by Darin Kennedy There are quite a few songs that spoke to me on a deep, visceral level, but never quite to the extent that music spoke to Darin Kennedy, who wrote a book as a result. And, I definitely can’t compete with Anthony Faircloth in Kennedy’s story, The Mussorgsky Riddle. I mean, he set…
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If you don’t happen to have any plans yet, or if you happen to be in the area, stop on by the Thunder Bay Chapters between 12 and 4pm on Sunday November 15th; I’ll be there signing copies of Lucifer, so stop on in and say hi! (I don’t bit, despite what you may have…
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by Rich Terfry When I first heard that Terfry would be publishing his memoir about half a year ago, I could hardly contain my excitement. I love his music, and it was always a joy to read his numerous stories he shared on Facebook ––some of which appear to have made their way into Wicked…
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by Patrick deWitt Some books don’t really live up to the hype surrounding them. The two that spring to mind here are The Alchemist and Good Omens, both of which were repeatedly recommended to me and seemingly universally praised, but I thought were just okay, at best. With multiple awards won, being in the finals…
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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…
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…
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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…
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…
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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,…
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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…
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