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Showing posts with label Macmillan of Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Macmillan of Canada. Show all posts
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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01 May 2023

L.R. Wright Before She Became L.R. Wright

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Neighbours Laurali Wright [L.R. Wright] Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1979 258 pages There's so much wrong with this jacket illustration...
11 August 2022

Mavis Gallant: 100 Years

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Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant (née Young) was born one hundred years ago today. Her image doesn't feature on the cover of Montreal St...
13 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 5: 'Sad End of a Noted Politician' by James MacRae

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For the month,  the fifth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. To think I once worked to celebrate this horrible m...
01 March 2022

'March Day: Windy' by Charles Bruce

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Verse for the new month by Charles Bruce, the pride of Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia. 'March Day: Windy' is one of twenty-four poems co...
20 December 2021

Sometimes a Fantasy

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The Tenants were Corrie and Tennie Kent Thompson Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1973 200 pages Describing The Tenants were Corrie and Tennie ...
01 October 2021

Dustiest Bookcase: S is for Slater (not Mitchell)

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Water-Drinker Patrick Slater [John Mitch...
26 December 2020

The Very Best Reads of a Plague Year

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Not one week into 2020, I met a physician friend for dinner at Sidedoor in Ottawa's ByWard Market. Over too many drinks, he told me of ...
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12 November 2020

What to Do? What to Do?

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The New Front Line Hubert Evans Toronto: Macmillan, 1927 291 pages Hugh Henderson has returned from the Great War, but not to his Ontario ho...
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