You can find the entire playlist on YouTube, right here. This is the second instalment of my Bollywood playlist (read part 1 here). The first post focused on modern dance numbers from recent movies. This post is about the classics of modern Bollywood item numbers. According to one French-Canadian white woman. You get what you […]
Shake your Bolly: my Masala playlist
You can go straight to Youtube and watch the whole playlist here. I recently discovered Bollywood and my goodness, did it rock my world. The extent to which the Indian film industry is ignored by critiques and distributors in North America is nothing short of scandalous. But when I tried to drum-up some interest for […]
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What I read in 2017
Last year I started writing down a list of the books I read and who recommended them to me. At the beginning of January, I purchased a Kobo e-book. It was the best purchase I made in years. I still think that there is a charisma to reading ink on paper but I’ll have more […]
Protected: Patreon exclusive podcast: The deal with teenagers Part 2
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Short Story: November Snow (3-minute read)
Evening tiptoes around the mall like a thief. Hallways turn quiet as the thinning flow of workers and commuters mark the hours with the reliability of a Swiss watch. Nestled in the basement of an office tower, the shopping centre opens like an underground cave. Artificial lighting shining through crystal chandeliers belie the darkness descending […]
Weightless
In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway wrote about his early struggle to identify the concrete actions or sensations that caused an emotion. The art of writing lies not only in describing external events but in noticing the emotions stirred by such events and identifying precisely what caused the emotion. Skilled writers can bring their readers […]
About Moi
Véronique Bergeron, by Herself Véronique started writing and illustrating stories in elementary school when she discovered her father’s typewriter. Elementary school was not kind to this quiet introspective child: she became the bane of her teachers’ existence by learning to read before it was permitted. While everyone was learning vowels, Véronique was reading books by […]