In order to make purchasing Five Rivers’ books easier for you, I’ve set up a series of Buy Direct links in the sidebar to the right. These links will take you directly to Chapters in Canada, and Barnes & Noble in the U.S., thereby allowing you the opportunity of not only purchasing directly from Five Rivers, but also from two of your favourite booksellers using your membership reward cards if you have them. If you…
The economy isn’t wonderful, but your living space is threatening explosion, little say your temper because you’re falling over your kids’ toys, or your kids are threatening revolt because there’s nowhere they can retreat with friends. Worse, you’re expecting an addition to your numbers, or need that extra bathroom to solve morning revolts. So you start scouting out homes with that extra bedroom and bathroom, upgrading from three bedrooms to four, and two baths instead…
You’ve read all about my writing and publishing adventures here on the blog, but you don’t often read about the other half of Five Rivers, the glass and mirror division of our wee business. Gary, my husband and best friend of 35 years, has been a glazier most of his adult life. His favourite line is: I don’t do windows. What Gary does do is some of the finest, fussiest glass and mirror architectural applications…
As I write I’m working on converting all of Five Rivers’ books for Indigo’s new Shortcovers feature, ‘a new digital destination where you can discover and experience your next great read on any mobile device,’ according to press information. Unlike other eBook retailers and eBook readers like Amazon’s Kindle, Shortcovers is an application you download to a variety of readers, even smart phones like iPhone and Blackberry. You can choose to preview a limited portion…
To be honest I wasn’t expecting much from this film; and that’s exactly what I received. Not much. Unfortunately I found the film in want of a story. It was allegedly to be an exploration of the Lost Generation, Aboriginal children who had been taken off to mission schools (sound like Canada?) where they suffered degradation, assimilation and abuse. What Australia delivered was an overly-long almost farce, almost Australian Western, almost war film, almost serious…