THE REVIEW

MID-SUMMER


Jim, Gemma and Bob joined me Wednesday for a short meeting. Jason was housebound with his kids while his wife was away on business.

Gemma asked us to read and comment on a personal article of hers that she had re-written at the request of “Chicken Soup For The Soul”. The article is about her family immigrating to Canada and coming to love hockey. She was a radiology technician required to be on duty when games were played in Montreal, but she would sit in the hospital corridor knitting and let her young son use her reserved seat to watch the games. The article had been accepted for the Chicken Soup book “Oh, Canada” but they had asked for some changes to eliminate repetition. Congratulations to Gemma!

An interview of Margaret by the Quesnel Observer appears in their paper today, Friday, August 4th. You can find this online. In it she mentions the Ram’s Head Writers’ Group. That was nice to read.

I then read Margaret’s next chapter in “Coffin And Dye” which was titled “Arthur”. In it, Coffin has some boozy adventures and takes credit for finding the dog, Arthur. And Tootsie’s mother, Trisha, admits to having amorous intentions towards Coffin. Donny merely staggered across the hall to his own flat and passed out.

Since only Jim had heard the re-written first chapter of my new book, “Nigel Wingate Is Dead”, I read that again as well as the second chapter which tells how Nigel met Deirdre in the mid 1960s, and tells of her abusive boyfriend and that Nigel gave her the money to take her child and go to her mother at Watch Lake to escape. That is where the child drowns. Jim said I was keeping up the suspense.

Jim read the 4th chapter in the second book about the Coventry ghosts, and this is where the kitten, Sara dies and meets Leanne in ghostdom, who wants her to stay with her in her haunt at the coffee shop. They are both happy to have found a ghostly friend.

Next Meeting will be Wednesday, August 17th at 7:00 p.m. at my place. Hope to see you then.

Lisa