Literary Lizard

I’m Lizz, a chaotic mood reader.

I read and review a lot of horror, romance, fantasy, and speculative fiction. 📍 In a cozy book-nook, somewhere in Canada.

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  • Review: Sleeping Giants

    I managed to find some time over the holidays to read a couple new books, but one of them was far more compelling than the others. I’m talking about Sleeping Giants, a debut novel (and the first in what will become a series) by Canadian author Sylvain Neuvel. Read more

  • 2016 Reading Challenge

    This year I challenged myself to read more new books than ever before. I was worried I wouldn’t have time to achieve this goal, but I surprised myself. I was able to read 30 new books before Halloween! Now my Goodreads account is congratulating me. I’m going to once again challenge myself to write one sentence reviews… Read more

  • One Book, One Community

    Earlier this week I attended one of the One Book, One Community (OBOC) events in Waterloo Region. This year was the fifteenth anniversary of OBOC, making it the longest running community reading program in Canada. And you know what? I just found out about it three weeks ago! Read more

  • Review: Dinner

    A friend of mine asked for a book recommendation today, and I told her to read Dinner by CĂ©sar Aira without even thinking twice. This cute little book has a pink cover (it’s actually a picture of that disgusting macaroni-olive loaf, a slap in the face to both macaroni and olives) and may or may not be… Read more

  • 2015 Reading Challenge

    This year I challenged myself to read 25 new books, and kept track of my progress through my Goodreads account. I am proud to say that as of last week, I successfully completed this challenge! Now I can spend my December re-reading some of my all-time favourites (I’m coming for you again, Gatsby!). Today, I… Read more

  • “It came from City Lights…”

    When people walk into my apartment one of the first things they see are my bookshelves, and one of the first things they say is, “Wow, you have a lot of books.” I guess they aren’t wrong. Being a huge bookworm/literature nerd, I do buy a lot of books. I even have duplicates of some… Read more

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