Puffin’s Canadian Children’s Classics
read some local children’s fiction; mostly bad
Tag: Cancer
The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo
poetry by a then dying, now dead, young poet
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
I’ve been ignoring my depressive relapse by studying AIDS
Eulogy for Josephine Bunyan
the eulogy I read at my grandmother’s funeral in 2014
Nearly 30 by Joe Woodhouse
bienvenido a la triumphofthenow.com poetry season 2018
A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing was a surprise critical smash in the heady days of 2013/14, atContinue Reading
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Sticking with middle-brow Scottish literature, I followed Irvine Welsh’s Filth with another dark, scary, psychological story about a disturbed ScottishContinue Reading
Love’s Work by Gillian Rose
A few weeks ago, I was recommended this short memoir by a customer in the bar I work in. Obnoxiously,Continue Reading
The Father by Sharon Olds
I read Sharon Olds’ lauded Stag’s Leap last Summer and though I loved the idea and the poetry of her verseContinue Reading
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
I really really liked this. That’s what I’m going to open with, because everything of any wit or interest IContinue Reading
Ostrich by Matt Greene
The eighth book I’ve finished n 2014, and finally an absolute FUCKING BELTER. Ostrich by Matt Greene is a beautiful,Continue Reading
See The Old Lady Decently by B. S. Johnson
B. S. Johnson’s final novel, the first part of the never-completed Matrix Trilogy, has been out of print for decades.Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 