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Showing posts with label Macmillan of Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Macmillan of Canada. Show all posts
17 April 2025

A Gypsy in the Jazz Age; Or, Reader Meet Author

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Eyes of a Gypsy John Murray Gibbon Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1926 255 pages This past Saturday marked the sesquicentennial of John Murra...
24 March 2025

Joyce Boyle: Early Research

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An addendum to Saturday's post on  The Stone Cottage Mystery . Emily Joyce Boyle was born on April 6, 1901, missing that year's cens...
22 March 2025

Tumbling Towards Mystery

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The Stone Cottage Mystery Joyce Boyle Toronto: Macmillan, 1961 151 pages A big city girl made unhappy by her family's move to a small to...
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15 January 2025

The Weird Covers of Wes Beattie

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Two weeks into 2025 and I'm only now starting in on my first novel of the New Year... and so late in the day! I've wanted to read Th...
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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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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...