TGIF at GReads - Required Reading

TGIF is a weekly feature created and hosted by GReads! that re-caps the week’s posts and has different question each week.

 This week's question: Which book from your school days do you remember reading & enjoying? Is there a book published now that you'd like to see in today's curriculum for kids?


I loved to read and was always reading whether it be on the bus after school or during my lunch hour, at least before I switched schools for my final two years of high school.  My favourite reads from high school was A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.  The reason that I fell in love with the book was that it was a fairly short Dickens novel and also it had the historical element that I thoroughly enjoyed learning about.  When it came to university, my history profs occasionally assigned a book and the one that I changed how I felt about was All Quiet on the Western Front.  I had read it in Grade 12 for English and didn't really like it, but when a history prof of mine assigned it in a Western European course and when I realized the historical context of the book, I was much more appreciative of the book and quite enjoyed it.


This weeks posts:
• Goodreads Catch-Up Read-a-thon
• Anya's Ghost - Vera Brosgol
• WWW Wednesdays (Feb. 22)
• Sunday Salon - What a week!
• Two Book Reviews - The Kitchen Counter Cooking School and My Life in France
• Bleak House Read-Along Starting Post

TGIF at GReads - Book Blogger Pride

TGIF is a weekly feature created and hosted by GReads! that re-caps the week’s posts and has different question each week.

This week's question: What do you take pride in when it comes to blogging?

Its really hard to tell, but I think when a discussion starts to take place among myself and others on something that I have blogged about.

The one blog post that I take pride in is when I wrote a Sunday Salon post back in late August on the aspect of depression, An Open Dialogue. It was something that I wasn't sure to write about but it really was my favourite piece.  I didn't care that I had gotten few comments on my site, but it did open up a discussion on my main twitter account (@melissawiebe) on the day that I posted it.


I suppose this is to say that I am proud of posts from time to time that strike a conversation in people, without any sort of prompting and somebody just wants to talk about it, which seems to be happening less and less these days, as it seems few people actually want to talk about the stuff I post about and makes book blogging more and more like a chore than anything.

TGIF: Buy or Burrow?

TGIF is a weekly feature created and hosted by GReads! that re-caps the week’s posts and has different question each week.

This week's question: Buy or Borrow: Where do your books that you read come from? The bookstore? The library? Do you prefer to own a book, or have it on loan?

I mainly get my books from the library, mainly because I can't afford to buy all the books that I read over the course of the year.  I would prefer to own my books because I am a fairly slow reader and I like to take my time reading.   When I do buy, I go through ChaptersIndigo mainly because its really the only bookstore chain in the area (there aren't really any independent stores in the area) and also because they also allow me to purchase books through my debit card online, which I do more often when I purchase a book due to the fact that I get a better deal online and also because my local store doesn't really have the book that I want to read (sometimes I can get a really good deal in store, like when I purchased The Passage for about $13, but that is very rare).