Author Archives: Risa

Eifelheim Ancient Aliens

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Risa

Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn (not to be confused with retired United States Army Lieutenant General and convicted felon Michael Flynn) On the surface, this would seem like a book that’s right up my alley. An alien ship crash-lands in 14th century … Continue reading →

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Better Late Than Never – 2019 un fait accompli

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Risa

2019 was not a stellar year for reading. It was, however, a good year for learning about reading. Or, should I say, learning about not reading. Here are a few of my 2019 insights if I really want to read … Continue reading →

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Procrastination Nation

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Risa

My commitment to 2020 is to be more diligent with both reading and writing about reading. I have procrastinated the crap out of 2019, and in the interest of getting a fresh start, here is a quick wrap on the … Continue reading →

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It’s a strange strange strange strange strange world

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Risa

Strange Planet, by Nathan W Pyle After months and months of reading nothing but email (it’s a work story, I won’t bore you), I finally found my way back to books. In this case, via a gateway book called Strange … Continue reading →

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Great Bear Chalet – Monday

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Risa

Not much to share today, except for some cool pictures. Gallery one: before our flight we did a short walk along the aptly-named Big Cedar Tree trail. It’s like Cathedral Forest but without the other people. Gallery Two: Our flight … Continue reading →

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Great Bear Chalet – Sunday

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Risa

Today was a beautiful day, shaping up to be the only clear, sunny day we would have. With that in mind, we picked the M. Gurr hike as our activity of the day, which made Host Jeff happy because he … Continue reading →

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Great Bear Chalet – Saturday

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Risa

Today was overcast and threatening rain so we decided to do a river drift. I had thought this would amount to us being plunked into the river in some kind of dingy to languish as we drifted for a few … Continue reading →

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Great Bear Chalet – Friday

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Risa

We’ve both had a long summer of long work days, lots of work travel, and I’ve sacrificed a couple of long weekends for work, so Jeff and I decided to create a 4-day long weekend and trek to the BC … Continue reading →

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Sir Paul McCartney

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Risa

I love music, especially songs I can sing very loudly to (in my car. by myself.) and I am good at recognizing songs I’ve heard before. I am very bad, however, at remembering song names and differently bad at knowing … Continue reading →

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Brightness, Here and Now

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Risa

A Brightness Long Ago, by Guy Gavriel Kay I’m not going to try to write about Guy Gavriel Kay’s new book, because his writing is SO beautiful and it intimidates me to the point of incapacity to even think about … Continue reading →

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