Nov 13, 2024 | My Stories, Reviews
I was intrigued by the way Rogers spun and wove images of leaving, attaching them to place, people, relationships, to states of being, and even to the person she once was.
Rogers and I have had similar yet different journeys. After living in Hong Kong and mainland China for more than two decades she left those new homes and returned to Canada. I always wonder what motivates others, like me, to live in different countries. I also wonder what really motivated me to return to Canada, three decades (France, England, Australia) after I first left.
Apr 26, 2024 | Reviews
Garden Inventories is about so much more than green stuff. I learned about the history of parts of southern Ontario and Pakistan, about apples and roses and mulberry trees, as well as about Mughal and Persian civilisations. It made me think about my different lands and the nostalgia I carry for each of them.
Nov 23, 2023 | Reviews
Colleen Brown’s first book If You Lay Down in a Field, She Will Find You There arrived in my letter box just after my own mother died. With my grieving so fresh, I wasn’t sure I could read the memoir about the author’s mother, who was murdered in 1974. However, the beautifully written vignettes and the focus on life, not death, lured me in.
