Profile Editor. Writer. 9-5er. Lord of the Dance. Blurredline.com Apodis Publishing Fusion Fragment cterrill(at)blurredline.com Buy Goodbye, Darwin Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format Buy Blurred Line Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format The Short Stuff "Learning Magic From Mint" - published May 2007 in Atomjack "Between Eternities" - published October 2005 at Speculative.ca "Smoke and Mirrors" - published June 2005 in Byzarium Submissions Log Total Subs: 25 Acceptances: 3 Rejections: 17 Withdrawals: 3 Subs Out: 2 Quality Blogs Scalzi's Whatever Dave's Blogography Bookslut The Struggling Writer SF Signal the0phrastus Paperback Writer Scribe's Writing Desk Nathan Bransford Lyons Literary LLC The World in the Satin Bag Book In The Oven The Word Perhaps We Learned Something... Words, etc. Archives March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 Et Cetera Cavan @ Last.fm Cavan @ LibraryThing Feeds Atom Feed RSS Feed	Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - Natasha Another worthy read to mention today. It only took me the day to read this book of short stories (it clocks in at 147 pages), but you wouldn't exactly want to call David Bezmozgis's Natasha slight. The stories all revolve around a common character who, like the author, emigrated to Toronto from Latvia as a child in 1980. The stories, obviously, look at the life of Canadian Jewish immigrants - some of them hopeful, some uncomfortable, some longing for the past while others long for the future. Overall, the strongest stories here are the title story, "Natasha", which revolves around the now sixteen year old main character and his experiences with the daughter of his uncle's new wife, and "An Animal to the Memory", a story about schoolyard insults and Jewish heritage. This one was recommended to me by my Canadian Lit professor last year (not surprisingly, one of the courses I took with him was a seminar in Canadian Jewish literature), and it definitely measures up to the glowing terms in which he spoke of it. Cavan blogged at 8:51 PM | 0 comments	Progress Zilch! 0/0 Listening A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed" My Music Reading Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney My Library Watching Black Book: B Sweet and Lowdown: C Breakfast on Pluto: B Wishlist Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart