Living Archive
Popular discussions
- Comments should be thoughtful, not abusive (9)
- Proposed building called inappropriate for neighbourhood (7)
- Building’s entry system swiftly repaired (3)
- Electric vehicles will shuttle bus drivers to and from routes (3)
- Meters pilfered, damaged beyond repair (3)
- Respiratory illness season is proving routine, MD says (2)
- Games Centre to receive major improvements (2)
- Hoofed animals may come under management protocols (1)
May 22, 2020
-
The various worlds of Anthony Horowitz (Bookends) Some writers are versatile and have a great many arrows in their literary quivers. Anthony Horowitz is one of this type.
-
Henna Pet Of The Week
May 15, 2020
-
Crisis-Time Performing Calla Kinglit (on stage) was Wednesday evening’s artist for the Not Close But Personal Concert Series at the Yukon Arts Centre.
-
Coming of age in a dysfunctional world (Bookends) Eden Robinson has the most delightful laugh.
-
Dill Pet Of The Week
May 8, 2020
-
Logi Pet Of The Week
May 1, 2020
-
Pelly Pet Of The Week
-
Stories about finding a way to fit in (Bookend) Lots of books for the very young have messages in them, or are intended to impart some sort of lesson.
April 24, 2020
-
Adventures in Neverland, 50 years later (Bookends) Peter Pan, thanks to Walt Disney, is an iconic story about a boy who didn’t want to grow up, and Neverland is the place where he is at home and enabled to stay young.
April 17, 2020
-
Presenting two shades of noir detection (Bookends) I decided to read some noir private eye fiction after getting interested in the TV mini-series Briarpatch, based loosely on Ross Thomas’s novel of the same name, which I read decades ago.
-
Winston Pet Of The Week
April 9, 2020
-
Seasonal detours make life interesting (Uffish Thoughts) It sort of rained a bit last Sunday afternoon; sodden flakes of snow that became tinier and lighter until they were mostly wet blotches.
-
Ellery Queen sort of meets Sherlock Holmes (Bookends) The history of A Study in Terror is interesting in that it started out as a Sherlock Holmes mystery movie, in which Holmes tracks down Jack the Ripper.
-
Magnus Pet Of The Week
April 3, 2020
-
A therapist conducts a search for a killer (Bookends) We meet Danielle Rycroft in the midst of a confidential therapist’s worst nightmare.
-
Dojo and Haze Pet Of The Week
March 27, 2020
-
Some viruses are stranger than others (Bookends) Our world is pretty much consumed by COVID-19 news, to the extent that you could almost re-title the CBC as the COVID Broadcasting Concern.
-
Migo Pet Of The Week
March 20, 2020
-
In search of the real killer (Bookends) Cecil Younger seems to have taken a hiatus from his job as a private eye as this book begins.
-
Arrow Pet Of The Week