“This is what I know: She left last night,” (Dey 3). Billie Jean Fontaine is missing. Seventeen years earlier she arrived to a smalltown far in the territory and now she’s left her teenaged daughter Pony, her husband The Heavy, her devoted dog, the teenager Supernatural who always seems to know more than anyone, and the …
I’m very grateful to the Literary Review of Canada for reaching out to me to review Sarah Henstra’s newest novel The Lost Tarot. Read my full review on their Substack, Bookworm!
“I wish I imagined things less. I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t. I do think I am capable of doing something bad…I’m worried that at any moment, I am liable to be taken over by my parasite, and that I will hurt someone,” (Austin 43). Enid’s trying her best. She’s reconnecting with her estranged …
I’m very grateful to the Literary Review of Canada for reaching out to me to review Secret Sex ed. by Russell Smith. Read my full review on their website, or in print!
“You can never win at playing the cis game. You can win on so much, but you will never win that…I hate that they make me choose. I hate it like I hate almost nothing else,” (Plett 125). Thirty-year-old Wendy Reimer’s Mennonite grandmother has just died. After an awkward funeral service, Wendy ends up learning that …
“‘Not invisible…Because it’s there if you look. You’re just not going to find it in the way our history’s told. Canadian history is white people’s history, and they don’t get that because they don’t know that white is a colour. They think they are invisible…We see them clearly because we have to. And we see …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Influencer Program in exchange for an honest review. “That was the thing about families. They knew even the things you wanted to keep secret,” (Sambury). Grieving her mother’s sudden death, Sunny Behre knows she has what it takes to take up her role as leader of her family, as her …
For the past few years I’ve done a Year Ahead Spread on New Year’s Eve using my Wild Unknown tarot deck. It’s a thirteen card spread that is typically done on New Year’s Eve, or on birthdays, to give some insight into the year to come. The first called pulled is for January, the second …
I’m very grateful to the Literary Review of Canada for reaching out to me to review R.M. Vaughan’s posthumous novel Pervatory. Read my full review on their Substack, Bookworm!
“Sometimes patrons ask if my full first name is Benjamin. Then they ask if I know what my name means…They are surprised to find out I’m the oldest of two sons and not the youngest of twelve. They look at me as if I’m wearing the wrong name tag, wearing the wrong name,” (Robinson 31). …
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