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Showing posts with label Dedications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dedications. Show all posts
04 March 2024

Too Soon?

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Son of a Meech: The Best Brian Mulroney Jokes Mark Breslin, ed. Toronto: Ballantine, 1991 113 pages News of Brian Mulroney's death last ...
06 February 2023

A Woman Cheated

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The Cannibal Heart Collected Millar: Dawn of Domestic Suspense Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 In Margaret Millar's bibliograp...
12 October 2022

Quebec City Noir

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Whispering City Horace Brown Pickering, ON: Global Publishing, 1947 190 pages Whispering City  may be Canada's very first film noir. Thi...
27 June 2022

E.T. Cash In

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P.E.T: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his unearthly adventures Jude Waples New York: Avon, 1983 93 pages E.T. was the summer blockbuster of 198...
24 June 2022

'La Fête nationale' par Léon Lorrain

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Léon Lorrain 1855 - 1892 RIP Verse for the day from Léon Lorrain's Les Fleurs poétiques, simples bluettes (Montreal: Beauchemin, 1890)....
19 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 7: 'Dat's Laurier' by William Wilber MacCuaig

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For the month,  the seventh of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. The second of two poems praising Wilfrid Laurier ...
14 December 2021

A Good Old Soldier

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Old Soldier Frederick Niven London: Collins, 1936 250 pages Stewart Reid lives in a small flat with his wife and two young sons in Edinburgh...
06 December 2021

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2021... and much more!

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A better year than last, right? I got out more, raised pints in pubs, saw my daughter, and spent seven days touring Quebec City and the East...