Mr. Huff
From the moment Bill wakes up and looks at the grey sky outside, he knows that it’s not going to be a good day. He can’t find his favourite socks, […]
Category Archives: Mental Illness
Team Avatar, Detectives at Your Service
It’s no secret that I’m a huge admirer of Avatar: the Last Airbender, tv show and comics both, so pardon me while I fangirl a little, and bear with my semi-academic […]
Review: Kenneth Oppel’s “The Nest”
Steve just wants to save his baby brother—but what will he lose in the bargain? Kenneth Oppel’s (Silverwing, The Boundless) haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, is one of […]
Elena Vanishing by Clare B. Dunkle and Elena Dunkle: A Review
Hardcover, 288 pages Published May 19th 2015 by Chronicle Books Source: Raincoast Books Nafiza: It is a curious experience to read Elena Vanishing after reading Hope and Other Luxuries. A […]
Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother’s Life with a Daughter’s Anorexia by Clare Dunkle: A Dialectical Review
Hardcover, 560 pages Expected publication: May 19th 2015 by Chronicle Books Source: Raincoast Books Janet and I received review copies of this book from Raincoast Books and as this is […]
Review: One Thing Stolen by Beth Kephart
Hardcover, 272 pages Published March 31st 2015 by Chronicle Books Source: ARC from Raincoast Books Shhh, I told Maggie. Listen. Because somebody was high up, above our heads, singing this sad […]
Kit Pearson on the Redemption of Story: a Colloquium
On January 21st, Kit Pearson spoke at UBC on the redemption of story. In case you can’t read the print, comfortably large on the poster, rather minuscule as […]
How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story by Tracy White
Hardcover, 160 pages Published June 8th 2010 by Roaring Brook Press Source: Library There are lots of reasons that Stacey ends up in a mental hospital but what convinces her […]
Review: Counting Backwards by Laura Lascarso
Hardcover, 279 pages Published August 14th 2012 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers Source: Library “I exhale slowly, ten, nine, eight… counting backwards without meaning to, but it feels better […]
The Book Wars 