October 2012

So Long, Something Fierce

We gathered, we talked. We cozied up on Cindy's couch. We sipped wine and sampled delicious food. Another great night at book club. I arrive hungry. No dinner for me on LOL nights. The food and drink is always so delectable, I make a monster meal...

Something Fierce…bittersweetly funny

Last day I wrote how Carmen Aguirre's mother upset me with her selfish refusal to leave her girls behind, where they would be safe with their father in Vancouver, dragging them instead to South America to become indoctrinated in the revolutionary movement. Of course she...

Feeling Funky about Fierce Mother…

Right from the start, Carmen Aguirre's memoir, Something Fierce, captures the reader's attention with its fascinating premise: a young  Chilean refugee leaves the safety of her Canadian homeland to travel back to Chile with her revolutionary mother and step father. Told in everyday language, blunt...