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September 18, 2014
20 Book List
When my Goodreads and Facebook friend, Liisa Rene, tagged me to list 10 of my favourite books, I checked my Goodreads list and ended up with 20. Then I managed, with much difficulty to narrow the list down to 10 but I’d left out so many books that I loved. How can you compare the […]
July 24, 2014
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? My inspiration for a recent picture book manuscript was a sighting of wolves at our cabin in the Cariboo. It was last winter when we were hunkered down in front of a roaring fire and my daughter spotted three wolves crossing the frozen lake. We quickly ran to […]
June 1, 2014
Review of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
If you’re a writer struggling with plot, read Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl. You will be inspired! Flynn knows how to hook the reader, lead her down the garden path, only to reveal that all the assumptions she has made so far are false. Flynn’s ability to surprise the reader with plot changes so dramatic [...]
May 25, 2014
Review of The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a brilliant, funny, tragic story about a couple of dying teenagers with cancer. What? you’re probably thinking. I wouldn’t go near that kind of book with a ten foot pole. Who wants to be depressed? Who wants to think about cancer? Cancer is all around you [...]
April 7, 2014
The War on Wolves
The War on Wolves This winter, my husband, Michael Sather, and I saw three wolves cross the frozen lake in front of our cabin in the Cariboo. It was one of those special moments when time stands still, when you are grateful to witness something rare and beautiful. At the same time, the BC government [...]
July 5, 2013
Review of David Guterson’s Ed King
Ed King by David Guterson is a deliciously clever and brilliant page-turner that impressed me with its sheer audaciousness. Guterson is a superb storyteller who will hook you almost from the start and deliver surprise after surprise as his characters head for disaster. As much as I enjoyed Guterson’s quiet and lovely first novel ‘Snow [...]
June 9, 2013
Review of Alix Ohlin’s Signs and Wonders
Signs and Wonders, Alix Ohlin’s collection of short stories, is a beautiful book. Ohlin makes the art of writing short stories seem like a cakewalk. Her writing appears effortless; her choice of wording so perfect that you think to yourself ‘of course that’s the only way it could be said.’ Many writers of short stories [...]
March 17, 2013
My Stand-up Desk
My Stand-up Desk Unless you’re like Hemingway who is reported to have stood up while typing his novels, the writer’s life could kill you. Too many writers (me included) and social media types spend too many hours sitting in front of the computer. I enjoy physical exercise and it’s seldom I miss a day working [...]
March 11, 2013
Review of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Review of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle I can’t say enough about David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. It is a strange and wonderful novel that hooks the reader in a myriad of ways. The passages in which he describes nature are so lyrical and beautifully written, I stopped to reread them several times, [...]
February 12, 2013
TACA airlines refuses to compensate for lost luggage!
Our luggage was lost on a recent vacation to Costa Rica. If you think this is unusual, think again. According to Barbara S. Peterson on the Conde Nast Traveler 26 million suitcases go missing on international flights and an amazing 1 million suitcases are never found. In the U.S. more than188, 254 reports of missing [...]
