Dog-Eared Cafe//Riverside Reading Series

If you haven’t been to the Dog-Eared Cafe in Paris, Ontario, then you are missing out. It’s full of delicious drinks, gorgeous ambience, interesting people, and heaps of books for sale.

It’s basically our dream space.

We recently also discovered the Riverside Reading Series, a local literary community which is a space for local writers to engage and connect. The dream!

The Riverside Reading Series engages local writers and invites them to speak/share their work for up to fifteen minutes on the last Saturday of every month. The next gathering will be Saturday, March 25 at the Dog-Eared Cafe. Once the weather gets warmer, the event will move outdoors. We hope to see you there!

Reading List 2016

Dear Masses,

Happy end of 2016. (Gulp, how is that even possible?)

As you may or may not know, I love reading and have an annual reading contest with my sister Catherine.

She was a non-participant this year, but I'll share my list anyway. My goal is always to read 52 books (and if we want to count the number of times I read through the book I'm writing with my friend, Lindsay, then I may be right on the number this year. Just saying.)

Hope your holiday week is lovely.

x.

1. Don’t Waste Your Life-John Piper

2. Tribes-Seth Godin

3. Bonhoeffer-Eric Metaxas

4. The Light Between Oceans-M.L. Stedman

5. 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership-John Maxwell

6. Beyond Belief-Jenna Miscavige

7. Nobody's Cuter than You-Melanie Shankle

8. The Antelope in the Living Room-Melanie Shankle

9. Kisses from Katie-Katie Davis

10. Attachments-Rainbow Rowell

11. The Journey to Teams-Michael Regan

12. First, Break all the Rules-Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

13. Five Dysfunctions of a Team-Patrick Lencioni

14. The Nest-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney  

15. The Happiness Project-Gretchen Rubin

16. No Ordinary Life-Suzanne Redfearn

17. Sparkly Green Earrings-Melanie Shankle

18. The Nightingale-Kristin Hannah

19. #GirlBoss-Sophia Amoruso

20. A Sudden Light-Garth Stein

21. David and Goliath-Malcolm Gladwell

22. Blink-Malcolm Gladwell

23. Year of Fog-Michelle Richmond

24. Everything I Never Told You-Celeste Ng

25. The Weight of Small Things-Sherri Wood Emmons

26. Start With Why-Simon Sinek

27. The Rosie Project-Graeme Simsion

28. East of Eden-John Steinbeck

29. The Gift of Imperfectionism-Brené Brown

30. The Birth Order Book-Kevin Leman

31. A Spool of Blue Thread-Anne Tyler

32. The History of Us-Leah Stewart

33. Eight Minutes-Lori Reisenbichler

34. Room-Emma Donoghue

35. The Help-Kathryn Stockett

36. The Wealthy Barber-David Chilton

37. And the Mountains Echoed-Khaled Hosseini

38. The Best Kinds of People-Zoe Whittall

39. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying-Marie Kondo

2015 list

2014 list