Fable by Adrienne Young, Wednesday Books, 2020 - Imagine this - a heroine, having just found true love and her place in a hostile world, finds herself betrayed, beaten, abducted, tied to the mast of a villain’s ship as his vessel heads out to sea. It’s the sort of thing you expect in the beginning/middle …
Month: July 2022
THE MYSTERY OF RIGHT AND WRONG BY WAYNE JOHNSTON
The Mystery of Right and Wrong by Wayne Johnston, Knopf Canada, 2021 - My first introduction to Wayne Johnston was his book ‘The Colony of Unrequited Dreams’, which I think is as good a book as has ever been written in Canada. ‘The Mystery of Right and Wrong’ is a much more difficult novel than …
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MEN IN BLACK (AND A WOMAN)
Isn’t that Super-Preen Court in ‘Murica something? As if striking down federal law related to abortion isn’t enough, they’ve overturned state legislation related to gun control and wiped out legislation aimed at saving the planet from climate change catastrophe. Talk about your men in black (and one woman). I can hardly wait for the justices …
NOSTALGIA
Have you ever participated in setting up or opening a ‘time capsule’? You know, you and/or a group of friends collect a number of things/articles that represent the ‘spirit of your time’, or a particular moment in the life of a group, and you put them in a box, which is then buried or put …
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