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The Perpetual Page-Turner is hosting the end of the year book survey meme again this year! I filled out this meme last year (and the previous year), which was great fun and just a fantastic way to recap the year in reading =)

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Note: As it is only the…

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This post was inspired by this post from Casee Marie of Literary Inklings. I totally agree with her sentiments that the change in seasons—especially the winter time—definitely makes an impact/reflects in the books that we bookworms read. It might be a bit more dramatic, a bit more reflective, a…

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Hi everyone! You may remember that some time ago I had reviewed a short story collection that was recently published entitled Remember Why You Fear Me (review) by Robert Shearman (many of you may know him for the episode he wrote for Doctor Who, “Dalek” (109)). It’s quite an interesting…

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The ninth issue of Discourse Magazine is out! Discourse Magazine is a bi-weekly online publication that focuses on a variety of issues both at the Canadian and international scale. This week’s issue came out just in time as the US elections are happening today. However for my column I focused on…

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The seventh issue of Discourse Magazine is out! Discourse Magazine is a bi-weekly online publication that focuses on a variety of issues both at the Canadian and international scale. This week I focused on the political and social unrest in Portugal in an article entitled “Have the Portuguese People Rejected Austerity?”. More on my comments on the subject can be found on my blog =)

Be sure to check out this issue!

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I wasn’t sure which category to label this entry in to be honest lol…so yeah, Friday was my birthday xP If you’re following me on Twitter, you probably saw me posting up photos throughout the day—not that it was terribly exciting or anything but it was nice nonetheless. It was actually the first…

scripturient-quaintrelle:

The sixth issue of Discourse Magazine is out! Discourse Magazine is a bi-weekly online publication that focuses on a variety of issues both at the Canadian and international scale. This week I focused on the Spanish-Catalan tensions in an article entitled “The Crisis in Spain Turns Political”. More on my comments on the subject can be found on my blog =)

Be sure to check out this issue!

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A shrewd FBI agent with a lost past who arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine, to solve the murder of a local ex-con only to discover that the curious enclave is a longtime refuge for people with supernatural powers that holds a lot of secrets, including to her own past. - source

A shrewd FBI agent with a lost past who arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine, to solve the murder of a local ex-con only to discover that the curious enclave is a longtime refuge for people with supernatural powers that holds a lot of secrets, including to her own past. - source

Because of his superhero alter ego, Tony Stark must contend with deadly issues involving the government, his own friends and new enemies. - source

After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending the USA’s ideals. - source

The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. - source

Barcelona,1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city’s dark past. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940’s and the dark early days of Franco’s dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a journey fraught with jealousy, suspicion, vengeance, and lies, a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love and ultimately transform their lives.

Barcelona, 1945—Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes one day to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a book from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the book he selects, a novel called The Shadow of the Wind by one Julián Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Before Daniel knows it, his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness, and doomed love, and before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julián Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.