The Dusty Bookcase

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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