Sylvia McNicoll

This series on where and what we’re reading was started as as kind of personal PR for books. I think in this fast paced world of technology where you press 1 for English and 2 for French and never get anyone who really wants to speak to you (although the conversation…

We never stop talking unless it’s to read.  Sometimes we discuss our books.  Gisela Sherman’s reading one on world war II as research for the novel she’s working on. I’m reading a mystery set in the Kootenays, one of my favourite parts of the…

Often in between writing scenes, I will walk the dog but in the summer Mortie gets too hot and must pause for a treat and water break.  I now carry a book on the hike and here I am conveniently doing research for my latest project:  Death on Track.  The main character…

By no sheer coincidence, I needed emergency dental attention on the same day as Margaret Buffie’s dog.I broke a tooth but her literary inspiration needed some teeth removed.  I’m sure he read in the dental chair also ’cause it is so comfy, with a…

This was intended as a Father’s Day read.  Craig McNicoll read The Gaggle Sisters River Tour , by Chris Jackson, to his baby girl, Violet on the deck.  But then his wife continued out loud while we were waiting for dessert. Eireann drew a crowd, all the…

Karleen Bradford, author of A Desperate Road to Freedom, the Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson, Scholastic Canada is my guest reader/blogger today. I’ll have to read that one. The Dear Canada books come with Unpleasant trick thick super where to…