I read The Handmaid's Tale in 1986, the book itself a new addition to my high school library. At the time I regarded it, much like 1984, a nice little escape into one world not my own. After all, thought my high school self, this will never happen, we know better now. Many years later … Continue reading “Texas is Gilead and Indiana is Gilead”
I began Chapter 13 of David Copperfield, setting the timer to 15 minutes on the Audible app, and started walking around the track overlooking the gym at the Downtown YMCA. The walk always starts my work out allowing the book to play and no worries about cars nearly mowing me down, just people walking or … Continue reading A Sweaty Story Time or Hearing David Copperfield While Working Out
I read a lot of body positive/fat positive blogs, and Twitter feeds. It's part of reclaiming my body from all the shit and labels layered over it, each word like an explosive device detonating the negative attached to the thinking connected with my body. Once, I looked at a classmate askance as she said, "I'm … Continue reading Music Monday: Body Love Part 1 & 2 By Mary Lambert
It happened. I watch Crave more than Netflix. Crave TV launched in 2016 to compete against Netflix. While their user face could use work, it doesn't have the countdown to the next episode of a series like its opponent, it does have something Netflix, at least in Canada does not have in their library. They … Continue reading Music Monday: Bad Things by Jace Everett
Decisions are all about the information presented and if you say a place has 'too many libraries,' consider it throwing down a gauntlet. In this case, picked up brilliantly by this librarian: “SASK HAS TOO MANY LIBRARIES” SAYS MLA. “SASK HAS TOO MANY MLAS” SAYS LIBRARIAN. #SKPOLI #SAVESKLIBRARIES #YQR #YXE
“With the internet, people are using E-readers — they’re not going to the library to buy a book; they’re getting it online. A lot of libraries that they belong to give them some free e-books as well, so I think that is the the future of libraries across North America,”-Don Morgan, Saskatchewan MLA Believe it or … Continue reading Unpacking the Dumb
This is fabulous! I looked at Bryan Scott's photos for years, and now Discover interviewed him about his work. Want to see my home city and province in all, and I mean all, its aspects? Check out Winnipeg Love Hate.
I worked for bookstores, the owners saying ‘good morning’ every day, their hard work front and centre, and expected also from us. Sometimes I feel the era of holding down a full-time job, even one that covered the basics with benefits, looks further and further like a quaint relic of the past.
It’s true what they say, a fish rots from the head down. I feel fortunate not to work for these guys and gals.
Miki Agrawal, co-founder and “She-EO” of menstrual underwear phenom Thinx, raised eyebrows when she stepped down from her role in the company in early March. Agrawal had long been infamous for her company’s boundary-pushing ads and her well-publicized hesitance to use the word “feminist.” Within days of Agrawal’s announcement, Racked published a gripping article examining corporate dysfunction and alleged sexism at Thinx, and Agrawal struck back with a lengthy post on Medium that detailed her “incredible ride” with the company. “I didn’t put HR practices in place because I was on the road speaking, doing press, brand partnerships, editing all of the creative and shouting from the rooftops about Thinx,” she wrote. Less than a week later, Agrawal was accused of sexual harassment by a former employee.
Such is the power of the corporate hit piece: Fueled by eyewitness accounts, scorned ex-employees, and juicy tidbits about a CEO’s bad behavior, a…
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Great post from Winnipeg Public Library on audiobooks, with some notable narrators like Jim Dale for good measure. Also good for gym use if you’re tired of the boom-shaka-lacka of dance beats. (Alright, I get tired from time to time. Richard Armitage’s voice? NEVER!)
There was a time when I believed that audiobooks were cheating – that books were to be read, not listened to. Well, I found out that I was wrong. And what brought me to this conclusion was motherhood – plain and simple. Very early on in motherhood I found out that I had little (read: no, zero, zilch) time to sit and read a book when my motherhood phases went like this:
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