by Roger Zelazny When reading, you can sometimes smell the pungent odour of a cliffhanger coming a mile away. With Lord of Light, I caught a tinge of this as I progressed without approaching anything that resembled where we were in the introduction. The more I read, the more nervous I grew, probably coming to…
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It’s very interesting what good writing can evoke in the mind of the reader. (This probably stands out in my mind right now, as I’m preparing to speak on this topic very soon.) While reading the works of Gogol, this does bring about images of the Ukrainian countryside and various powerful emotions, as you may…
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Lucifer was just reviewed on The Eloquent Page. Check it out, and remember to check it out.
Apparently, I’m the #19 Canadian book reviewer on Goodreads this week, for some reason. (I think it’s because I went back and edited a number of reviews, but don’t tell anyone…)
by Daniel Wallace Having been reminded of Big Fish when trying to come to an understanding of E. J. Lavoie’s The Gardens of Goshen, I felt compelled to pick this one up and give it another go. It seems somewhat fitting that I can look back on this story and reminisce. You see, my first…
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by E. J. Lavoie “Just for a little while, let’s talk, okay? Man to man, father to son. No more stories.” William Bloom said that to his father in Daniel Wallace’s novel, Big Fish. Hard as William tries, even on his father’s deathbed, he can’t cut through his father’s tall tales and jokes to reach…
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by Christopher Hitchens As you may be able to tell from my review of Arguably, I have an immense respect for the late Hitchens and his writing. Hitchens had a very clear and unique voice––a point which he makes in Mortality, as he goes off to give writing advice––and he wrote in a way that…
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by William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch should be thought of less as a book and more as an undertaking. It took me multiple attempts to trudge through the “narrative” and actually––I assume––somewhat walk away with a bit of understanding of what I witnessed. I will also admit that the humour passed me by more-or-less unnoticed…
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by Adam Dreece I’m really confused by Breadcrumb Trail. I mean, it’s not like the story itself is confusing or anything, but let me explain myself. After finishing Along Came a Wolf, I was intrigued on the world that Dreece crafted, expecting big things to happen. And, it seems that the author agreed with me;…
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by Adam Dreece I was given a copy of Along Came a Wolf by the author in exchange for a review. Now, this isn’t something I usually do, not because I choose not to, but because I hardly ever get approached to do so, though I’m sure there are probably many good reasons for that….
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