Damien Cox is no stranger to the Toronto Maple Leafs. He is entering his fifth decade as a journalist, with the bulk of those years spent covering the Leafs. With REVIVAL, this becomes his third book solely focused on the team with a few others covering hockey on the whole. REVIVAL reunites Cox with Gord…
Amazon has gathered a few talented horror writers together for their “creature feature” collection with six authors penning six stories for the spooky season. I’ll be reading and reviewing all six this month – up first, Joe Hill’s THE PRAM. Hill’s story follows Willy and Marianne as they relocate to rural Maine as the COVID-19…
The Night House follows teen Richard Elauved as he’s sent to the remote town of Ballantyne to live with his Aunt and Uncle following the tragic deaths of his parents. Carrying the hurt caused by his parents’ untimely demise, Richard assumes the role of bully terrifying his peers and classmates at school. One afternoon, Richard…
In A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN, co-authors Damien Cox and Andrew Podnieks examine the shortened 2021 season – specifically the North Division – as the NHL attempted to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic. When this book initially hit shelves in April of 2022, I dismissed it as potentially being a thinly-researched cash-grab. Are we really that…
In the acknowledgements of the novel, author Chuck Wendig writes about how boring, bland and uninteresting apples are. That was until a trip to a local farmers market unlocked his taste for the many lesser-known varieties. If you’ve followed Chuck on any of his social media platforms the last few years, you’re aware of his…
MORT follows, well, Mort as he signs on to be an apprentice for Death. Yeah, that Death. You may know him as the Grim Reaper? As an apprentice, Mort must learn the ways of bringing about the end of one’s life and ushering them into the void when their time comes. But is Death really…
In Right, Down + Circle, author Cole Nowicki unearths the circumstances and happenstance that ultimately led to the creation of what Electronic Playground dubbed “..maybe the perfect video game” in 1999 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Born and raised in Athabasca, Alberta, Cole found his way into skateboarding at a young age through both his…
A shadowy group of monarchists have summoned a dragon into Discworld’s greatest city, Ankh-Morpork, with the goal of orchestrating the dragon’s slaying by a man who they could install as a puppet king. What they didn’t count on were both the dragon’s own lofty ambitions and the unlikely actions of The City Watch, the incompetent…
Author John Connolly is very much tied to my love of reading. In 2008, I had reached out on a pro wrestling message board (odd, I know) looking for any reading recommendations. A fellow poster responded with Connolly’s critically acclaimed 2006 novel, THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS. I absolutely loved it. Since then, I have…
Last year, a deluge of books hit the market celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ’72 Summit Series. If you reside in Canada, but have been living under a rock with your fingers in your ears, you may not know anything about this historic event, so I’ll give you a coles notes. The Summit Series…
Taking place over a brutally hot summer in 1974, SMALL MERCIES follows the desegregation of schools in Southie (South Boston) and the simmering frustration and deep-seated racism held by both the parents and the children who are affected. The novel’s main protagonist, single-mother Mary Pat Fennessy, grows worried after her daughter Jules did not return…
Trent, Rita and their son Milo arrive at their new home located in their new suspiciously unfinished subdivision and while getting settled, it isn’t long before they uncover shoddy workmanship throughout their property. Driven to fix it himself, Trent tackles the work head on. However, as the work becomes increasingly complicated, it takes a toll on…
Following his critically acclaimed memoir about his years as a comic, BORN STANDING UP, Steve Martin released a second memoir containing stories about his time in the movie business, NUMBER ONE IS WALKING. Rather than taking the same path as his first autobiography, Martin enlisted the help of cartoonist Harry Bliss to produce a sort…
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