avisannschild

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About me

Gender Female
Location Montreal, Canada
Introduction Book addict with a strong bias towards female authors. Proud owner of over 1500 books. Montrealer for the past 20 years. French-to-English translator by day. Cat lover. Obsessed hunter of lookalike covers.

Favourite genres: literary fiction, memoirs, personal essays, mysteries, SF, contemporary fiction, graphic novels/memoirs, YA and some nonfiction. Genres I don’t usually read: chick lit, paranormal fiction, Christian fiction, horror, thrillers, academic nonfiction, romance and westerns. Although I enjoy poetry, I don’t review it.

My email address is: shereadsandreads[at]gmail[dot]com

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares to other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”

— Martha Graham (1894-1991)