Author Archives: ubalstecha

[  Mood: Cool ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ] Aya is a fifteen year-old girl who is desperate to be famous. It is several years after the mind-rain, when Tally Youngblood freed the world from "Prettytime". Each city appears to have … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Distorted ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]So the city got hit with what could be termed as a perfect storm. * The bus drivers went on strike last night stopping our transit system cold. * A winter storm hit … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Happy ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ] Brit Paul West is hired by a French firn to develop an authentic English tea house chain. He moves to Paris and finds himself almost immediately struggling to fit in to to … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Sleepy ][ Currently: Trying to read to my son, who likes to randomly flip pages,  ]Another port that I am expanding. Microserfs is a wonderful book from Michael Copeland, the wunderkind of Can Lit. It explores the lives a … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Amused ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]As I mentioned in our podcast taping last night, Canadian politics has suddenly gotten very exciting. We have a parliamentary system here in Canada, which means that the party who gets the most … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Amused ]So the Americans have just finished Thanksgiving and, along with us Canucks, are heading to Christmas. So we all might have a turkey or two in our future. So imagine my glee when I found this site. Now … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Sleepy ][ Currently: Breastfeeding My Son ]Still porting While I enjoyed this book, I found it diffficult to follow at times, with Steinbeck’s dialogue not flowing in a natural way. Cathy is an evil woman though, and having a villain … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Sleepy ][ Currently: Breastfeeding My Son ]Still porting I first fell in love with this story when I saw the movie when I was much, much younger. I indentified so strongly with Olan. (I don’t know what that says about … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Cool ][  Currently: Watching My husband knock down some baby furniture ]Again, I am porting some old posts from another blog I used to have. So first off, let me admit this, I am a huge fan of this long … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Sleepy ]I am porting some old posts from a blog I used to have to this one. As you can see from the book cover, I have chosen to use the French title of the book so not to … Continue reading →