Today, I’m host author C.C. Everill and his latest release Dancing Before the Crash, a non-fiction LGBTQ+ title. Be sure to read my review. And don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway. ****
Today, I’m host author C.C. Everill and his latest release Dancing Before the Crash, a non-fiction LGBTQ+ title. Be sure to read my review. And don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway. ****
My teenaged cousin who babysat me introduced me to the Bay City Rollers when I was a lil kid. Like any other child of the 70s, I had BCR plastered all over my walls. My favourite member, along with my cousin’s, was Ian Mitchell. With the recent passing of the group’s lead singer Les McKeown, …
It’s been a while since I reviewed a rock ‘n’ roll title, and I do note on the main page of my website that I love to blog about romance, reading, writing, and rock ‘n’ roll. So for today, I am giving you my thoughts on Hard to Handle by Steve Gorman, the former drummer …
Today, I’m reviewing the non-fiction title Confess: The Autobiography by Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford, a heavy metal, LGBT, rock-n-roll memoir.
Today, author Philip Gambone is guesting. He’s here to talk about his latest release As Far as I Can Tell, an LGBT wartime memoir and Lamda Literary Award nominated. ****
Today, I’m reviewing the non-fiction title The Shoe Boy: A Trapline Memoir by Anishinaabe author Duncan McCue. ****
Normally, I never take book review requests. Unfortunately, my writing schedule is too busy, although I wish I could review each title I’m kindly asked to consider. But when Joel Miller emailed me about reading and reviewing his latest non-fiction title aptly called Memoir of a Roadie, after explaining his book contained stories about the …
Today, I’m reviewing Anything for a Hit by Dorothy Carvello, an autobiography about an A&R rep in the music industry who gives the inner-scoop about its many dealings and secrets.
Today, I’m reviewing a non-fiction, music industry memoir by Vicky Hamilton, titled Appetite for Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale. If you love rock ‘n’ roll and grew up in the 80s, you’ll enjoy this book and this review.
Today, I’m reviewing writer and actor Kerry Ashton’s non-fiction memoir Saint Unshamed: A Gay Mormon’s Life–Healing from the Shame of Religion, Rape, Conversion Therapy & Cancer.
I did a previous post about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada, recommending books I read, along with providing the web site link where further information can be obtained. Since that post, I located more books on the MMIW that I haven’t had a chance to read, but plan on adding to my …
Funny, most Canadians simply say RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). At least everyone I know does. But to the rest of planet earth, people say “Mounties.” When I read Grass Dance by Kathryn Imbriani, her book made me want to read and research about the Northwest Mounted Police, as the RCMP was known way back …
Where I live, there are places told to me where the Ojibway and Dakota battled. There is even two towns that carry the names–one is a narrows and the other is a lookout spot. One elder even mentioned a battle that took place where a bridge is now–it’s where she wanted to offer tobacco, she …
I grew up on what is known as the Voyageurs’ Highway, the lakes and rivers men used to transport furs from long ago to back east. As a child, and unbeknownst to me of its history, the replica fort where my cousins, sisters, brother, and I used to play was simply a neat place to …
I did a two-part post on AIM (American Indian Movement), and you can read about the movement itself and its members. AIM, according to the late founder Dennis Banks, was “formed to address the oppression of the native people living in the twin cities.” In Canada, Indigenous people held their share of protests for aboriginal …
In Part One and Part Two, the books I listed were completed by scholars and historians. For this post, I’m concentrating on those of an autobiographical/biographical/memoir nature. These are wonderful account from those who lived long ago, or are about those who lived long ago.
I have so many books, I’m going to have to break this post into three, instead of the original two that I’d previously promised in Part One. The third part will be the autobiographical/biographical/memoir accounts from long ago. For this post, you’ll find studies and texts written by historians and researchers. Enjoy.
Some spell it Ojibwe. For others it’s Ojibwa. But I grew up learning to spell it Ojibway. All are correct. There’s nothing I love more than immersing myself in a good book about the history, culture, and people of the Anishinaabe Nation. My love of reading prompted me to do a post about some great …
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