Here is this weeks Booking Through Thursday : Suggested by Nithin: I’ve always wondered what other people do when they come across a word/phrase that they’ve never heard before. I mean, do they jot it down on paper so they can look it up later, or do they stop reading to look it up on […]
When my son was four, I was fortunate enough to visit Calgary Alberta during the Calgary Stampede. This experience was wonderful for me, especially because it helped me put to rest some of my Easterner’s prejudices/ fears about Westerners (i.e. that they hated everyone from Toronto). I found people in Calgary to be very friendly
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It’s official now. My latest writing obsession is sex. It started with a creepy story I wrote, inspired by a car breakdown and an unpleasant incident. That, I thought, was the end of it, until I realized how carefully I avoid sex in my writing. I want to be couth and literary in my adult
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I was in the pub after at my writer’s circle this week and one of the members made an observation. I never reveal myself in my fiction. She does, automatically. Her novel in-in-progress grows organically out of her life and it is very funny and touching for it. Out of the ten of us, we
I will be attending the Writers Circle of Durham Region Ontario Writers Conference May 2 – 3. Order of Canada recipient Wayson Choy is the honorary patron. As a member of the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region, it will be interesting to see its first Ontario Writers’ Conference. I will miss the Friday master classes
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With the holidays on, I have been reading but not taking the time to write reviews. Here are a couple of quick recommendations: I recently read the first two books in the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. These are well-done teen dystopias. Of course I enjoyed them, in a craft-envious kind of way. They should
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I stole this fabulous idea from Ebony’s reading blog. Read ‘Em and Eat Party Invite several friends over for a potluck party. Each person brings 3-5 books to give away. Inside each book, guests write their name, number and a brief review of the book. Each person picks several books to take home. After the
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Do you use any of the online book-cataloguing sites, like Library Thing or Shelfari? Why or why not? (Or . . . do you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking to?? (grin))If not an online catalog, do you use any other method to catalog your book collection? Excel spreadsheets, index cards, a notebook, anything?Despite
Who, me catalogue? Read More »
This week’s question is suggested by Island Editions:Do you have a favourite book, now out of print, that you would like to see become available again? (I have several…)I don’t have a favorite by my husband does. He reads the historical children’s series by Ronald Welch which starts with I Am David. Just last week
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Last week I finished reading Ditch, by Hal Niedzviecki. There is an excellent review of it (“The harrowing of Hal,” by Kevin Bolger, The Globe and Mail, September 8, 2001) on Niedzviecki’s own home page: Smell It.ca. I have to agree with much that is said here. The matieral (Debs a porn queen and her
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