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Showing posts with label McClelland and Stewart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McClelland and Stewart. 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...
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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16 April 2024

Of Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns, and David Richard Beasley

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  Canadian Authors You Should Know is a self-published book written by a man who counts himself amongst those you should know.    Is that n...
26 December 2023

The Best Reads of 2023: Publishers Take Note

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The season brings a flurry of activity, which explains why I haven't posted one review this month. Still, I did manage to tackle twenty-...
25 December 2023

Bliss Carman's 'Christmas Song'

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Verse for the day from Bliss Carman's handsome  Later Poems (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1921).  Merry Christmas! Joyeux noël!  ...
18 September 2023

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Self-Improvement

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Pagan Love John Murray Gibbon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 310 pages The start of this novel sees a suicide thwarted. Walter Olip...
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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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19 April 2023

Love During Wartime

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Return to Today Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1961 213 pages Vanessa Gray and Don Temple met in a streamy wartime canteen. She was an...
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