(courtesy Allen & Unwin) We are supposed to face our fears; that’s the prevailing advice and stacked up against being frozen to the foot by dreading what terrified your soul, it’s pretty sound advice. In theory. But, and here’s the sticking point, facing what makes us fearful goes against every Continue Reading
Book review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Working out who you are is a full-time, lifelong job. But it gets going in earnest when we’re teenagers when life goes from idle, childlike curiosity to something chaotically emotional and emotional with a thousand competing questions buzzing for contemplative airtime in our head. It’s a Continue Reading