Book Review: This is How We Love
Book explores what makes a family and questions of love I’ve never been to Newfoundland. But thanks to authors such as Megan Gail Coles, Kathleen Winter, Michael Crummey and Lisa Moore, I feel I’ve visited many times. With their books and stories as portals, I feel more like a local than a tourist in the […]
Sharing stories together with Hasan Namir
Sharing writing in person again energizes poet Hasan Namir When I’m working on a poetry book, I get excited at the thought of reading these poems in public, to an audience of poet readers and authors. That moment as I walk up on the stage and feel the energy around me — it elevates me. […]
Book Review: Kiss the Red Stairs
Extensive research and personal journey brings the past to life in Kiss the Red Stairs Marsha Lederman has always been interested in telling stories. As a child of Holocaust survivors, it was trained into her that she needed to find stability in a steady income. So rather than studying literature and pursue her dream of […]
Book Review: My Road From Damascus
Truth is strange and challenging in new memoir Truth, as they say, is stranger than fiction. Not since reading Tara Westover’s Educated in 2018, had I come across a book that drove this point home so very well. Until I read Jamal Saeed’s My Road from Damascus. Stories we hear about Syria in the media, […]
Book Review: When We Lost Our Heads
O’Neill’s newest novel sticks with you long after you’re done reading I mentioned to a friend that I was reading When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill and she told me she was jealous that I got to read it for the first time. Now, I get to be jealous of everyone who hasn’t […]
Five can’t miss events
Iain Reid and Meira Cook headline at Saturday Night Gala The Whistler Writers Festival offers 13 author reading events and 12 workshops this fall and there is something for everyone. Poetry events, free events for children, memoir and story writing workshops, panels about fiction and non-fiction — and of course, there’s the Saturday Night Gala […]
Book Review: Mansions of the Moon
600 BC brought to life in Mansions of the Moon Bestselling author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts, Shyam Selvadurai returns after more than a decade with Mansions of the Moon, an exploration of the early life of the man who would become the ‘Buddha’, as seen through the eyes of Yasodhara, the wife […]
Book Review: Our American Friend
No one can be trusted in Our American Friend by Anna Pitoniak Now, I’m not saying that author Anna Pitoniak borrowed and improved some family backstory from a notorious American political family, or looked to the latest news headlines for her latest novel, Our American Friend, but the book could be ripped from the headlines […]
Book review: Last One Alive
The bodies stack up in Last One Alive by Amber Cowie Amber Cowie had me at “witch” and “murder,” two keywords that capture my attention just fine on their own but together are an irresistible combination for a thriller. The Squamish writer’s newest book is Last One Alive and the bodies really pile up in […]
Book Review: In the Dark We Forget
Forget what you know in In the Dark We Forget by Sandra SG Wong I’m a sucker for amnesia as a plot device. It creates so much confusion and so many problems for so many people, as it does in In The Dark We Forget, a new psychological thriller by Sandra SG Wong. Cleo Li […]