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The city in Elizabeth Hay’s novel Late Nights on Air (McCelelland & Stewart) is a Yellowknife drawn from memory and imagination. In an interview with Shelagh Rogers, the Ottawa author talked about writing a novel set in a place she hadn’t visited for decades. Last fall Hay won the Scotiabank Gi...
To many, Martin Amis might seem more of an aging rock star than a world-class author. His life is often the subject of news stories, from his very public relationships with women and agents to the size of his advances, and his controversial statements on racial profiling. Regarded by many critics a...
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The author of Shrek! also wrote picture book about a boy who can sulk even in a hammock on a beautiful summer day Spinky Sulks. By William Steig. Sunburst, 32 pp., $4.99, paperback. Ages 3 and up. By Janice Harayda Not long ago, I mentioned the “Classic Picture Books Every Child Should Read” ser...
Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor is a three-gun turret — one part gripping adventure story, one part Valentine to George W. Bush, and one part screed against journalists. And because those parts don’t always mesh well, it’s a hard book to recommend unreservedly. Not so Return Wit...
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Title of book(s) I've been reading this hour (hourly # of pages):..... Forgive Me ~ by Amanda Eyre Ward (0 pages)..... Total pages this hour = 0 pagesBooks I've read (or dipped into) since I started (total # of pages):..... A Three Dog Life ~ by Abigail Thomas (182 pages)..... Big Woods ("The Bear\...
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Decided to have some fun with widgets today. Inspired from one of the top Facebook apps, I made a new 'book montage' widget. It's a javascript widget, so it will only work on blogs that allow javascript widgets. Like our flash widget, its full configurable in terms of which books you show, and ho...
Amid all the insultingly obvious product placement in the new Sex & The City movie (I laughed, I cried, I abso-f***ing-lutely loved it), I was thrilled to see Carrie Bradshaw reading and cherishing a book. A real book! For a heroine who writes for a living, Carrie seems to spend more time out on the...
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The 2008 Rochester International Jazz Fest is in full swing, and this page has been taken over and re-dubbed for the week. If you are looking for other RIJF goers who seek virtual and face-to-face interactions, check these guys out: Jazz Rochester Fretful Porpentine Krazy Barr...
Have you ever watched Télemundo as a non-Spanish speaker, or asked for directions in Hong Kong? Seeing Jacob Anderskov at the Lutheran Church last night was a bit like that, if the person giving directions was a brilliant poet. Anderskov amazed me. I don’t have the trai...
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I've heard amazing things about PopCo, this author's other book; however, I received this one first, so I plowed right in.And immediately felt the waters close over my head.I'd mark this as an XX book because I'm quitting it. However, I made it over halfway, so part of me feels like I've earned the ...
Winner of the 1995 Man Booker Prize, The Ghost Road completes a trilogy. I'm not sure if being unaware of the first two books affects my experience, but there did seem to be something missing.The beginning of the book is about Billy Prior, a soldier in World War I and patient in a mental institution...
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The Changeling ends up being a potent story - well written, tough-minded, and compassionate. Jenkins never loses the humorous voice that I wrote about in my initial reactions, but he throws a couple of twists into the plot that quite surprised me. When Charlie Forbes takes on Tom Curdie, a boy f...
The last time I saw Sheila we argued about which was Don DeLillo's better book, I went for Underworld and she for White Noise. I found, when thinking about it, that I couldn't really remember White Noise well enough so I'm re-reading it.I felt like the book told me what it is about point blank on p...
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