Cold-Cocked: On Hockey

Editorial Reviews. Review. "Jackson's mix of the puck and the personal create a dense and Cold-Cocked: On Hockey - Kindle edition by Lorna Jackson.
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Enlarge Cover 0 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 0 ratings. On Hockey by Lorna Jackson reviews: Description Lorna Jackson's Cold-cocked: About the Author Lorna Jackson is all too familiar with the road. For 9 years she played country music, mostly solo, in beer parlours and lounges in Vancouver and small-town BC. She quit touring to study writing at the University of Victoria. Buy this book at: Welcome back, Hockey Season!

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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jul 27, Camden rated it really liked it Shelves: Goddamn, the emotional arc of this book nearly wrecked me. What I enjoyed about this book is how infinitely relatable I found it. I don't have a daughter. I'm not nearing menopause. I don't live on a farm. My sister is still alive. My father did not fight in a war and while he suffered mild memory problems at the end of his life, this was due to brain cancer.

But the way Lorna Jackson talks about hockey, the way she explains why she -- and, ostensibly, other women -- find it attractive, and the p Goddamn, the emotional arc of this book nearly wrecked me.

But the way Lorna Jackson talks about hockey, the way she explains why she -- and, ostensibly, other women -- find it attractive, and the players, is so exact to my own limited, demented worldview as a hockey fan. I don't give a flying fuck about statistics. I guess if the puck is moving, that's good thing? I couldn't even tell you for certain what position Ovechkin plays and he's supposedly one of my favorite players.

But my god could I talk all day about how his mom negotiated his contract, how he's a leader in the locker room, how he earned every single drunken moment with the Cup. I could talk all day about how I want him to lie on top of me like a weighted anxiety blanket, just fucking crushing me to death.

I could argue all day with friends about whether finding him attractive means I've hit rock bottom or ascended to a higher plane of existence. My attraction to hockey is not to the game; it's to the players.

Jackson talks about this and validates it. She is fluent in the mechanics of the game but more than that, she presents a hockey game that is filled with stories, with narrative: In this book, desire for the players is wrapped up in the game, but Jackson seems to tell us that it's okay if our desire is simply desire. And I think, too, in women's unending quest to prove herself, this book is a kind of comfort reading, despite its flaws.

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Did I chafe against her comments that women don't care about the violence of the sport, the war metaphors? Who is she to say I don't care about the violence of the sport? I can run with the boys who watch hockey for the fights! And then I remembered that when Becky first tried to get me into hockey, she showed me pictures of hockey players hugging mid-air, because that was what delighted me.

I remembered the solid two months Jasmine and I spent coming up with increasingly absurd ways Sidney Crosby might procure a child, because we so badly want for him to be in possession of a little baby girl. I remembered the entire AHL game Jasmine and I spent, bored and drunk, cruelly deprived of the player we'd bought tickets to see who had gotten called up that week, coming up with things we'd do with hockey players for a day: The violence and violent language puts me off of the game; I care about the human elements, the guys thanking their wives after games or putting their children in the Cup when they win it all.

I can't pretend to know anything about the game, because I don't. I can't prove myself in a world of men asking me to know enough to join the boy's club because I don't know enough and I never will and I don't want to. I want to watch Pride and Prejudice on a couch, covered in blankets, cuddling with Dylan Strome. Jackson says that's okay. This book was not without flaws, but as a thesis on the erotic female gaze in and fandom of hockey of which there are like Professor Kelly on the You Can't Do That podcast recommended this book and it took me awhile to read but I enjoyed it immensely.

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Feb 20, Keith rated it liked it Shelves: On Hockey is by Victoria author and creative writing professor, Lorna Jackson. I really enjoyed it, she takes a woman's pov to the game, mixes in the WW2 history of her father, a long love affair with the Canucks, complete disdain for Ron Mclean and the CBC media machine, problems with age, children and family, and wraps it up in a compelling story that always reminds us why hockey is the great game. Plus she used to sing in a country band - how could I resist?

Her web site is here w Cold-cocked: Her web site is here where you can read a bit of Cold-cocked if you're interested. Jan 28, Gabrielle rated it really liked it. One of my many love affairs with the UVic Creative Writing department stems from the sexy faculty and their love for hockey. My lovely experience with this book falls shortly behind watching a Canucks game with Bill Gaston. Jan 08, Michele DeShaw rated it it was amazing Shelves: Sometimes the best books are the ones you encounter by accident. This is one of those: She lives relatively remotely on Vancouver Island and takes the ferry to Vancouver to watch the Canucks.

I would add watching the Royals in Victoria.

May 08, TheTyee. According to Lorna Jackson in her new book Cold-Cocked: On Hockey, we must read hockey like a good short story. We have to see the games as scenes, and the players as characters, actions as words -- a booming slapshot, an impossible deke, a body sacrificed against a blocked shot, a meaty fist upside an unsuspecting head. Jun 27, Katie marked it as to-read Shelves: I haven't read this yet, but it sounds like this woman beat me to publication on the book I've been writing for six years!

Mar 17, Sarah rated it really liked it. I found myself saying "yes, exactly! Good to see a Western Canadian hockey book.

Kate rated it it was amazing Aug 10, Dayna rated it really liked it May 08, Olivia rated it did not like it Oct 02, Meaghan rated it really liked it Sep 10,