Oh hey. It’s been over a year since I wrote anything here. I’m not going to make any excuses or apologies for being away. 2021 was a tough year, even though some good things happened to me, professionally. I would like to write in here more often. But I’ve realized that making promises about any sort of metric (reading X books per year or writing Y posts per month, or writing Z words of fun writing per day) is just.…

The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg's debut set in the same world as their Birdverse stories, continues a tradition of stories filled with compassion.…

Oh hey, four months. Huh. Lockdown has really fucked up our collective sense of time, hasn’t it? The summer is almost over but I never really got a chance to enjoy it, to luxuriate in it. I’m still here, still reading, still gardening, and — luckily — still employed. Other than that, things have been kind of a blur. We’ve settled into a comfortable, if somewhat humdrum, routine. Ontario may be in “Stage 3”, but Mr. BooksandTea and I still…

Not a whole lot has changed in the last month now that we're in lockdown from COVID-19. We're still at home, and it looks like we'll be staying that way for the conceivable future. …

I'm staying home right now because of COVID-19. Here's what I'm reading/watchingac/doing to keep myself busy.…

2019 was a strange year for me, but I still managed to read some good books. Here's a quick look at some of my favourites.…

Augur Magazine just launched a Kickstarter to fund 2 more years of issues. See what makes them tick and why they're important to Canada's literary scene.…

It's 2020 and I'm back. Here's a quick look at what I got up to in 2019.…