I love supporting local Canadian businesses, and Phidon Pens is a stationery store based in Cambridge, Ontario. They have been in business with their brick-and-mortar shop for well over a decade but just opened their online shop last year. With Christmas right around the corner, I wanted to create a unique gift guide that would be perfect for book & stationery lovers alike! Here are some of the items from Phidon Pens I recommend for gifts: Apica Notebooks – they…
Why Scrivener Software is Perfect for Creatives!
Since working on my novel, I’ve started using Scrivener and I absolutely love it! Even though my novel is still in the beginning phase, this writing software was a great change. Before using Scrivener, which is a writing app designed with the complexities of developing, drafting, and revising major projects in mind, I was using traditional word processors like Microsoft Word and Google Docs. I still think that those are excellent entry-level writing tools, but their limited features can prove…
Hoopla Digital Review – Get eBooks & Audiobooks For Free
hoopla digital is a great online service that partners with public libraries across the U.S. and Canada. This platform provides online and mobile access to hundreds of thousands of movies, television, music, eBooks, audiobooks and comics. Currently listening to The Bear by Andrew Kirvak This service was super easy and accessible to use! With the hoopla digital app, I can borrow, instantly stream, and download dynamic content with my library card. All of the content available is accessible via hoopla…
Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas presented by Cineplex Events
“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” – Margaret Atwood Screening across Canada on Tuesday, September 10th My first encounter with Margaret Atwood’s work was reading The Handmaid’s Tale for one of my English classes in high school. The novel itself had such a great impact on my life and it was a real eye-opener. At that time, I hadn’t read anything like it before. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Therefore, I can’t wait to see Margaret Atwood: Live…
How to Read More with Audiobooks
This post is sponsored by Audible. All opinions are 100% my own. I hadn’t always been an audiobook listener, but when I was in university, I didn’t have much time to read physical books and I started listening to audiobooks via Audible instead. I would listen to audiobooks on my commutes to school or while I was doing chores around the house. I soon realized that if I got in the practice of listening to more audiobooks in my day-to-day…
Reading Goals for Twenty Eighteen
What are your reading goals for 2018? I know we’re already a month into 2018 (I was suppose to post this in January), but I still wanted to discuss my reading goals for this year with you – and who knows, we might have some of the same ones. After failing to complete most of my reading goals for last year, I decided not to plan out any concrete ones for 2018. Of course I still want to make a dent…