ThunderCon

Guess where I’ll be selling Lucifer on October 25th? I’ll give you a hint: It may have something to do with the title of this post…

Who We Are

by Elizabeth May After reading Mulcair’s Strength of Conviction and Trudeau’s Common Ground, it seemed fitting to end my excursion into political memoirs with May’s Who We Are. (It would appear as though I have a glaring omission with no Harper book, but I suppose it’s hard to read something that doesn’t exist.) Where the…
Read more →

Greenstone Readings

Know anyone from Greenstone? Going to BE in Greenstone on the 21st? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, I think you may understand what I’m suggesting…

Common Ground

by Justin Trudeau If you’re Canadian and have access to the internet or television, you’re probably familiar with the laughably bad attack ad against Justin Trudeau that the Harper Conservatives have been airing for quite some time now. The unfortunate reality is that, while I say it’s laughably bad, people always spout that line when…
Read more →

An October Update

I’m participating at a number of events throughout the month! On Oct. 21, I’ll be reading from Lucifer all day at the Greenstone Public Library! I’ll be at the Longlac branch at 11am, the Geraldton branch at 2pm, and the Beardmore branch at 6:30pm. Next, on Oct. 25, I’ll be selling my book at ThunderCon,…
Read more →

Strength of Conviction

by Tom Mulcair When it comes to politics, I will admit that, while I can be highly opinionated, I have historically been largely apathetic. In making it my quest to become a more informed, active (hopefully) citizen, I figured that reading the memoirs written by leaders of major federal parties would probably be helpful. Since…
Read more →

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green I have a bad habit of occasionally reading stories in a way that I suspect the author would hate. In the case of The Fault in Our Stars, it started when I gave Hazel, the protagonist, an Essex accent and continued when Augustus, her love interest, became a young Brad Pitt. (Young,…
Read more →

Birdie

by Tracey Lindberg I occasionally struggle getting into a story. In the case of Trainspotting and A Clockwork Orange, it had to do with the unfamiliar dialects. (Trainspotting improved once I was able hear the Scottish accent in my mind, whereas the great writing in A Clockwork Orange made the meanings of the made-up slang…
Read more →

Starship Troopers

by Robert A. Heinlein A smarter man than I once said that, while it is perfectly reasonable to dismiss a book due to its terrible beginning, a strong start doesn’t preclude a terrible transformation. (The original quote actually dealt with videogames, but it fits Starship Troopers so well that I couldn’t help myself here.) The…
Read more →