Response: What Does the Term Diverse Mean to You?

17 June 2016 / response / 0 Comments
Response: What Does the Term Diverse Mean to You?

On Wednesday, Naz @ Read Diverse Books posted “What Does the Term Diverse Mean to You?”. I’m bumping the review I had scheduled today to write a response to his post, as I’ve been thinking about it a lot these […]

What is Speculative Fiction? Some Thoughts on Genre

16 June 2016 / discussion / 1 Comment
What is Speculative Fiction? Some Thoughts on Genre

I drafted this post back in January when I was trying to add a genre label to Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day. I didn’t know what to tag it, so I took to Google and came across the […]

Review: What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

13 June 2016 / review / 1 Comment
Review: What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

Format/Source: Paperback/Purchased Published: March 2016Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Length: 325 pagesGenre: Short stories (literary/magical realism)Why I Read: Favourite authorRead If You: Like new and fresh short stories, with a hint of the surreal about themRating:  ★★★★½ Links: GoodReads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon  What […]

In Absentia Book Haul

8 June 2016 / Uncategorized / 0 Comments
In Absentia Book Haul

The book publishing world does not (alas) go on hold while I roam. My favourite authors publish books that aren’t yet licensed where I’m travelling, or I find exciting new-to-me stories on foreign bookshelves. At those times my sister, who […]

Brief Thoughts: The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter

6 June 2016 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Brief Thoughts: The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter

This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families […]