My friend and I were talking about books recently, and she said something about how a lot of the things I had been reading lately sounded very depressing. And I sometimes ask myself why I would want to read something about someone’s pain and hurt, which is a question that I can’t always answer, but it often boils down to the fact that the subjects surrounding this pain is usually one of importance, or perhaps despite all the sorrow there is also a piece of […]
“Unbelief is a Terrible Thing, and So is the Hurt we Cause Others Unknowingly”
A couple of years ago I fell in love with the music and voices from the (at that time) currently running broadway revival of The Color Purple, and I realized that while I knew about this book and the subsequent movie adaptation, I had never read nor watched it. But here it fit perfectly into the bingo square for frequently challenged or banned books, so no time like the present. I can’t recall if anyone I knew had read it as a part of our high […]
“We Aren’t the Masters of the Earth. We’re the Servants.”
I wanted to do a little more for the CBR Canada Day reads, but it just didn’t happen. So here, I thought why not cross off a CBR10 bingo square of reading a novel from my home country, but double down and make it related to the history of Canada as well: a historical fiction, but indeed related to missionary communities and tribal warfare in the early 17th century. The great thing about our local library is that all books by Canadian authors will have a […]
“This Isn’t a Wonderful Place for Boys to Play and Have Adventures”
Earlier this year I read another one of Christina Henry’s novels, The Mermaid, which is also a reimagining of a classic story or myth (in that case, of PT Barnum’s infamous Feejee Mermaid). While it was a good read though not super captivating, upon looking at some of Henry’s other works, I was drawn in by a series of covers for the UK versions of her various novels to date, which included this one pictured for Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook. And you know […]