Tramping
In New Zealand, any hike that doesn’t require staying overnight is called a walk. Even if you’re hiking for 8 hours over alpine scrub, it’s a walk. But an overnight hike – now that’s a tramp….
Help. Please.
Right now, the bane of my existence is choosing a song. What’s that, you say? What on earth is she talking about? Choosing a musical clip is the bane of her existence? She needs to get…
Toronto International Film Festival
The beginning of the school year also brings an annual buzz to T-Dot: For two and a half weeks, the cinematic world gets to focus on our fair city for the Toronto International Film Festival.
Like That Could Ever Happen…
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The eBook Format Wars
A lot can happen in one week. Seven days ago, I was madly researching eBook readers, gung ho over the prospect of quasi-unlimited digital storage, heaps of portable reading material, and so on and so forth. …
One Day Sales
One thing about New Zealand is that for a relatively large piece of land, they have a small population. Picture the UK minus Ireland, spread 4 million people around it, elongate it like a fish, and…
The Multifunctional eBook Reader
I must say, gadgets can be so cool. But I know I get sucked in really easily, which is why I can take an elephant’s age to make my decisions. By now I’ve heard things, asked…
Bittersweet Stories
In a nutshell: I hate them. I really, really hate them. When I was in middle school, Titanic came out. A classmate came in one day and raved about it: “Oh my God, I’ve seen it…
Characters | Heroes | Heroines | Jean AAR | Reading | Romance reading
Why I Read Romance Novels
I’ll be the first to admit that I have a propensity towards criticism and pessimism. Take romance novels, for example – I could go on for hours about the general Decline and Fall of the Romance…
Pedestrian Zones
I see in the Toronto Star that the city council has decided to create two pedestrian zones, the first two of their kind in the big T.O. Never mind that they’re miniscule; never mind that they’re…