K's Book Review

Hey everyone, I hope you're having a happy Monday. We're now into December and the cold weather is slowly starting to effect us Canadians. Thankfully for the last couple of weeks the temperature has been hanging around -4, which is pretty warm for this time of year. The windchill is another thing altogether. A couple weeks ago I told my friend that I was having trouble finding new and interesting books to read. She leant me a couple of books that she enjoyed to get me through to the new year. This was one of those books. Her description of the book was that it was about a murder in the heart of Stalin's communist Russia. With not much more to go on I sat down to give it a read. It took me about three days to finish. Let me tell you a bit about it: Leo is a high ranking officer of the MGB, Russia's military police under Stalin's rule. His job is to investigate any implication of traitors to the revolution. Once he finds someone he turns them in, they are inte...

Happy Wednesday everyone! If you are in the northern hemisphere I hope you are keeping warm... Reading has seemed to slow down a little even though I am on a vacation of sorts. I have taken up a new hobby: Knitting!  But despite that I am still reading little bits at a time.  Lately I find with the winter I am feeling a little tired all the time, and reading is taking backseat to sleeping no matter what time of day it is. I know that this may not be the case in different countries, maybe where the sun shines more often, but here in Canada we are lucky to see the sun a couple times a week.  So because I care about your health let me give you all a few pieces of advice. 1. Although it is cold, going outside is important at least once a week. This means that you have to go out and do something. This doesn't count walking out to your car or running through a parking lot. Shovel the drive way or something, just get outside and get a little sun if you can. 2. Take vitami...