Like the moon, marriages wax and wane. In Evan and Mae’s case it takes awhile for their marriage to grow into the promises they made in a hasty elopement after the teenage couple find themselves dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. Moonshine Promises is a collection of short stories, written by Redeemer University English professor John…
Closed borders and travel bans have brought travel and tourism to a halt over the last year. Thomas King’s latest novel offers the reader a vicarious vacation told through the travels of Bird and Mimi, a middle-class Indigenous couple from Guelph, Ontario. They are in Prague on vacation. This trip is one many they undertake…
Nifty grabbers, buckets, garbage bags, earbuds. These are the items we take with us as we clean up the green spaces in our neighbourhood. A year ago, inspired by a friend, we began this action as a way to get outdoors and do something useful. A year later we are still at it and have…
Sportcoat is a cranky old drunk who shoots and injures drug dealer Deem. He doesn’t even remember pulling the gun but his life is now in danger. Fortunately, he is surrounded by a community that works to protect him from the organized crime elements that infiltrate The Cause, a housing project in 1969 Brooklyn. “Deacon…
Lydia and her ten-year-old son Luca are on the run after surviving a violent attack on their family. They need all their wits, endurance and resources to stay ahead of their pursuers as they flee Mexico and head “el norte” to seek refuge in the United States. Lydia, a bookstore owner, and her journalist husband…
I cannot remember a time when I did not have a book or two on the go. My childhood was spent at the public library, reading under a tree, or staying up late into the night with a book. But in this time of social distancing and upheaval, my ability to focus has waned and I’ve read far less than usual.
Rarely has the cover of a book haunted me like this one. The tiny profiles of girls in ponytails lined up in rows looked like a protective screen hiding the face of a woman and kept me looking at it before I dared to open the book. Denhollander’s exposé of the abuse and cover-up of Michigan State University osteopath Larry Nassar was familiar so I knew what I would be facing. The public exposure of Larry Nassar began in August 2016 when Denhollander responded by email to a news story in the IndyStar of how USA Gymnastics failed to report sexual abuse cases.That story provided the moment that Denhollander had been waiting for to report Nassar’s abuse.
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