books

Drink Tea Read Books

Some of my winter reading (& a shout-out to the Book Rant Podcast)

This month's #DrinkTeaReadBooks: Silvia Moreno Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, the first three Witcher books, I finally read Frank Herbert's Dune, amongst several others! And a shout-out to Book Rant Podcast for being awesome.

Drink Tea Read Books

Drink tea and read ALL the books 2019.12.15

Split Tooth, Lettres en forêt urbaine, All Systems Red, Les brutes et la punaise, and more: there have been so many good books read this year!

books

Reading Notes on “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers

This sequel continues the theme of found family from the first book, and is bursting at the seams with several themes common to a lot of disabled, queer, and trans experiences: dysphoria, dissociation and depersonalization, healing from traumatic childhoods, gender fluidity, to name just a few.

Drink Tea Read Books

Drink tea and read comic books 2019.09.22

This month's edition of #DrinkTeaReadBooks features some pu'er-fuelled ramblings prompted by a recent reading of Alan Moore's "Watchmen" and Kat Verhoeven's "Meat and Bone".

Drink Tea Read Books

Drink tea and read books 2019.08.12

Drink tea and read books! The biweekly assortments are now a slightly less formal monthly or so report on what I've been reading lately, and what I've been drinking lately.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief round-up of interesting things for the 7th of June 2019

The blogging challenge is back for the month of June! Decolonial feminism, political changes, a superb debunking of Jordan Peterson, and the report on the genocide of Indigenous women and girls in Québec and Canada.

bandes dessinées

Five Finds at the Festival BD de Montréal

Leif and I were taking advantage of the sun in La Fontaine park when we stumbled upon the Festival BD de Montréal. So here are the 5 BDs that I found on Saturday!

books

Reading Notes on "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers

It's the journey, and not the destination, that counts — even when one is on a ship like the Wayfarer, whose job is to punch stable wormholes through the fabric of space-time.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 12th of April 2019

Here's the round-up from between the 30th of March and the 12th of April, 2019.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of March 2019

This week: a post-apocalyptic novel by Aliette de Bodard in the ruins of Paris, the ethics of mining trauma for literature by Lindsay Nixon, the inimitable Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom, a critical look at IWD in Québec by Émilie Nicholas in Le Devoir, and more!

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief assortment of interesting stuff — March 1 2019

This week, I look at the second novel of the Ciel series by Sophie Labelle, an interview with Julie Michaud, the book Black Writers Matter by Whitney French, the comic The Thread That Binds by Noel Arthur Heimpel, and much more...

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of February 2019

This week, let's look at a comic book collection of nonbinary fairy tales, a ritual on destroying your books to make art, a book that shows how feminism became a marketplace buzzword, and more...

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief Assortment of Interesting Stuff — 18th of January 2019

This week's biweekly round-up: an interview back in December with Angela Davis, the latest Sandy&Nora podcast episode, ancient Roman history, and more.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief Assortment of Interesting Stuff — 4th of January 2019

Every two Fridays, I publish a brief round-up of some of the interesting articles/blogs/YouTube videos/books/music/games that have come across my metaphorical and actual desk.

companion species

Reading notes on Jere Alexander's "And The Dogs Were Silent"

In this book, through pitbulls, we catch a glimpse into the absurdity of the human-dog relationship as it exists today in settler colonial North America.

creative writing

Taking Up Space: Tara McGowan-Ross speaks about "Girth"

Girth is the first book by Tara McGowan-Ross, a Mi'kmaw poet and philosopher who lives in Montréal, and who I met in the Creative Writing at Concordia University.

Irish Short Story

Silent Hunger

Surviving Exile in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s “Summer Pudding” Throughout the canon of the Irish short story in the twenty-first century, special attention is given to the nature of Irish identity. From James Joyce, Frank O’Connor, to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the question of

Irish Short Story

Reading Log on ‘Blood and Water’ by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

Stories about mental illness are something I seek out, particularly. I may be a little harsh in these notes towards the author, not because I believe the author is wrong or the story is terrible, but because the treatment of mental illness is something

James Joyce

Reading Log of Clay and the Diviner

Follow up to my post on Clay by James Joyce — but this time I'm also looking at the short story The Diviner by Brian Friel. These are notes taken from class and may be a bit scattered – leaving them here because they may be

James Joyce

Notes on Clay, a short story by James Joyce

21 Nov 2014: These notes were first published on the 9th of May 2013. I have migrated them back out of the black void of the internet, and here they are, slightly edited for clarity. I first read this story much too early in