Tonight I attended a reading with Amy Bloom at the Canadian Writing Conference at the University of BC. Ms. Bloom is an amazing oral storyteller, with a fabulous sense of humour and quick witted mind. She has written several novels; her newest, Lucky Us, will be released this summer and I am looking forward to reading it! […]
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I just wrote a bad review. I haven’t done a lot of them. I know the key to a good “bad” review is constructive criticism, but what if sometimes you just want to rant? Ranting can be so freeing. However if you aren’t mindful it has the potential to alienate people, which of course I […]
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Through the closed windows I hear the muffled rumblings of trucks barreling through the nearby intersection. As I stumble out of bed to double check they are properly sealed, I watch a random minivan slam on its brakes as it wrongfully pulls into oncoming traffic; one horn blasts, and then another. I draw the heavy […]
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I’ve been hearing about an elusive reader phenomenon called BookTube for awhile, but I did not make the time to check it out until two nights ago. I finally decided to explore by searching for “BookTube” in the YouTube search bar, and there I found myself with hundreds of video options! I found tons of […]
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Wouldn’t it be fun to be an advice columnist? I just purchased Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, which is a collection of the best of the best advice given by Strayed’s once anonymous alter ego, Sugar. I purchased the book for my mom as I have heard great things about it, and the few […]
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