If you know me at all you know how important the health of my son and everyone’s child is and thus I bring William to a local children’s gym called My Gym – which, by the way is a palindrome and very clever when you think of a child asking to go to “My Gym“. […]
Always one to want to read anything by a fellow Canadian author, I remember having Lesley Choyce visit my school ages ago so, despite my not having read a lot of his work, I was always a fan. When I finally had the chance to read a full length novel, after hearing his wonderful children’s […]
Beatifically poetic from beginning to end with only one poem at the very end. The Sentimentalists is brilliant in a subtle way. Of course this novel caught my attention when I heard the news of it winning the ScotiaBank Giller Prize. What struck me even more was how young Canadian author Johanna Skibsrud was and […]