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Autumnal Vibes are here again!

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A dirt road in autumn from Word Press Photo Directory.

Summer may not be officially over yet, but September has begun! Which means we are in the ‘Ber months, a shorthand I first saw on the internet for September, October, November and December. Also known as my very favorite stretch of the year. Fall is my very favorite season, Halloween and Christmas are my very favorite holidays, with Thanksgiving also being high on the list. There’s just so much to love about this time of year. (And just for me personally, my birthday is in November. I’m a fall girl through and through, right from the beginning.)

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Judging a Book by its Title: Romantasy/Sci-fi Edition

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The cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

It’s possible I had too much fun with the last one of these, so I’m back with another one. The original intent was just to keep it to pure fantasy books because I read a lot of fantasy, but many of those titles don’t strike me as silly or on-the-nose enough to run with for my fake blurbs. I suppose I could pick many of Sir Pterry’s books, but they’re invalidated by the fact that I’ve either read it or know enough of his style to potentially have a decent guess as to what he was getting at. Branching back into romance got me marginally closer to the kinds of titles I need to really make a post like this work. Also, full disclosure: I picked a sci-fi book because it has the exact style and title I’m looking for. Also, unless it’s hard sci-fi, there are a lot of similarities between fantasy and sci-fi anyway.

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Cherry Blossoms in the GTA: Spring, Transience and International Relations

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Cole-Jonathon Neophytou via Shutterstock

We’re on Cherry Blossom Watch everyone!

What is that? Well, that’s when the City of Toronto and its surrounding areas wait with anticipation for the cherry blossom trees in High Park and elsewhere around the city to bloom.

Cherry blossoms (桜 Sakura in Japanese, 벚꽃 Beotkkok in Korean, 櫻花 Yīng Huā in Chinese, etc.) are small five-petal flowers that are often associated with the color pink, but they come in other colors as well, like white. They’re native to areas in east Asia but they’ve been planted all over the world. They’re the national flower of Japan and they bloom for a short period each spring. In our neck of the woods that usually means late April early May, depending on the weather. They can be seen most famously in High Park, but they can also be found in other places around the city, like Toronto Island and Exhibition Place.

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