Driving home I saw these lights and had to take a picture.
Tree Lights @ BC Nurses’ Union
October 2025 Reads
Abeni’s Song
I’ve loved everything I’ve read in P. Djèlí Clark’s Dead Djinn Universe, and Ring Shout was a singular reading experience. Abeni’s Song was like a classic fairy tale with some Studio Ghibli whimsy thrown in. Enjoyable, though not a page-turner.
The City of Stardust
The story was interesting; I wanted to know the ending. For me, …
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Saturday Morning Cartoons!
There is at least one thing uniting a large swath of Baby Boomers, Gen X’ers, and Millennials: Saturday morning cartoons! Our go-to cartoons might be different, but we all fondly remember that glorious morning of animated goodness that only came once a week.
When I saw the Rio Theatre’s ad for “The Saturday Morning All-You-Can Cereal Cartoon Party” it was …
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Back to Reading
Reading used to be my go-to activity when I had nothing else to do. With social media, on-demand TV, and the internet it’s harder to have nothing to do. I fell out of the habit of reading. Last year I made an effort to get back into regular reading.
It’s been wonderful. Science fiction/fantasy is much richer than I remember …
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Cool duck!
I got this little guy at the 2025 Pinoy Festival last month. It was going to be a gift. I clipped it to my key holder so it wouldn’t get lost and, well, I don’t want to give it away! Every time I see it I smile.
Stanley Park Loop and South False Creek Ride
I thought I was going to get rained on, but I got lucky.
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Set in London, it tells the tale of the twelve gods of Mount Olympus living in a rundown flat as their powers wane.
— Gods Behaving Badly, Wikipedia
Gods Behaving Badly was a tasty, fast snack. I read it in a single sitting and it hit the spot. No new story takes for me (though it might have had in …
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She Came to Me
Composer Steven Lauddem is creatively blocked and unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. At the behest of his wife, Patricia, formerly his therapist, he sets out in search of inspiration and finds much more than he bargained for.
— She Came to Me Website
A romantic dramedy with messy characters. These people have troubles. At first …
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What Moves the Dead
What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon), is a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic horror, The Fall of the House of Usher. There’s an added character or two, an explanation for Roderick and Madeline’s demise, and a few genuinely creepy scenes involving hares and mushrooms.
The beginning was the fun, the middle a bit slow, …
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Nettle & Bone
Nettle & Bone is a 2022 fantasy novel by Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher. The novel has been described as a dark fairy tale.
Wikipedia
Nettle & Bone was a delightful read. Though the material and themes are darkish to dark it has an underlying humour and optimism that I found greatly satisfying. If I tried to describe the …
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