Exploring genre blends
Catherine Coles Coles Notes It seems with every passing year there are more novels that take a sledgehammer to genre conventions. Well, these “genre blends” are helping literature evolve and,…
Opinion
The real buzz about bees
Laurie Snider Notes from the Nest A bee’s brain is approximately the size of a sesame seed. What it lacks for in size, it more than makes up for in…
Giving blood nothing to fear
Canadian Blood Services hosts a mobile donation clinic every two months in Napanee. For the last decade or so, this scribe has promoted them through preview articles, urging others to…
Staff picks June roundup
Catherine Coles Coles Notes The staff of the County of L&A Libraries are avid readers and always eager to share their favourite books. Here we bring you a list of some of the…
Keep Ottawa out of L&A’s healthcare
When it comes to health care, local is always best. A health unit overseen by people who live and work in the area means doctors and medical professionals get to…
Characters you’ll love
Catherine Coles Coles Notes In last week’s column, I wrote about characters on the edge; books with fictional people who are complex, often unsympathetic, and downright unhinged. This week, I’ll…
Let’s keep 911 for emergencies, not venting
A rather disturbing and quite frankly pathetic trend reared its ugly head last week when reports of people calling 911 dispatch to complain about receiving an early morning Amber Alert…
Appreciating a character driven story
Catherine Coles Coles Notes A character-driven reader is someone who reads in order to get into the head of an interesting character. This is different from those who read for…
And to think that I saw it on Alfred Street
Laurie Snider Notes from the Nest When I was a child, one of my favourite stories my mom would read to my siblings and I before bed, was the Dr…
Roundabout funding a welcome sight
Delighted to hear that funding is in place for that problematic Deseronto Road crossroad. “Often mistaken as a four-way stop rather than just a two-way” – how has this mistake…