Photo by La Carmina, http://lacarmina.com/ La Carmina is an award-winning alternative culture journalist, blogger and TV host. She runs the leading blog about Goth travel, fashion and culture (LaCarmina.com/blog), which was featured in The New York Times and Washington Post. La Carmina is the author of four books including The Little Book of Satanism: A... Continue Reading →
Summer is here and the lock down is over, finally. If you are anything like me, then the thought of getting outdoors and hopefully away somewhere, has turned to a craving. Whether it’s heading out to camp, tenting in a provincial park or simply slipping on some comfortable footwear to take a long walk in nature,... Continue Reading →
Elle Andra-Warner is a bestselling author, journalist and photographer. Her award-winning articles have appeared in major publications around the world, and her columns have been in print since 1994. She has presented journalism workshops throughout Canada, been a guest lecturer for on-line journalism, and past co-editor of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society’s annual journal. ... Continue Reading →
Karen Connelly is the author of 10 books of bestselling non-fiction, fiction and poetry. She has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her poetry, the Governor General’s Award for her non-fiction and Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for New Fiction for her first novel, The Lizard Cage. Connelly presents her latest collection of poetry, Come... Continue Reading →
Question 1: What essential tool is required to bring a Union Pacific freight train, with a potential weight of 1.2 million pounds to an unplanned and unexplained, grinding halt? Answer: a single red Sharpie of course. Question 2: How do you convince the Under-Secretary of Illustration and Design at the Smithsonian Institute that you are... Continue Reading →
A relative of mine once made the rather unfortunate comment that you really don’t need to travel the world, because all you have to do is go to Singapore where they have all the souvenirs you could possibly ever need. In other words, that bottle of 25 year old Laphroaig you nabbed in Scotland recently;... Continue Reading →
It’s not very often that I give a bad review for a book, except if it’s total rubbish like Fifty Shades or anything by Charles Dickens (see earlier review October 9, 2009). A few years ago, during an election campaign in Australia, one politician said of another politician: “Any man who claims to have a... Continue Reading →
This is the perfect travel book for reading at airports and on planes. It’s super light in content, with no long lists of names to remember or complex plots to do battle with when your brain is on the verge of jetlag-induced mush. It is pure fluff. I rather enjoyed it: mostly because it’s set... Continue Reading →
Well, one good think about tidying up the shelves here at the library, apart from being able to actually find things again, is stumbling upon something really interesting, or being re-united with a book you’d forgotten about. When Holy Cow first came out in 2002 it was so popular it had a holds list a... Continue Reading →
Think: rainy Sunday afternoon, over-stuffed armchair, nice bottle of red, box of Swiss chocolates and, most importantly, a rather large box of tissues. Then, snuggle up and prepare to be totally charmed by C. S. Richardson’s debut novel. I loved this book. The characters feel like an old sweater and jeans: so comfortable, so familiar,... Continue Reading →
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