The story follows both Pierre L’Errant (also known as Owl) and his return to Otter Lake, as well as Tiffany Hunter’s trials and tribulations as a teen growing up. His depictions of the community and its people creates a vivid picture and a mind statement of “Hey, I think I know that place.” By centring the story on a fictional reserve somewhere in southern Ontario, however, Taylor includes a sense of longing for the past, a desire to be in the present, and a need to engage in the future for all the characters. In the vein of gothic novels, Taylor’s work holds an ominous foreboding presence always just out of reach for the characters and reader. The Night Wanderer It is an Indigenization of the gothic novel with power and flair of its own – it is Taylor-Gothic. Yet, this novel is not simply a copy or homage to Bram Stoker. Aimed at a youth reader, Drew Hayden Taylor’s gothic novel, The Night Wanderer, is truly a marvellous read for anyone interested in a new Dracula’esque story.
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Shortly after the book was finished, Bonhoeffer was executed in Nazi Germany. It is more powerful because I know it was written while Bonhoeffer was in prison. I think this is my third or fourth time through the book. Reading this book slowly is a blessing because there is so much to think about in it. I have been reading “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer for my devotional time in the morning. And with social media and viral videos, she can control that appearance. By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.īecause the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. 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Songs from the Well: A Memoir of Love and Grief, from award-winning poet and author Adam Byrn Tritt, is the remarkable chronicle of his love for his wife, Lee his sudden and heartbreaking loss of her to brain cancer and his struggle to find a way back to life. |