Current mood:

tired

Five authors divided by three days equal one insane interviewer
I'm wiped!
I interviewed five fantastic authors in three days.

Joan Barfoot  "Exit Lines" Set in a retirement home it is funny, and poignant and spot on dealing with issues of aging the baby-boomers are about to run into. Great characters. A lot of fun. Familiar territory for anyone in the sandwich generation.

Mark Richardson "Zen and Now" is a spiritual sequel to the 1960's classic "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". A great first book from the editor of the Toronto Star's Wheels section. If you like the original, you'll enjoy the story behind it and meeting the real people behind the characters in the book, plus a new set of characters as Richardson takes the same ride across the American mid-west.

Nino Ricci "The Origin of the Species" is set in Montreal and the Galapagos Islands. Might be his best since "Lives of the Saints".

Patrick Lane "Red Dog Red Dog" is, at 69 years, his first novel. Lane is best known as a poet who has the added perk of being married to the writer Lorna Crozier. Amazing first novel..dark, dark, dark but amazing.

Irvine Welsh "Crime". This author of "Trainspotting" not to mention one of the actors in the movie along with that Ewan MacGregor chap...did he ever amount to anything? Irvine takes a Scottish detective who has just solved the brutal sex-slaying of a child and drops him in South Florida where he stumbles on what may be another pedophilia ring. GREAT READ!!!

And now I am back to my own writing!