Hey, this is so cool! While exploring author, Will Ferguson's website (check it out: willferguson.ca) I saw this very sexy and intriguing UK cover for his novel, Spanish Fly. Published by Penguin Canada as Spanish Fly, apparently the UK version was renamed by Random House. I...
How are you doing, readers, with the LOL's latest novel? As I'm making my way through Will Ferguson's Spanish Fly, here are some notable parts: Chapter 33 I love the way Ferguson describes the art of the con in musical terms, likening the take to the jazz...
What exactly is Spanish Fly? In the words of the author of the best selling Canadian novel of the same name: "Spanish Fly is a beetle and it's used to incite mating among livestock and what it generally does is it irritates the urinary tract, which...
Clever, very clever. Shameful, but entertaining. That's how I would describe the never-ending stream of cons being played out by Virgil, Miss Rose, and our lead guy, Jack, in Will Ferguson's fabulous novel, Spanish Fly. Described with such vivid and colourful detail and including such entertaining...
One of the fascinating aspects of our current book, Spanish Fly, is the multitude of cons. Every chapter is loaded with examples of the types of tricks used by the fast-talking swindlers of the day and those cons are entirely entertaining, especially when relayed by...
I love Fridays, although sometimes I wonder why. I'm not sure having my kids lounge about or demand rides to the mall, movie theater, and friends' houses is actually a break, and with a husband who is a shift worker, it's not like Saturday and...
A third of the way into Will Ferguson's Spanish Fly, I'm really beginning to enjoy this book but I'll be honest...
What do Will Ferguson and Las Vegas have in common? Well, I don't know, really. Mr. Ferguson might be a big time gambler (he's certainly up on his clever crime schemes of the depression-era) or maybe he enjoys a good stiff drink, readily available in any...
Open was Kathy's (on the right) book choice but because Kathy's house is without windows (and floors and some doors), Cindy W (left) kindly offered up her spectacular home to hold this month's LOL meeting. Of course, it was under the condition Kathy provide the...
I would like to take this opportunity to send out my heartfelt thanks on this Free-For-All-Friday to the lovely Ladies On Literature for their generous donation to Project Literacy Kelowna in memory of my Mom, Cleone Gosset. Mom passed away on January 1st, 2012 at...