I’ve been looking up Hilton Head, South Carolina, trolling for authors. I’ve already found two, without expanding my search beyond Hilton Head Island itself: Patricia Cornwell has multiple websites, including some scary-looking promo videos for her mysteries. Great fun. Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed was fairly contentious when it came out. […]
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Currently reading: The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Toronto Life and bits and pieces of other things. What I should be doing instead: Writing, getting things ready for the play I am casting in January, getting ready for the holidays. Necessary procrastination i.e. my top priorities of the moment: Holiday social events. Writing and posting
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This is a picture of Evelyn Lau as an adult. She is currently making her living as a writer so this story has a happy ending. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid was Evelyn Lau’s first book, based on diaries written after she ran away from home. It is fascinating but also very depressing. Her
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Rabindranath Maharaj’s, A Perfect Pledge, was short listed for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the 2006 Rogers Fiction Prize. Many post-colonial works have been written in fashionable, magic realistic styles. This novel avoids postmodern cliche. The story is by turns realistic, sensitive and satirical. In the 1960’s, life is hard in rural Trinidad. The novel
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I find it hard to write objectively about something like a wedding. Leaving out the personal pictures and names, here I go: Saturday I went to a wedding at Hart House chapel, University of Toronto. There was seating for about twenty-five people in the chapel, dominated by post-war murals and stained glass. A table, topped
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Here are some pictures from Toronto’s new opera house. It opened in June 2006. The outside of the building is fairly plain but the inside is inspired. My favorite change from the Hummingbird Centre is that the R. Fraser Elliott Hall has an open orchestra pit which gives the musicians their rightful place as performers.
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It’s already on and it’s in Spanish. What are you waiting for? I’ve never been to this before but it seems like such a darned good idea. For more info, you can check them out at http://www.tilff.com/
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I am the luckiest ‘girl’ in the world. Yesterday, for my birthday, my husband presented me with an enormous bag of books. The amazing thing is that, diverse as they were, each book was something I would have asked for. Even the C.S.I. book, which I probably would not have picked up myself, looks intriguing.
In an era where visual-literacy and computer-literacy are de rigour but appreciation for novels feels old-fashioned, it’s nice to meet people online who share my obsession. Today I updated my link to A Reader’s Journal. This blogger, AKA Booklogged, recently ran a book giveaway contest which my new book blog buddy Lotus Reads won. What
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