the first book in his Blood of the Isir series, also featured on my list of books…
My Favourite Books That Helped Me Live Better with Chronic Illness
This post may contain affiliate links. I have read voraciously for pleasure since I was a child. Somewhere along the way, I discovered that books can also educate, support, and help you figure out how to live in this world. This can be extra helpful when you live with a chronic illness and are flailing…
Apples and Oranges: A Rant About Literary Snobbishness
Updated September 27, 2020 Settle in, I’m about to go on a rant. A while back, I was poking through an old issues of Entertainment Weekly and came upon an article entitled “The Hottest Self Published Books” by Rob Brunner. This sounded interesting for a number of reasons, so I read it and that’s when…
Book Review: Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
Updated November 21, 2021 Forever, the third book in the Shiver Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater was hotly anticipated in my house. This wonderful YA series about teens falling in love in a small town called Mercy Falls, finding out that who you are is so much more important than what you are. As this third book in the…
An Odd Comparison
A friend of mine introduced me to The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. It’s a wonderful series of books, a mix between hard-boiled detective fiction and the paranormal. Our hero is Harry Dresden, a wizard working in Chicago. Or barely working – as is the tradition of hard-boiled detective fiction, he doesn’t make a lot…
Book Review: Linger
Updated November 21, 2021 Following up on perfection is a difficult thing. When I read Shiver, the first book in the trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater, I called it perfection and was in complete raptures over the beauty of the story, the beauty of the writing, and the beauty of the narration. So when I found…
Book Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Updated November 21, 2021 I’ve been looking for a book to get lost in. The kind of book that sweeps you up, brings you on an adventure and leaves you satisfied, yet sad that it’s over. I’ve tried a bunch and they haven’t been bad, some have even been very good, but there has been…
Going Deep
Updated June 21, 2020 One of the favourite books of my childhood was Heidi, the story of a little girl who lived on the Alm (Alp) with her grandfather (first published in 1880, more here). I haven’t read the book since I was 12 or 13 and didn’t remember much more then that. In a…
Books That Changed Who I Am
Updated September 26, 2024 In September of 1973, I was 11 years old and admitted to the only rehab hospital in Denmark that handled kids with arthritis (and kids and adults with any other rehabilitation needs). To say that it was an awful place is an understatement, but there weren’t any other options. I cried…