As was the case with her first novel, Gilaine Mitchell's follow-up is set in the small town of Stirling. In her debut, Film Society, a group of women meet to watch their favourite films in the red brick house at the end of Anne Street. One of the characters in Film Society,
When I was in the tenth grade, nothing about technology intimidated me. I signed up for classes in high school which taught binary and how to write simple programs, and my first full-time job was working with a woman who could program in COBOL. Goose Lane Editions, 2015
The imagery on the cover, symbols of earth and sky, is a perfect reflection of this novel's focus on the conflict between earth-based and sky-based belief systems in 7th-century Northumbria. And, yet, it is not that simple, because the characters of Wilona and Egan are fully developed and complex. Their
On the list of 10 Perfect Alice Munro sentences, recently selected by CBC, this is the first: "Every year, when you’re a child, you become a different person." It begs the question, "When does one stop becoming somebody new every year?" Perhaps after an event like the incident described in this
Over the summer, I have been reading a lot of magazines. With some magazines, I "subscribe-incessently-and-renew-unthinkingly" and, with others, I practice the "when-I'm-in-the-mood-to-browse-the-newsstand" method. Both of these purchasing methods result in a tremendous backlog of reading for me, because I'm curious about so many things that the stacks quickly become
