impudent strumpet

I have a memory of being a preschooler looking at a picture book that included cartoonish/anthropomorphicish mice, and noticing the girl mic...

Years ago, I bought one of those solar crank emergency radios. The instructions said that the battery will charge in sunlight, and if it isn...

1. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 2. Radicalized by Cory Doctorow 3. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox,...

1. Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto by Shawn Micallef 2. The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

Sometimes, people are willing to pay a small amount of money for a book, but not retail price.   A place you can buy a book for a small amou...

Toronto Star : You don’t run away or give up on something just because it’s hard. Instead, you lean into the challenge. You’re adept at sol...

I have this song stuck in my head that I remember from a childhood TV show, and I can find no evidence of it on the internet. The lyrics: Bi...

1. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison 2. Framed in Death by J.D. Robb

 Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway

If you're going to grow some potted plants or a garden, you need soil.   Not dirt, soil.   It is possible that the soil in your yard mig...

Two or more TV shows (or other works of fiction) are set in the same location at the same time, with different, unaffiliated characters solv...

If you're on a plane that crashes and you have to evacuate, you're supposed to leave your belongings behind. And every time there is...

I tend to learn about books/TV series/other creative works because I've seen it around, people are talking about it, it seems vaguely in...

 The Wife App by Carolyn Mackler

1. Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic by Nora Loreto 2. Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb

 1. Passions in Death by J.D. Robb

In 2010, Canada Post introduced a tool called the Canada Post Comparison Shopper, which let you compare prices and shipping costs from a hug...

1. Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 2 2. Random in Death by J.D. Robb

I value buying and using quality products, so when I'm shopping for a new product category, I regularly search sources that provide obje...