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A Personal Library
Last year (May 11, 2023), I came across a post by Molly Templeton on the TOR.com website entitled “Building our Personal Libraries, and the Books We Leave Behind“. In it, she speaks of the books she’s owned the longest: They were, not surprisingly, children’s books from her youth. “The book I’ve owned the longest has… Read more
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It’s summertime, and the living is…
I grew up with books and plenty of trips to the local library. Inevitably, the games that would attract me as a child usually had to do with words. And the el supremo word game had to be Scrabble. Especially in summertime. On those long, tranquil summer evenings at the cottage on Lake Winnipeg, our… Read more
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“Murder Your Darlings”
Every aspiring author – and certainly anyone whose bothered to take a creative writing course – has heard this sage advice. But only recently did I come across a book with the title. I’d like to say I’d read it and taken all the advice offered before beginning The Ravenstones series, but since the book… Read more
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Unexpected Arrivals
Sometimes unexpected books arrive in one’s life. From surprising sources. Through unlikely routes. About subjects one never usually reads. And then, once started, one is compelled to read right to the very end and, finally, write about. Such was the case for When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanthi. The book recently travelled from my… Read more
