Isle of Wonder

It started with being a dumping ground for my extraneous projects in Medieval Studies while I was in university, now it is whatever subject I am moved by regarding literature, history or language.

Monday, December 14, 2020

A thoroughly modern fable

With all the issues in the world and lack of trust in news media in view, I was having a conversation recently with my son and I told him a...

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Thoughts While Sitting at Home Bored.

In the early days of quarantine, I thought it might be fun to reread Camus' The Plague and compare the global pandemic to what the...

Monday, June 18, 2018

Fahrenheit 451

I noticed Fahrenheit 451 had been made into a tv movie and, as I was cruising by, I watched it for a few minutes. The story did not re...

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

On The Beach

Published in 1957, 'On the Beach' was one of the first novels to try to imagine and portray the aftermath of a global nuclear...

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The Red Witch: Southern Ontario, Canada; Heritage worker and Researcher. M.A. in Medieval Studies.

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