Author Archives: Pearl

I genrally am consuming 20-30 books in parallel. In this snapshot I present current top of pile reads, with a menu pairing of recent meals. Where and When Am I? In the 2300s, mostly a city on Mercury, on Saturn and Jupiter’s moons and transit between in: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit, 2012) Menu: […]

I have apparently been doing this pesbo blog for 20 years now. Some have tried to give it cachet and called in the Pesbo Journal. Take prestige if you need it. And I have been doing book reviews in various places for 15 years. Oddly the League of Canadian poets seems to have deleted their […]

The ziplock of summer fruit is emptied. I did 3 readings and an author’s day. I sent 2 submissions, and 3 of 4 reviews that I have on tap. I repaired a few book bindings, read a whack of things, located 2/3 mislaid books. I’m averaging a title read every 5 days, some 16 pages, […]

Emily Austin is delightful and has a new novel coming out. I’m going all completist on her. Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austin (Brick, 2024) is fabulous. And now shortlisting for the Lampman Award as it should. Maybe you have to be born into Christian fundamentalism and be out the other side to find this […]