The Killing Circle, by Andrew Pyper

Last night I woke up at 3:30 am, struck by sudden-onset insomnia. I had only gone to bed 3 hours before, and generally I sleep like the dead, so this was strange. But after a few minutes of groggy incomprehension, I realized I wasn’t going back to sleep any time soon. And in those eerie [...]

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KIRBC Toronto Chapter Meeting, Jan. 19/09!

On Monday night, 6 tough ladies trudged through the blistering cold to warm themselves by the fire of their literary loves. One new member (Tennile) joined the fold, and 9 new books had advocates even Canada Reads producers would envy.
I couldn’t help starting the meeting with this quotation I recently stumbled upon, that was all [...]

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One Yellow Rabbit’s “Sylvia Plath Must Not Die”

Last night at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts I went to see the Calgary-based theatre collective One Yellow Rabbit perform one of their latest shows “Sylvia Plath Must Not Die”. I was drawn to the piece simply because my graduate performance thesis project was about Sylvia Plath. It was lovely to have [...]

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