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Showing posts with label Ottawa Citizen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ottawa Citizen. Show all posts
04 April 2024

A Man of Peculiar Notions

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Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-Day Robert Stead Toronto: Musson, 1920 388 pages Robert Stead's fourth novel,  Dennison Grant  follows  Th...
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21 August 2023

The Legs of Mary Roberts

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Much of this past weekend was spent rereading Horace Brown's 1947 Whispering City ; this in preparing its return to print as the next Ri...
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27 June 2022

E.T. Cash In

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P.E.T: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his unearthly adventures Jude Waples New York: Avon, 1983 93 pages E.T. was the summer blockbuster of 198...
07 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 3: 'My Little Suffragette' by Thaddeus A. Browne

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For the month,  the third of ten poems I find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Thaddeus A. Browne had a decades-long career as an O...
02 November 2015

Sugar Pills and a Nurse Named Molly

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Rx for Murder Jane Layhew Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1946 I've read Rx for Murder , but I'm not sure about anyone else; cert...
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13 October 2015

The Most Offensive Author's Bio of All Time?

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Time has been tight, so tight that I've read no more than the front and back flaps of Jane Layhew's  Rx for Murder , next up in ...
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28 June 2014

Mackenzie King Attends the Funeral of Peregine Acland's Mother & Visits Wilfred Campbell's Grave

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I had a half hour's rest after luncheon before going into the city to attend Mrs. Acland's funeral. Went in with Hendy by statio...
27 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Ben Hecht on Front Page …of The Ottawa Citizen

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The Ottawa Citizen , 31 October 1947
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11 March 2013

A Not So Nice Place to Visit

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The Sin Sniper Hugh Garner Richmond Hill, ON: Pocket Books, 1970 From the back cover: So what's he doing writing a ...
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