Old open book with magic light and falling stars on wooden table
5 October 2014

When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs by Gordon Kirkland As a collection of hilarious newspaper columns by Canadian journalist, Gordon Kirkland, I expected When my mind wanders it brings back souvenirs to be a perfect pick up, put down kind of book suitable for, say, keeping in the bathroom or close at hand…

Old open book with magic light and falling stars on wooden table
17 June 2014

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon is a short sci-fi classic, written by American, Daniel Keyes, in 1959, with more food for thought than I have ever encountered between so few pages. Charlie Gordon is a mentally-disabled baker’s gofer, with friends in low places, who harbours a huge thirst for knowledge and no…