Mel’s Blog

Last night, one of my best friends celebrated her 40th birthday. There were people from her whole life there. It was pretty amazing to sit on the side lines and [...]

I first met Maggie L. Wood online. I don't know if she remembers this or not, but I think it was on my live journal blog when I was still [...]

I've been waiting a long time to read Wendy McClure's The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie. I think that I first [...]

Let me start by saying that there is a lot I want to say a lot about this book, because I really loved it. Not only because it is was [...]

As you know, I was pretty excited to read Cassandra Clare’s City of Fallen Angels, the first in her new trilogy (or the fourth book )  in The Mortal Instruments [...]

When I was a kid, I wanted to play the piano. I figured that I could sit down in front of it and just play. It didn’t matter that at [...]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABrdDlJkXAg?fs=1]I met Edwin in graduate school when I was working on masters degree #1. He was in my Canadian Historiography class and presented his take on some group of [...]

It was really lovely of Melissa from YA Book Shelf to ask me to guest blog as part of her "How Does YA Lit Inspire You Series." She asked me [...]

I received some good news yesterday that I thought that I would share . I was accepted to speak at the Lucy Maud Montgomery at Home in Leaskdale:A Centennial Celebration [...]

There are a couple of perks in my day job. One of which is sometimes getting my hands on advanced reading copies (ARCs) of highly anticipated reads. There are two [...]

I had planned to post this story while I was at residency, but time seemed to move at warp speed towards the end and I never quite got back to [...]

Today we find out who we will work with for the semester. I like the idea that I have some kind of control over the process. That I can go [...]