February 14th 2012
Vancouver author Charlotte Gill wins B.C.’s national non-fiction book award
VANCOUVER — B.C. author Charlotte Gill won the 2012 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction on Monday for her memoir about tree planting Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe.
Gill was a tree planter for 17 years, first in Ontario, then in British Columbia; she estimates she has planted one million trees. Today, she teaches in the University of B.C.’s online creative writing program from her new home in Powell River, but she says she misses tree planting every day.
“All of my best friends were tree planters, my husband was a tree planter,” said Gill, who lived in Vancouver for 20 years. “There’s
Yesterday, another addition to Marvel Comics’ pantheon of heroes-turned actors hit the airwaves with a tantalizing trailer. The Amazing Spider-Man is actually the 4th movie starring the web-slinging hero, who was played by actor Tobey Maguire from 2002 to 2007. New British actor Andrew Garfield will don the red-and-blue as Peter Parker, with love interest Emma Stone playing Gwen Stacy, in the time before the fiery-red-haired Mary Jane. Although the absence of Maguire in the trailer is a bit jarring, fans may find that Andrew Garfield fits this younger, more teenage-angst-filled version of Marvel’s biggest hero better than Tobey, whom we’d seen grow and mature too convincingly during his five-year reign as the web-slinger to turn back the hands of time. Despi 