Welcome to my weird world!
Four years ago, I sat down and decided to see The Big Short only knowing it was about the 2008 financial crisis. With my schedules of also doing book reviews, school, work, and personal projects, I generally can’t watch as many movies as other film critics, but I decided this one would be worth my... Continue Reading →
Hi, whoever's decided to read this. I've been reviewing movies and books since I was 15, and if you read the title, by math that means I'm now 20. A lot of my friends at Grade 10 had way different hobbies than me. Some loved all things volleyball, and others loved cooking or engineering or... Continue Reading →
I was hooked from the get-go on Defy The Night, the first book in a trilogy and the first I’ve read from Brigid Kemmerer. If books like these were assigned to high schools instead of the usual dinosaurs like The Great Gatsby or Wuthering Heights, more kids would definitely love to read. Imagine Robin Hood... Continue Reading →
The Da Vinci Code is one of my favourite books of all time. I read it about three years ago at the recommendation of my dad, and I sped through it so fast, it was like I was right there with Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu on that one long night the book takes place... Continue Reading →
While reading The Rebel’s Guide To Pride, I thought about the thousands of Palestine Action hostages in the UK, imprisoned just for speaking out against the biggest war crime in generations, and how they’ve been keeping up the fight and risking their entire lives. It’s just like here, down to the corrupt leaders bad-mouthing the... Continue Reading →
I’ve been a fan of Cale Dietrich ever since his Love Interest days. Can’t believe that was almost ten years ago! Four books in, I’ve noticed a pattern he has, of his protagonists being, well, probably a fair bit like him? I see a bit of myself in a lot of his heroes. They tend... Continue Reading →
I read this book knowing I would love it. And I waited ages for it to arrive, like my dad when he was a little kid waiting for Episodes 5 and 6 of Star Wars. Books like these will get children to actually like reading, because it does something that so many authors forget to... Continue Reading →
Born Scared might have the simplest main premise I’ve ever read in a full novel; a young boy trying to walk a few blocks to a house. But if that sounds like a complete snooze, you’d be surprised with all it takes - and all that goes wrong - in this nice little tale about... Continue Reading →
After the longest book I’d ever read and finishing a four-year project…I wasn’t in the mood to get into anything big. I figured, let’s pick something for my next read that was not gonna be a burden to get through. I found Instructions for Dancing at my library, and figured, I’ve never read a Nicola... Continue Reading →
Okay. So, The Dryad Storm, the last book in the long-running Black Witch series, is not just the longest book in the series at 724 pages, with all the others having 600 or a little over, but the text is smaller too, to the point where I think if this were the same font size... Continue Reading →
Simon Mayo is responsible for one of my favourite book trilogies as a teen, the Itch trilogy. Long story short, it was about a science geek named Itchingham (a curse of a name, I know) who discovers a radioactive rock not found on the periodic table which had the power to be a new energy... Continue Reading →
Something you should know, that I didn’t before starting this book, was this is the fourth in a big series, but the book itself doesn’t really tell us this. It doesn’t say “Book 4 in the Warwick Series” or anything like that. Once I realized, some of its flaws started to make sense, so maybe... Continue Reading →
William J. McGinn 