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At Forests and Fiction, I write about books (and other things) that I love
In 2021 I began reading for pleasure again for the first time in a decade. What started as a passive hobby is now a full-fledged passion.
Reading is a wonderful release for me that opens so many worlds and possibilities. Forests and Fiction serves as a place to celebrate this passion alongside the other things that bring joy in my life as well.
LATEST POSTS
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Book Review: Beach Read by Emily Henry
Contemporary romance isn’t a genre I read a whole lot of. I often visit these books in between heavy fantasy novels as little palate cleansers that help me shift gears and stay out of a reading rut. Because of this, it’s taking me a long time to get through Emily Henry’s backlist, despite knowing that…
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April 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving
For the first time since I started my maternity leave, it feels like the days are flying by. While collectively it feels like time has moved quickly when I consider I now have a 7-month-old baby, up until recently, each day in and of itself felt extremely long. Sometime around when baby girl began to…
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Book Review: The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon
The Dark Mirror was one of my most anticipated reads of 2025 and I’m now confident it’ll be one of my favourite reads of the year. It was everything I could have wanted from another instalment in this series and then some.
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Book Review: The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon
The Bone Season series has become one of my favourite fantasies of all time, and The Mask Falling was no exception. Shannon has created such a stunningly intricate and terrifying dystopian world full of magic, mystery, and violence, and I am completely entranced by her ability to weave such an engrossing narrative.
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Book Review: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Ministry of Time was a novel that caught my eye when I started seeing it on “Best Of” lists in 2024. The premise—a civil servant assigned to work with a historical figure who has time-travelled to the present against his will—sounded exceedingly fun. It was this, but it also was so much more. It…
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March 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving
I found myself thinking about this quote from A Moveable Feast (one of the few classics I could read on repeat) as March rolled in this year. Living in eastern Canada means that for five months of the year, you’re trapped inside your house or indoors because the air hurts your face. It’s dark when…
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