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The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards
A step-by-step survival guide for a waking nightmare
Tags: 2024 books, addiction, Adultery, Alberta books, Alberta Views, Atria Books, Book review, book reviews, books, calgary, cheating, childcare, dating apps, Denver, drug use, financial deception, first dates, healing, honesty, husband, In-laws, jessica waite, Karl Ove Knausgard, Knausgard, Megan Clark, Memoir, mental health, mother, Mothering, My Struggle, Norway, premature death, relationships, Sean Waite, The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards, Therapy, trauma, widow, widowhood
January 2, 2025
What Kind of Daughter?
“Unfold the limbs that bore witness”
Tags: 2024 books, abortion, Alberta, Alberta books, Alberta Views, America, Book review, book reviews, books, catherine owen, daughter, death, family, family caregiving, feminism, Frontenac House, grandmother, grief, illness, liberated, menopause, mother, Mother daughter, periods, Pink Blooms, poetry, Prose, rape, Rayanne Haines, self diagnosis, sexuality, triplets, What Kind of Daughter?, woman, womb, Yoko Ono
Briefly Noted January/February 2025
Wild Roses are Worth It and We Speak Through the Mountain
Tags: book reviews, Kevin Van Tighem, Premee Mohamed, we Speak Through the Mountain, Wild Roses are Worth It
We Are Already Ghosts
“For all of his faults, he was constant: he was as loyal as could be.”
Tags: 2024 books, Alberta, Alberta books, Alberta Views, Alex Rettie, Book review, book reviews, books, Central Alberta, Chekhov, cribbage, Cross generation, english professor, fiction, Field Notes, Field Notes on Listening, interior novel, Kit Dobson, literary scholarship, Malled, Non fiction, On Golden Pond, privilage, storytelling, university of calgary, University of calgary press, upper middle class, We Are Already Ghosts
January 1, 2025
Masking Fear
COVID hasn’t forgotten us
Tags: air travel, airplanes, Alberta, Alberta government, alberta politics, Alberta Unbound, Alberta Views, anxiety, canada, column, comfort, Covid, COVID 19, democracy, edmonton, Facebook, flu season, government, harassment, health, healthcare, high-risk, immunocompromised, independent senator, infectious disease, Mask, Masking, Masking Fear, memento mori, N95, Old Strathcona Farmers Market, Old Strathcona Market, on second thought, Paula Simons, politiacal columnist, public figure, senate, Senator, social media, talisman, Virus
Dare to Bird
Exploring the Joy and Healing Power of Birds
Tags: 2024 books, activism, Alberta, Alberta books, Alberta Views, BC, biology, BIPOC, birders, Birds, Birds of Western North America, Blacck conservationist, Book review, book reviews, books, coffee table book, conservationist, Dare to Bird, Debut book, environmental impact, Exploring the joy and healing power of birds, J Drew Lanham, Jenna Butler, lived experience, Melissa Hafting, Memoir, mixed-race, North America, photography, politics, prejudicce, resilience, Richmond BC, Rocky Mountain Books, science, scientific knowledge, social commentary, Western North America, wildlife, woman
Half-Light
Westbound on a Hot Planet
Tags: abbess, Academic, Alberta, Alberta books, Alberta Views, Amy Kaler, apocalypse, birthday, Book review, book reviews, books, bridges, climate change, colonial past, Covid, COVID 19, economics, end times, essay, extreme weather, financial value, floods, ghost town, going west, Half-Light, Hildegard of Bingen, hurricanes, isolation, Jutta von Sponheim, Memoir, mines, natural history, Retlaw, Roberta Laurie, settler west, short essays, starvation, theology, Travel writing, university of alberta, University of Alberta Press, West, westbound on a hot planet, western provinces, wildfires
The UCP Want More Control
Entrenching provincial power.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta government, alberta politics, Alberta Sovereignty, Alberta Views, anti-democratic, authoritarianism, Bill 18, Cabinet, calgary, Calgary Sun, canada, danielle smith, democracy, edmonton, executive power, federal government, freedom, government, Jeremy Appel, legislative session, municipal governments, partisanship, politics, re-election, Rick Bell, sovereignty act, Take Back Alberta, The UCP want more Control, UCP, United Canada Act
Political Activist Ethnography
Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle
Tags: 2024 books, A.J. Withers, accessibility, accessible language, accountability, activism, activist work, Agnieszka Doll, Alberta, Alberta books, Alberta Views, anti-poverty, Aotearoa, Athabasca University Press, Aziz Choudry, BIPOC, Book review, book reviews, books, critical thinking, disability justice, Economic and Social Research Aotearoa, feminist, intellectual disability, Joe Kadi, Kevin Walby, Laura Bisaillon, marginalized groups, New Zealand, OCAP, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, PAE, Political Activist Ethnography, postsecondary education, progressive, radical left, reciprocity, reflexivity, research, social change, social justicce, Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle, Sue Bradford, utility
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