I finally read ‘In Search of Utopia’
I don’t understand the concept of gifts. I love putting up a Christmas tree, essentially just to hold a lot of lights on dark winter […]
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Haunting the Library
Time for another little mostly-poor-images post! On November 23rd, I wandered over to the Steinbach library. Its official name is the Jake Epp Library. Once […]
Reading Sarah Klassen’s ‘Russian Daughter’
Sarah Klassen is a writer — a poet and novelist. In my humble and possibly uninformed opinion, it seems to me she may be a […]
Reading ‘Nightbitch’
Hey, I read Nightbitch the other night. (I mean, it must be read at night, really.) Thankfully, I read it all in one sitting. I […]
Reading Sofia Samatar’s “The White Mosque”
As we follow Samatar, following the band of travelers, deeper into this unfamiliar distant land, it all begins to feel a little Tolkien-esque. she describes “an atmosphere of wonder and terror”, and says the pilgrims had a “sense of weird, excessive experience”.