I have to apologize to my poor mother. Growing up, I would often engage in heated arguments about religion and politics with my father and brother. Every week we'd get into it as we drove to the football game, while Mom would beg us to be quiet and threaten to get out of the car at the next traffic light if we didn't stop. But you know, we still loved each other even if we disagreed and even if I had my brother pinned down in the back seat threatening to spit in his face if he didn't admit The Liberals would lose the next election. I think these discussions sharpened our wits. Even today, I often write as if I'm arguing with my brother in Dad's 93 Taurus. I've never believed religion and politics were taboo subjects; after all, what else is worth discussing?
So here are a few books that have made me think and I believe are worthy of heated discussion.
Categories: Reviews, Discussions, Authors, Winnipeg, Night Table Recommendations
People have often asked me why I chose to write spiritual poetry. This is what I always tell them: "Poetry is the language of the soul. It is also the only art form that can be used to tackle any topic, even those that we would find difficult to talk about." As a writer, I want to challenge my readers to think differently, to look at themselves in Life's mirror. I want them to re-connect with their inner child in order to experience growth and well-being.
As a reader, I expect nothing less. All the books that I have read have helped me to understand myself. In the list below, you will find the four books that have literally changed my life. The fifth one is a recent discovery that I also recommend warmly.
Categories: Reviews, Poetry, Authors
Here is the trailer for Room, winner of the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the 2010 Governor General's Award.
Congratulations are due for Saskatoon's . On November 9, The Hunchback Assignments won the 2010 TD Canada Children's Literature Award, the children's literature equivalent of winning the Giller Prize.
steampunk thriller was selected from a stellar field of Canadian Children's Literature including Dragon Seer, Home Free, A Thousand Years of Pirates and Watching Jimmy.
Arthur will be reading from the second book in his , The Dark Deeps, at Saskatoon's Young Adult Author Extravaganza on November 25.
Categories: Awards, Authors, Saskatoon
has written a little something for our blog. is the author of Bedtime Story which follow up his bestselling, Before I Wake and The World More Full of Weeping.
I woke up this morning to the sound of rain. A hard November rain. Really, there are few sounds quite as comforting, especially when you're snuggled deep into flannel sheets. So long as the rain stays outside, that is. That might seem a given, what with rain being an outside thing, but it's not. Especially living in a house initially built in 1910, and roughly added to and further cobbled together over the next twenty years. There have been times when it was as rainy in the living room as it was outside. Almost.
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