Directed and adapted for the screen by Sarah Polley, Away from Her is an award-winning Canadian film based on Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.”
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Books, Reviews
Stardust by Bruce Serafin
by Mark Traynor
From the opening passages of Bruce Serafin’s Stardust, one quickly becomes aware of being in the presence of a unique, intelligent mind.
Books, Reviews
Wreck Beach by Carellin Brooks
by Mark Traynor
Wreck Beach, Carellin Brooks tells us, is the best nudist beach in Canada and, in a rare moment of uncertainty, “possibly the world”.
Books, Reviews
SCALAWAGS: Rougues, Roustabouts, Wags & Scamps: Brazen Ne’er-Do-Wells Through the Ages by Jim Christy
by Adeline Huynh
The stories are portraits of colourful characters and are enhanced by Christy’s equally colourful writing style that virtually ignores the rules of syntax and word order.
Books, Reviews
The Girl with the Botticelli Face by W.D. Valgardson
by Adeline Huynh
Winner of the 1993 Ethel Wilson Prize, leading me to believe that the publications by BC authors in 1993 must have been sparse.
Movies, Reviews
Rum’s Reviews: 5 Intergenerational Flicks
by Ruminique Nannar
From Scent of a Woman to Harold and Maude.
Books, Reviews
The Lost Patrol: The Yukon Mounties’ Tragedy by Dick North
by Casey Milone
The lost patrol is the stranger than fiction story of inspector Francis Joseph Fitzgerald and his crew of equally unbelievable Mounties.
