Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. A well-written, emotional play about Elizabeth I wanting to be entertained (read: distracted) by Shakespeare's acting troupe on the eve of the Earl of Essex's beheading.I read it because I'm working at Bard this summer and it's ...
Excellent! A great blend of fiction and history, re-imagined through the eyes of one of my very favourite story-tellers.Reincarnation (?) meets Jung's collective unconscious. With Leonardo (da Vinci, not diCaprio - it's not THAT book), Oscar Wilde, William & Henry James. Art and religion clash an...
Headhunter is not a book to read if you want the word "settled" to enter your vocabulary any time in the near future. It is perhaps as unsettling a book as I am willing to read, and yet, I've read it three or four times now. It keeps drawing me back, for all its horror.Kurtz has escaped from Heart o...
This book plodded along stealth-like, with an intriguing although unreliable narrator: the 11-yr-old Hooker, whose mute confusion and sadness were so very painful to bear witness to but who was also in some ways inaccessible for much of this very short novel. It was hard to know where the story was ...
Timothy Findley is one of those authors who has always simmered away on the backburner for me. He seems overshadowed by his other contemporaries, i.e. the Canadian pantheon: Atwood, Munroe, Richler, Davies, Laurence. Because he was much else - an actor, a critic, I think also a broadcaster? - his w...
Originally reviewed here.Why I Read It: Required reading for my Religious Themes in Literature class. Margaret Laurence is considered a classic Canadian author, but I unfortunately had an unpleasant experience with her work prior to having to read The Diviners. Back in grade 12 I had to read Laurenc...
This book hurt my head and my heart and turned my stomach - I guess that`s an appropriate response to a tale of the evil that lurks in the heart of men (and women, but here mostly men). Headhunter is an inventive and possibly even brilliant re-telling of Heart of Darkness, set in Toronto at the Par...
I love this - Noah Noyes is 'orrible and what about that cross dressing Lucifer?I bet someone somewhere has a whole lot to say on this take of the biblical story; I give it the full-blown five stars but will not recommend it on as I need to be able to sleep at night without the fundies a-coming for ...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. A very different experience from the movie - tho' not by any means an inferior one. Indeed, some of the scenes that one remembers from the movie as seeming intensely tho' mysteriously significant, are disappointingly lessened. But the compensation comes in our inc...
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