Hispter Word of the Week – Hariolate

I hope you managed to do more eating than groaking in the last week.  Here's a word that will help your inner hipster set trends.  Or avoid them. HARIOLATE v. -i. prophesy; tell fortunes. hariolation, n. I wish I could hariolate.  It would be easier to choose bands that won't sell out and become mainstream. Your turn!  Leave your sentences in the comment section! Image source  Source: Luciferous Logole...

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Hipster Word of the Week – Groak

I promise your inner hipster won't floccify this week's word.  I'm sure many of you are actually guilty of it! GROAK v. - to watch people silently while they're eating, hoping they will ask you to join them No matter how much Marion groaks, I'm not sharing my organic strawberries with her! Your turn!  Leave your sentences in the comment section! Image source Source: Luciferous Logolep...

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Hipster Word of the Week – Floccify

Where are you estivating this year?  Here is a new word to impress your new friends. FLOCCIFY v. - to consider worthless I do not care for your opinions, Gigi. In fact, I floccify them. Your turn!  Leave your sentences in the comment section! Source: Luciferous Logolep...

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Tea, scones and Devonshire cream with a little of ATUA on the side

Source Today I'm leaving for London for a well-deserved one month vacation.  ATUA should still be running as normal with interviews, reviews and Hipster words of the week posted on schedule.  I will try to plan Toolbox posts and maybe a few special UK posts but I may not have the time.  I wish you all are enjoying a wonderful summer!...

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Author Interview Series – Jim Burke + Giveaway!

Today I have the great pleasure of interviewing Jim Burke, a playwright from Manchester UK now living in Montreal.  I took Mr. Burke's Creative writing class at Dawson last winter and it was a real pleasure.  I am honored to host such an accomplished writer on ATUA.  *** When did you start writing?  Was becoming a writer a dream you had since childhood or did it come later on? I suppose my first serious attempts at writing were lyrics for a punk band I got involved in when I was about 19. Mercifully, I don’t remember...

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Review Wednesday – The Yard – Alex Grecian

A few months after the ghastly murders of Jack the Ripper, the madman is still at large and London's trust in its police force is at an all-time low.  Inspector Day, a constable from Devon, had just joined the Yard's Murder squad only to be put in charge of leading the investigation of the violent murder of one of his peers.  With no time to question his ability to solve such a horrible murder, Day has no choice but to take the plunge. The Yard is Grecian's first novel yet it contains none of the frequent errors you see in first...

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Hipster Word of the Week – Estivate

Did you manage to teach your inner hipster last week's devenustate?  Not a very useful word, I guess, but that's the point of having a hispster vocabulary, isn't it? ESTIVATE v. - to spend the summer Stephanie is so lucky, she's going to estivate in the UK. Your turn!  Leave your sentences in the comment section! Image source Source: Luciferous Logolep...

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Dreamers Interview Series – Christine Guenette – Giveaway winner and answers

Today I'm very happy to announce the giveway winner for massotherapist and yoga instructor Christine Guenette's interview.   But first, let's see the answers to your questions.  A big thank you to Christine for the time she invested in this project! Catherine asked:   What is the most precious thing yoga brought you? After all, many people do yoga simply to follow trends, but yoga is much more for you, so I wonder. What did you see in yoga? Or what did yoga show you, that was so special?   Yoga has brought me to a wonderful...

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Review Wednesday – Dan Brown's Inferno

Inferno by Dan Brown, the fourth volume of the Robert Langdon series, opens with an amnesic Robert who needs to flee the hospital to avoid getting killed by a hired gun.  Helped by Dr Sienna Brooks, he barely escapes only to find himself in the midst of a crisis: a plague that will annihilate one third of the population of the world is to be released in 24h and the only way to stop it is to solve the puzzle left by a madman.  Will Robert’s knowledge of Dante’s Inferno serve him well enough to prevent this disaster?  I’ve...

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Hipster Word of the Week – Devenustate

We're back again this week to help your inner hispter's knowledge of obscure words coruscate. DEVENUSTATE v. - to deprive of beauty Beauty is so mainstream.  I believe art ought to be devenustated. Your turn!  Leave your sentences in the comment section! Source: Luciferous Logolep...

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