Tag Archives: fiction

2611, 2018

Flight over Convenience Store

debs/ November 26, 2018

One of my favourite times of the year is when UofT colleges have their annual book sale.
First-Order Confession: One of my least-guilty guilty pleasures is buying old books (–I wish I’d use the library more!). Second-Order Confession: One of my more-guilty guilty pleasures is bookshelf-virtue-signalling.

To prevent the regression of my better guilty pleasures to its lesser form, I tell myself upon purchasing such books that I must read them all.  I am maybe 20% successful; and even less if you include the books from last year’s book sale that I haven’t started.

This blog post will be a reflection on the dominant themes in four books of such books.

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1712, 2017

The Tale of Three Trees

debs/ December 17, 2017

The Tale of Three Trees was passed down to me orally, as folktales are, while roaming through the streets of GuangZhou last year.  The storyteller loved and cherished this tale from childhood.  The simplistic yet deep-reaching truth of the story had inspired her to write her own.

8 months laters, by the rarest of chances, that this book caught our eyes while we were visiting a flea market in Stockholm. We only saw it fitting to bring this story back to the storyteller, now a bride, as she goes forth to build a new home (and joint library collection) with her groom.

As this tale has and continues to travel with us wherever we go since that night in GuangZhou.
We hope this book, having traveled from Stockholm to Toronto, will find its resting place in Hong Kong.

… But not before adding a few words of our own 😉

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