The book opens with a scene that has become all too familiar. A man, with a crazed look and mad thoughts dancing around in his head, enters a school and appears to be aiming at Sadie, a seven year old child who is standing at her locker with her lucky koala bear eraser. He is actually tackled and ta...
I found this book to be more confusing than anything else. The story starts inside the head of school shooter, bent on taking out his girlfriend who works at the school. I assume this is to show how George's heroic actions during the crisis endeared him to the community, but there is little else abo...
This was a quick read about what felt like a really familiar group of characters. Which is good! But also I feel like nothing really grabbed me about this book because it felt so familiar. Um, but maybe if you don't run with queer people in Toronto you might not feel that way. Also I think I am not ...
I was immediately drawn into this novel by Whittall's creative narration written as a stream of conciousness by a young gay girl in Montreal in the 90's. Her passive attitude provides an extremely interesting narrator as she is more curious than adventurous and a keen observer of those who take pas...