for many years i was strictly a fiction aficionado. it’s not that i had anything against non-fiction works, it’s just… Read more book number thirteen of 2015: what i know now, letters to my younger self [ellyn spragins].

in the last few years i have enjoyed re-visiting some of the books i read in school. a few years… Read more book number twelve of 2015: number the stars [lois lowry].

i admittedly knew next-to-nothing about jojo moyes’ the girl you left behind when i began reading it. in truth, i’m not entirely… Read more book number eleven of 2015: the girl you left behind [jojo moyes].

i first heard about amanda ripley’s book about the state of global education on an episode of this american life just before… Read more book update: the smartest kids in the world, and how they got that way [amanda ripley].

over the years, dave eggers has become one of my favourite authors to read. i first read his semi-autobiographical work, a… Read more book number ten of 2015: zeitoun [dave eggers].

love wins. love always wins. i first read tuesdays with morrie years ago. so many years, in fact, that i’m having… Read more [audio] book review: tuesdays with morrie [mitch albom].

technically i “read” harper lee’s classic to kill a mockingbird when i was in school, but let’s be real, i was… Read more book number nine of 2015: to kill a mockingbird [harper lee].