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Showing posts with label Atwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atwood. Show all posts
25 June 2025

On Abebooks' '20 must-read Canadian authors'

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If memory serves, my first Abebooks transaction took place in 1997, roughly two years after the site launched. I purchased a copy of Mordeca...
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04 July 2022

A Forgotten Novelist's Hidden Debut

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Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...
20 August 2018

Amazon Customer Review: Florida Disses Ontario

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Related posts: Sick-Minded Margaret Atwood  is Supposed to Be a Writer of Women's Books Cheering Mrs Moodie's Mi...
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13 August 2018

On Empty Bookshelves & the Premier's Health

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It's been forty-four days since Doug Ford was sworn in as Premier of Ontario. I didn't predict his election here – not exactly...
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13 January 2018

Amazon Customer: Sick-Minded Margaret Atwood is Supposed to Be a Writer of Women's Books

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Related posts: Amazon Customers: Mavis Gallant Was a Stuck Up Intellectual Who Wouldn't Deliver Her Books Homophobes and...
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14 September 2015

Margaret Laurence's Cauliflower Soup

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"I'm going out for more milk." "You're kidding." "It takes an awful lot." "We have crea...
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09 July 2014

Why You Shouldn't Feel Bad about the 100 Novels That Make You Proud to Be Canadian List (and why the CBC should)

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"Depressing how few of these I've read," writes a friend. Minutes later, others begin chiming in with similar sentiment… a...
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05 May 2014

L’enfer c’est les autres: Crad Kilodney, 1948–2014

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It's my honour to present this guest post, a tribute to the late Crad Kilodney by his friend Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr. The photo of Crad ...
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25 August 2013

H is for Hoffer

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List 75: Canadian Literature Vancouver: William Hoffer, Bookseller, [1989?] In spite of his obvious weirdness I found myself liking h...
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