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Showing posts with label Engel (Marian). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engel (Marian). Show all posts
21 June 2025

Dusty CanLit Spring Reviews

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Here comes summer. School is out. Oh, happy day. So, here we are with the spring blog reviews of old CanLit. As expected, most came from Can...
25 November 2024

Thomas P. Kelley's Elusive Gorilla's Daughter

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The Gorilla's Daughter Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 160 pages   Note:  The Gorilla's Daughter is the most soug...
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14 June 2021

The Dustiest Bookcase: O is for Oxley

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). North Overland with Franklin J Macdonald Oxl...
11 July 2016

The Paratrooper, the Professor and the Publisher: The Nasty Public Battle Over The Quebec Plot

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The first review of my first book was negative. The reviewer's disappointment had to do with my having written the book I wanted to...
10 December 2012

About Those Awful PaperJacks Covers

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I don't mean to suggest that all PaperJacks covers were awful, but they did so often hurt the eyes. Consider the above, a detail fro...
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29 May 2012

Canada's Most Popular Writers (25 Years Ago)?

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Unearthed this past weekend, this little list from the May 1987 issue of Books in Canada . It is as described, a "studiously uns...
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17 May 2010

From the Public Library to Mine

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There will be some unpleasantness. This past week I spent a few hours volunteering at the semiannual St Marys Public Library boo...
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