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Showing posts with label Leacock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leacock. Show all posts
02 July 2024

My First Canadian Book of Lists List: Ten Lists That Have Aged Poorly (Featuring Barbara Amiel!)

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Being the second post on The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists .   I read Barbara Amiel's columns in Maclean...
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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24 July 2023

Average Leacock for the Average Man

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Winnowed Wisdom Stephen Leacock New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926 300 pages The author's sixteenth book of humour in as many years, one wonders...
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26 December 2022

The Very Best Reads of 2022: Ladies First

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Late last night, as Christmas festivities drew to a close, I pulled Victor Lauriston's  The Twenty-first Burr  (Toronto: McClelland &...
10 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 4: 'You' by Ram Spudd Stephen Leacock

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For the month,  the fourth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Verse from Ram Spudd, "one of nature's ge...
02 March 2022

Lunar Attractions; or, The Leacock I Like

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Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy Stephen Leacock Toronto: Gundy, 1915 282 pages My introduction to Stephen Leacock came through a copy of  L...
21 December 2020

Best Books of 1920: Beware the Bolshevik Poets

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The Globe , 4 December 1920 The 1920  Globe  round-up of the year's best books was published on the first Saturday of that December. Twe...