Tag: book-review
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The Mystery of Bestsellers
As part of my Certificate in Creative Writing at U of T, I’ve been trying to take a course on how to write bestsellers, but it’s been cancelled a couple of times in a row (surely not for lack of student interest?). I’m signing up again for a spring session, but the instructor is ominously…
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Ellen Godfrey and Rebecca Godfrey: Mothers, Daughters, and Crime Writing
I was intending to write on Alice Munro’s “Vandals” (redux) this morning, but it’s the first teaching day of the term and so my mind has turned, inevitably, to final proofreading of course outlines. At the moment I have a creative writing course, Introduction to Creative Nonfiction, taught entirely online. Contemplating how to make this…
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My 2024 Top Canadian Mystery Reads and 2025 TBR Pile
A range of new and older works, given the scope of this project. This blog post will be a work in progress, so this is a start, and a placeholder. I read dozens of mysteries last year. And many of them were purchased with a grant from Sisters in Crime back in 2023–thank you, thank…
