Author: caniceleung

  • Won’t somebody please say something about Chris Brown?!

    LIFE IS WITHOUT NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR CHRIS BROWN. — Canice Leung (@canice) February 13, 2012 Everyone’s read all the reasons why it’s wrong Chris Brown performed (and then won an award) at the Grammys. It doesn’t seem so difficult that you’d need someone to explain it to you, but if you’re in need of this…

  • 52 Titles: Jose Saramago’s “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ”

    Jose Saramago is one of my favourite authors. I like that he isn’t afraid to spend 1,000 words cataloguing every step of a character’s thought process — especially when that person is Jesus Christ. Nuance isn’t always considered when people talk about the Bible and its tenets, so it’s nice to read something that contextualizes…

  • 52 Titles: John Vaillant’s “The Tiger”

    I bought John Vaillant’s first book, The Golden Spruce, because it was on one of my reading lists in fourth year. Stupidly, I never read it for class (sorry, Bill!). Part of why I decided to read a book a week this year was to finally catch up on all those books I’d bought and…

  • My problem with the suburbs

    I spent the first 18 years of my life in the suburbs of Richmond Hill, Ont. It is an aesthetically homogeneous place, which I think is the source of its two biggest flaws: transit and safety. My boyfriend still, after five years, cannot identify my parents’ house while driving because every home on the street…

  • 52 Titles: Sara Marcus’ “Girls to the Front”

    I started going to hardcore shows when I was 15 or 16, probably getting out to one a week during my high school and university days. Ten years on, I’m lucky if I have time to make it to one or two in a year — that distance (and time) has given me space to…