17 April 2019 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.
12 April 2019 biweekly round-up Assortiment bref de trucs intéressants — 12 avril 2019 Donc, voici ce que j'ai lu entre le 30 mars et le 12 avril 2019.
12 April 2019 biweekly round-up 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.
15 March 2019 biweekly round-up Assortiment bref de trucs intéressants — 15 mars 2019 Cette semaine: un roman de fiction spéculative d'Aliette de Bodard, un essai de Lindsay Nixon, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars de Kai Cheng Thom, un regard très critique sur le contexte québécois de la journée internationale des droits des femmes d'Émilie Nicholas, et encore plus!
15 March 2019 biweekly round-up 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!
12 March 2019 littérature québécoise Notes de lecture sur Ciel 2. Dans Toutes Les Directions de Sophie Labelle «Ciel 2» nous montre une expérience d'école secondaire positive pour un personnage trans, sans toutefois oublier complètement la réalité qu'il est encore très difficile d'être un-e ado queer ou trans «sorti-e du placard» au secondaire ici au Québec.
1 March 2019 biweekly round-up Assortiment bref de trucs intéressants — 1 mars 2019 Cette semaine, on regarde le deuxième roman Ciel de Sophie Labelle, une entrevue avec Julie Michaud, la BD "The Thread That Binds", une nouvelle de Tove Janssons, le nouveau livre Black Writers Matter de Whitney French et encore plus...
1 March 2019 biweekly round-up 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...
22 February 2019 cancre Réflexions sur le cancre Je réfléchis beaucoup sur le cancre que j'étais, dernièrement. Réflexions aussi inspiré par ma lecture de Chagrin d'école de Daniel Pennac.
15 February 2019 biweekly round-up 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...
15 February 2019 biweekly round-up Assortiment bref de trucs intéressants — 15 février 2019 Cette semaine, on regarde un recueil de bandes dessinées sur des contes de fées nonbinaires, un jeu pour détruire tes livres pour en faire de l'art, un livre sur comment le féminisme est devenu un buzzword du marché privé, et encore plus!
5 February 2019 littérature québécoise Notes de lecture sur "Nous étions nés pour ne jamais mourir" de Lise Vaillancourt Parfois, un livre te tombe sur la tête sans te prévenir et te bouleverse.
18 January 2019 biweekly round-up 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.
18 January 2019 biweekly round-up Assortiment bref de truc intéressants — 18 janvier 2018 Cette semaine: on revisite un interview du décembre passé avec Angela Davis, le dernier épisode du podcast Sandy&Nora, l'histoire de la Rome antique, et plus.
4 January 2019 biweekly round-up Assortiment bref de trucs intéressants — 4 janvier 2019 Toutes les deux semaines, les vendredis, je publie une courte liste de quelques articles/blogues/vidéos YouTube/livres/musique/jeux que j’ai trouvés intéressants.
4 January 2019 biweekly round-up 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.
3 January 2018 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.
2 March 2017 creative writing Taking Up Space: Tara McGowan-Ross speaks about "Girth" imagine a girl, then imagine something not a girl, but girlish, substantial, globular "girth” When Tara and I meet to talk about her book, on the first of March, 2017, it’s
16 June 2013 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
6 June 2013 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
13 May 2013 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
9 May 2013 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
17 April 2013 undergraduate essays The Woman of Experience The Woman of Experience An Examination of Woman's Heroism in North and South and “Goblin Market” Victorian women writers Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) bore some interesting similarities throughout their literary
5 December 2012 Dubliners Pussy Poldy and Randy Molly Pussy Poldy and Randy Molly: Androgyny as Elixir against Paralysis and Self Hatred in James Joyce's Ulysses Informed by the heritage of fin de siècle literature, James Joyce places his Dublin epic on
25 October 2012 Dubliners Gnomon Using the meanings of “gnomon” as a tool in deciphering the themes in James Joyce's “Araby” Using the multivalent word gnomon, this essay will decipher the rich, significant language in Joyce’s short
