• Review: How To Be a Normal Person by T. J. Klune

    The short blurb bit: Gus isn’t normal and he knows it. He runs a video store with three customers and has a pet ferret named Harry S. Truman. Casey is an asexual, stoner, hipster who might be famous (If you’re not Gus and actually know about pop culture). What could possibly go wrong if these…

  • Review: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

    The short blurb bit: Years ago I read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and became enamored with Lisa See’s writing. The Island of Sea Women is a beautiful novel based on the lives of women living on Jeju Island in South Korea. The descriptive bit: Women feature strongly in this novel. In particular, the friendship between…

  • Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee

    The short blurb bit: The first thing I want to write is that “The Fever King” is going straight onto my list of best books of 2019. Yes, I’m that confident. I read a lot of books, always have, and when I read one that has an original concept … presented in a way that…

  • Review: Brush Strokes by E.S. Karlquist

    Oh, this book! I read a lot of LGBTQ fiction and this has settled itself next to my heart. I may have to build it a little house there so it can stay. This is Karlquist’s first book and I have to say, I will definitely pick up anything else she writes! This story is…

  • Review: Best Man by Chris Delyani

    When I read the description for this book, I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. Let me start with the basics. Frank is recovering… sort of… from his divorce from husband, Ethan. He and Ethan were married for years and then Ethan cheated on him. As if that wasn’t enough, Frank came home and…

  • Interview: Things I’ve Learned From Matt Cohen

    This is a repost of an interview I posted a few years back. Sadly, the original post vanished! So here it is again. -=-=-=- For several years, I was fortunate enough to interview Matt Cohen at Creation’s Salute to Supernatural Convention in Vancouver.  It’s not always easy to get an interview with past cast members but…

  • Review: Play It Again by Aiden Wayne

    There’s so much in this book, I’m not sure I even know where to start! Alright… let’s start with the characters. The story opens with Dovid and Rachel filming their usual YouTube content. Their channel is called “Don’t Look Now”…why? Because Dovid is blind. As a result of a rare form of cancer, he had…

  • Some More Reads in 2019

    Some More Reads in 2019

    Murder At White Oak by Marko Realmonte When I got to the end of this book, my eyes are all blurry with tears! I won’t spoil the end…because you should really read it. This is so many things that are fantastic to read… a romance, a comical romp at a boy’s school, a mystery, friendship…devotion…and…

  • Review: The Perfect Shine by J.K. Hogan

    The Perfect Shine is about a lot of things, but I think what stood out most for me, is that it’s about figuring out who you are, and I will always read the hell out of that kind of story This book follows Jackson Meade and his best friend Blake Renault. From the day they…

  • Review: The Cost of Living by Emilie Lucadamo

    Beck wakes up naked, in a rain storm, hung over and sick… only it’s much more complicated than that and his life is about to change completely. Adam Lehexe finds Adam and drags him back to his bookstore, he sees him through the worst of his illness, then has to explain what’s happened. The problem…

  • Review: Frost by Isabelle Adler

    Okay, let’s get this out-of-the-way – this is a novella! And my one complaint about it is that I can’t believe it’s not a novel! Sometimes, I can read an entire book and not feel any great connection with the characters. That is not true of this short work by Isabelle Adler. This story is set…

  • Place: Kamloops, BC