Summer Books and Where We Read Them
Time and space expands at Lake Temagami.
Time and space expands at Lake Temagami.
I’m coming to this blog with a feeling of guilt. I had intended to comment on many more books. But one day in an effort to create order on my desk and space in my head, I shelved every single book in the growing tower. Then I started a new pile. Writing time has been…
Colm Feore’s portrayal of Richard III is exceptional.
Anyone who has supported someone they love through diagnostic processes or provided care and support at the end-of-life is courageous. And these people appear to be my readers.
The Hours That Remain shines a light into the dark corners of news coverage, police investigations and our justice system.
Thursday June 2, 2022. Autumn’s Grace: An interview with friend and fellow author, Janet Turpin-Myers. Book sales by Different Drummer Books (Burlington). Author Reading Series at The Tamahaac Club, Ancaster Ontario.
An evocative tale, from the perspective of a cocker spaniel, about his life with Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
A dash of caprice against a backdrop of horror.
There are books in my library that I have reread several times since their first publication. Among them are Timothy Findleys’s Famous Last Words and Pilgrim, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Alistair Macleod’s And Birds Call Forth The Sun and The Lost Salt Gift of Blood and Carol Shields’ Unless. But until Michelle Butler Hallett’s…
It’s quite literally been a plague year, but these books have kept my spirits bouyant. I’ve been both engaged and educated.