The hype around Stratford all summer has been Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s hit production of West Side Story. This is a show I’m sure you’re all familiar with, for all intense purposes the show is a musical version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This time the rivals are the Sharks and Jets two gangs and [...]
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14 May
Theatrical Thursday – The Importance of Being Earnest
The first show that I saw at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival was Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. For any theatre fan this would be a show you’ve probably seen it several time and probably involved with the show in someway. But it’s a show I absolutely adore. It’s almost sad how well I [...]
6 May
The Man Who Forgot How to Read – Review
The Man Who Forgot How to Read
by Howard Engel
genre: Non-Fiction
I read this book as part of the CBC Book Club and the day the book came I decided to read it for the 24 Hour Read-a-Thon. I really wanted to get as much out of this book as possible but I had difficulty enjoying it. [...]
5 May
The Cellist of Sarajevo – Review
The Cellist of Sarajevo
by: Steven Galloway
Genre: Historical Fiction
This is one of the few books I’ve already read for The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge. I’ve read several reviews out there about Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo and couldn’t resist reading it any longer. This is a wonderful book and was very glad I picked it [...]
1 May
The Walking Dead – Review
The Walking Dead Book One
by Robert Kirkman
genre: graphic novel
I don’t have much experience when it comes to zombies but that’s about to change. I’ve already read the first book in The Walking Dead series and must say I really enjoyed it. And to expand my zombie knowledge I have Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by [...]
29 Apr
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Review
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by: Philip K. Dick
genre: sci-fi
*read on my Sony Reader
Not that long ago I finished reading my first novel on my Sony Reader. I wanted to read something that suited such a device and while I was looking around for the perfect book I thought something Science Fiction, finally deciding Do [...]
27 Apr
An Abundance of Katherines – Review
An Abundance of Katherines
by: John Green
Genre: YA
Winner of the Printz Award
John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines is a book about Colin Singleton and his friend Hassan. Colin only dates women named Katherine and it must be spelled that way and must be the exact name, he’s already had 19 girlfriends with that name. After being [...]
18 Apr
Read-a-Thon Update 1
So far so good! Today started rather slowly, I couldn’t get much reading done at work (well, at least not as much as I wanted to) because it ended up being a busier day than expected. But I got about 50 pages of La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith read. Once I [...]
16 Apr
Theatrical Thursday – The Reader (with review)
At the close of 2008 I watched many of the films that had been nominated for an academy award. Not only those nominated for best picture but also some of the smaller awards like best actor and actress awards. One of the movies was of course The Reader staring Kate Winslet.
I must say that I [...]
14 Apr
How to Solve Your People Problems – Review
How to Solve Your People Problems: Dealing with Your Difficult Relationships
by: Dr. Alan Godwin
Genre: Non-Fiction/Self Help
How to Solve Your People Problems is one of those books I was asked to review before it was available in book stores. It took me some time to actually get around to reading this one because it’s not really [...]
