Or, Micro-Reviews, non-fiction edition. Whenever I go home for the holidays, there are invariably three things waiting for me in my room: the mail that has gathered in the interim, all the Globe and Mail Saturday cryptic crosswords accumulated in my absence (carefully torn out and folded by my father),…
Yes, as promised, a review of the musical sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, which sees former star soprano Christine Daae travelling with her husband and child to Coney Island, NYC, to stage a comeback at a mysterious sideshow called Phantasma. (gasp! Could it be….?) But,…
(Thanks to all who’ve expressed their sympathies! Your kind wishes mean a lot to me.) A while back, I wrote this blog entry about a certain love-triangle pattern often encountered in fiction, and I talked a bit about why I’m frustrated by the place it leaves for the women ostensibly…
No post this week — some family stuff going on. Have a good one, and see you all next Sunday.