A perfect Sunday with...Kevin Hearne
Pumpkin blueberry pancakes, Calvin & Hobbes forever and ever, plus the best version of Sherlock Holmes!
Every week, a top writer, artist, actor or creator reveals how they’d fill their perfect Sunday, sharing their favourite comfort reads, movies, food… anything that would make their weekend great.
Today it's the turn of Kevin Hearne, author of Candle & Crow!
Kevin's perfect Sunday… brunch
Sausage patties and pumpkin blueberry pancakes with real Canadian maple syrup, plus a gallon of good black coffee. The pumpkin pancake mix is bizarrely found in a bookstore. If I can't get it, then I make a Dutch Baby with powdered sugar and blueberries. Blueberries are compulsory.
Kevin's perfect Sunday… read
Right now I'm enjoying Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano, a hilarious sort of thriller in which a suspense novelist is overheard talking about her book and is mistaken for a contract killer. Real crime is much different, she discovers, from the fictional sort she writes about.
Kevin's perfect Sunday… comic
Calvin & Hobbes! Forever and ever. How is this even a contest?
Kevin's perfect Sunday… movie
My new favourite comfort movie is Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer. Warm and hilarious exploration of what it means to be human. All you need is love.
Kevin's perfect Sunday... TV binge
Elementary! In my opinion, it's the best version of Sherlock Holmes out there.
Kevin's perfect Sunday… podcast
Oh gadzooks...I don't listen to podcasts. That means I'm a fossil, doesn't it?
Kevin's perfect Sunday… album
I have a playlist of the Indigo Girls that I often play on Sundays while I'm making the pancakes. I've seen them in concert thrice. They make me happy.
Kevin's perfect Sunday… treat
Heading to the Upper Canada Migratory Bird Sanctuary on the St. Lawrence River and catching a clear shot of a "lifer," a bird I haven't seen before in person.
Candle & Crow is out now from Penguin Random House.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles comes the final book in the “action-packed, enchantingly fun” (Booklist) Ink & Sigil series, as an ink-slinging wizard pursues the answer to a very personal mystery: Who cast a pair of curses on his head?
Al MacBharrais has a most unusual job: He’s a practitioner of ink-and-sigil magic, tasked with keeping order among the gods and monsters that dwell hidden in the human world. But there’s one supernatural mystery he’s never been able to solve: Years ago, someone cast twin curses on him that killed off his apprentices and drove away loved ones who heard him speak, leaving him bereft and isolated.
But he’s not quite alone: As Al works to solve this mystery, his friends draw him into their own eccentric dramas. Buck Foi the hobgoblin has been pondering his own legacy—and has a plan for a daring shenanigan that will make him the most celebrated hobgoblin of all. Nadia, goth queen and battle seer, is creating her own cult around a god who loves whisky and cheese.
And the Morrigan, a former Irish death goddess, has decided she wants not only to live as an ordinary woman but also to face the most perilous challenge of the mortal world: online dating.
Meanwhile, Al crosses paths with old friends and new—including some beloved Druids and their very good dogs—in his globe-trotting quest to solve the mystery of his curses. But he’s pulled in so many different directions by his colleagues, a suspicious detective, and the whims of destructive gods that Al begins to wonder: Will he ever find time to write his own happy ending?