When I was twelve, I got a boxed kit which allowed me to draw my own astrology chart. House of Anansi, 2011 More than ten years later, I finally wrapped my head around the mathematical charts in the back of the book. In the meantime, I admired the
You haven’t heard from him much lately, I know. But once upon a time (well, this theme is all about storytelling, right?), Mr BIP was a strong presence in these lands. Some of you might remember when he won a cheerleading award for Dewey’s Read-a-Thon, though lately he’s been reading
Sometimes, you sense the match between you and a particular book immediately. Granta Books, 2012 (via House of Anansi) That's what happened with me and Sara Maitland's book. I still remember the pang of realization in discovering that it had not yet been published: the long wait for
"You don't know how to life your life anymore and you start drowning in it." House of Anansi, 2012 That's the thing about depression, Lynn Crosbie explains in an interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio. She describes what happens when you really start looking at the world, with
At the back of the fourth floor of the library were the oversized books and, among them, I once discovered an assortment of medieval bestiaries. Sometimes I spent the entire day at the campus library on Sundays, and I would allow myself to browse and wander when I needed a
