SPOILERS AHEAD … TORTURE AND GRIEF’S PARTIAL RESOLUTION Ask anyone who has experienced immense and immeasurable grief to describe it in any way. Odds are you will be given a bewildered look and an exhausted shrug of the shoulders accompanied by a haunting look in the eyes that this Continue Reading
Drawing Wallace the Brave: Will Henry brings his protagonist to life
As a writer who is, naturally enough, most comfortable with moving words merrily around a page, I am endlessly fascinated by the way artists, whose talents I most assuredly do not share alas, exercise their creative gift. This fascination increases inestimably when it is an artists drawing a comic Continue Reading
Now this is music Canadian/Canadienne: The Monowhales, Port Cities, Ralph, Charlotte Cardin, Virginia to Vegas #CanadaDay
I am fairly certain I was a Canadian in another life. That, or there is a Canadian hiding somewhere deep inside of me that has gifted me with a love of salmon, friendliness, bonhomie, openness and maple syrup, and a whole host of other things that make visiting this Continue Reading
Christmas in July #1: Book review of Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher
There is something deliciously wonderful about subsuming yourself in any book that takes places at Christmas, even if like Andrew Zurcher’s debut novel, Twelve Nights, it is more situational than thematic. There might be little that is innately festive in Zurcher’s lustrously-novel but that is in fact it’s greatest Continue Reading