A picture of a few hundred words
Reading the This is Where I Leave You novel before watching the movie version made seeing the visual story a better experience.
Tag: BOOKS
Finely designed worldbuilding and shapeshifting
This novel’s strongest aspect is definitely its world, more specifically the shapeshifting magic and the mythology.
Journey to gold
This year’s winners, Blake Rayment and Hannah Ewing, tied for first-place and both received gold awards.
Creative Writing department’s annual anthology is out
The Douglas College Creative Writing Department has launched the 36th annual edition of Pearls, an anthology of student-written works from a variety of genres and a range of courses in the department.
The glory of grimdark fantasy
What its novels lack in moral messages and optimism, they usually more than compensate for with cynicism and gratuitous violence.
‘The Silmarillion’ is worth the challenge
The Silmarillion is a massively dense collection of epics and histories from the world of Middle-earth, which is a mythologized account of the prehistory of our own world.
An ambitious series with realistic, flawed characters
I was consistently surprised at how dark and brutal these books were, and they only became more so as the series went on.
Enjoy the story without the word count
I find these to be particularly useful for a series that I have already finished, as I get to enjoy the story and remember all the good—or dangerous, or frightening, or downright deadly—times along the way.
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ promotes unsafe practices and all kinds of abuse
Fifty Shades promotes unsafe practices, unhealthy relationships, and physical and sexual abuse.
Giving a voice to Japanese Canadian history
“This history […] can tell us […] how race and citizenship and nationhood have been constructed over time in Canada.”