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May.20.2013
Today we fly to Houston and begin our vacation. There's nothing like the sense of escape that comes with a vacation, even though we're not really escaping anything horrible (though it sure is nice not to work for a week!) Through the magic of livejournal and scheduled postings, I've got Short...
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May.19.2013
Today my husband and I went to two family barbeques. We even stopped at Tim Hortons on the way, which pretty much means this day was the most Canadian day we've ever had, potentially excluding that time I rode a moose. (It was a stuffed moose. The ride wasn't particularly exciting.)
While there...
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May.18.2013
Husband and I officially kicked off our holiday by going out this morning, and I bought new work clothes! Yay? No. Boo. But hey, it needed to be done, and I've got a whiplash turnaround when I get back form New Orleans, so I need more than a few days of work-appropriate clothes since I won't...
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May.17.2013
VACATION!
As of 9:20p, I was out the door and off work for a week. Houston, New Orleans, fun, friends, literature... Oh, how I can't wait.
I worked my butt off today, prepping and doing the things that needed doing before I left, so I didn't have a lot of time to peruse a tale. Instead, on the...
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May.16.2013
I found out today that yesterday's efforts on the CBC #CanadaWrites challenge paid off: I've got one tweet on each of the two lists; one for lawmakers, one for lawbreakers. They are these two:
He didn't recognize me now, with the scars he'd left on me. Was funny, since now I didn't recognize me...
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May.15.2013
Getting into a new character's head is always fun. Today, Canada Writes had a challenge: Lawmakers/Lawbreakers, wherein you were to tweet, with 140 characters (minus the #canadawrites), credible sleuths or memorable villains.
So I did. I actually won a free book (it was a drawing, not a prize) and...
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May.14.2013
I recently finished watching a television show on Netflix, "Being Erica." If you've never watched it, it's a mix of all my favourite things. First, there's a constant theme of do-over. Erica, at the bottom moment of her life, meets Dr. Tom. But he's no regular therapist - he can send her back...
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May.13.2013
I am blessed to know some amazing parents. I know parents for whom being a parent was unexpected and is a sole endeavor that hasn't defined or redefined the core of who they are, but has shown me how core strengths can carry over into so many areas of life. I know parents who have chosen to...
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May.12.2013
I know, I know. I'm all about Saints and Sinners Literary Festival these days. Well, looking forward to that awesome event is pretty much the best part of my writing life. I adore the event, and oh my lord, I've been telling you this for weeks and weeks.
Um. So. How was your day? Everything's...
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May.11.2013
Vacation. Vacation. Vacation. Vacation.
It's sort of a relentless voice in my head right now. It's really hard when you're roughly (and by "roughly" I mean "pretty much exactly") one week from your vacation time. It's not like it's far away, but in your head, the remaining days just sort of...
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May.10.2013
It's pouring down right now, and I'm a bit damp from the walk from the bus stop to my house. I love the rain, and water in general (such a bath fellow rather than a shower fellow), and most of my favourite places are somehow near water. I also like water in a fictional sense - oceans and rivers...
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May.09.2013
I got a haircut today at the barber shop in my new mall. I sat down, said that I just wanted all my hair buzzed off. The hairdresser pointed out I'd let my hair get quite a bit long for someone who wanted the blade set to one.
"I've been busy," I admitted. "But it's nicer when it's short." Then...
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May.08.2013
The husband and I went to go see Iron Man 3 this evening. You need to watch through the credits for the wee teaser thereafter, by the way. It was great. I loved it. I'd love to chat about it but I don't want to risk spoiling anything for anyone. So. Go see. Then hit me up for a chat.
I had a...
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May.07.2013
Today was another long day with the long commute home, and so I allowed myself another revisit to the audiobook version of Fool for Love. I like listening to novels when I'm on my way to work (or, actually, nonfiction, too), but on my way home my attention fails more and I find short fiction...
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May.06.2013
It's calf season!
Okay, I might mean something different here than you would think. I'm talking about guys wearing shorts, and thereby baring their calves. Hello, legs! Jokingly, I made this observation on Twitter and Facebook as well, and it triggered a comment from Dale Chase of how - for a...
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Burgoine’s characters are as sharp as the points on their teeth and their dialogue snaps like breaking spines.”
—Out in Print Queer Book Reviews
About Nathan
‘Nathan Burgoine grew up a reader and studied literature in university while making a living as a bookseller—a job he still does, and still loves. His first published short story was “Heart” in the collection Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction. Since then, he has...
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Nathan’s Favorite Books
It Had To Be You (Timothy James Beck), Straight Lies (Rob Byrnes), A Coventry Christmas (Becky Cochrane), Murder in the Rue Ursulines (Greg Herren), Practical...