On Twitter I’d mentioned that my kitten was making it difficult to write as her little head was resting on my laptop. In the tradition of the Internet, I received a response to the effect of “pics or it didn’t happen”.

It happened:

And by “write” I mean post pictures of my cat on G+. Serious business.

I found this review from May 2010 in my Drafts folder. It was whole and complete, but for some reason or another it remained unpublished.

It’s a great book, so I thought I’d post it as is. Better late than never, right?

As mentioned earlier, our book club pick for May was The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi.

Satrapi is an Iranian living in Paris, and Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel, originally published in French in two parts (as Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return), and is now available in a single volume.

Persepolis begins with her childhood in Tehran, and carries her story through the Islamic Revolution, and to her university days in Vienna. It’s a tale beautifully told with stirring images and humour.

I’d read a few pages the night before, and with six minutes left on the washing machine, I thought I’d read a few more while I waited for it to finish. Suddenly I realized I’d finished the book and it was well after one in the morning. Oops. Continue reading »

The latest issue of Witches & Pagans, # 23, summer 2011, contains my review of Where Do Demons Live?, by Frater U.: D.:

Witches & Pagans is an alternative spirituality magazine with a focus on nature based religions, especially on Wicca and Paganism.

The theme of this issue is “Law & Chaos”, and contains a great interview with Pagan police officer Kerr Cuhulain, as well as an article and interview with Patrick McCollum (pictured on the cover), a Pagan chaplain and activist for the rights of prison inmates to practice their faith. On the chaos side, there’s an interview with Peter Carroll, Jaq D Hawkins, and Andrieh Vitimus.

It’s a great issue, if you’re interested, you can subscribe here.