So, with the Polaris Prize shortlist coming out in 5 days (and 17 hours), I have finally decided on my favourites from the longlist. There were 40 altogether, and I cannot admit to having intimate knowledge of more than 10 of them, but thanks to CBC Radio 3, I have managed to listen to a […]
Archives for June, 2011
Robert Kroetsch
Recently I was given this book by a friend. I had never heard of Robert Kroetsch before, and was working my way towards the book when I found out the author had just passed away in a car crash near Edmonton. And so although I have only read this one book of his (his last) […]
bees
At least the honeybee can fly Lately I’ve been thinking about bees. In the paper a few weeks ago, a headline read: ‘Parasite blamed for death of 90% of honeybee colonies on Vancouver Island.’ They blamed climate change or a harmful parasite or maybe both. I didn’t read the whole thing. There was a picture […]
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