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Showing posts with label Globe and Mail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Globe and Mail. Show all posts
22 July 2024

A Mid-Century Modern Country House Mystery

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Harsh Evidence Pamela Fry London: Wingate, 1953 172 pages Because this is a Canadian country house mystery, the house isn't terribly old...
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04 June 2024

Three Weeks a Lady

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Three Weeks Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [c. 1924] 245 pages I misread "IMMORTAL ROMANCE" as "IMMORAL ROMANCE," which...
12 May 2024

Growing up with Mother

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Miranda Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] New York: Abelard -Schuman, 1960 247 pages   Miranda is the mother of two daughters, the younger bein...
17 April 2024

Morley Callaghan's Red Ryan Rocket

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More Joy in Heaven Morley Callaghan New York: Random House, 1937 278 page s It's been decades since Intro to CanLit II, my second introd...
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18 December 2023

The Globe's Best Books of 1923: 'Canadian Authors Can Be Read With Pleasure, Profit and Pride'

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The Globe , 10 December 1923 Three men feature on the first page of the 1923 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the 'Globe 100'...
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21 August 2023

The Legs of Mary Roberts

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Much of this past weekend was spent rereading Horace Brown's 1947 Whispering City ; this in preparing its return to print as the next Ri...
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02 December 2022

Best Books of 1922: Amidst a Flood of Mediocrity

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Published one hundred years ago today, the 1922 Globe round-up of the year's noteworthy books doesn't display much by way of enthus...