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Showing posts with label Parker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parker. Show all posts
14 September 2022

Born Again Infidel

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The Right of Way Gilbert Parker New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ c. 1907] 419 pages I don't like it when a novel opens with a line of d...
21 December 2020

Best Books of 1920: Beware the Bolshevik Poets

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The Globe , 4 December 1920 The 1920  Globe  round-up of the year's best books was published on the first Saturday of that December. Twe...
27 April 2018

Further Along The Lane That Had No Turning

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The Lane That Had No Turning      and Other Tales Concerning the People of Pontiac;      Together with Certain 'Parables of Provin...
17 April 2015

Remembering Ron Scheer… on a Friday

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Ron Scheer died this past weekend. He was my teacher. We never met. A son of Nebraska, for more than four years Ron served as a patien...
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19 September 2014

Here's to Patti Abbott and Friday's Forgotten Books

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It's been well over six years since Patti Abbott launched Friday's Forgotten Books , a weekly round-up of blog posts dealing wi...
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10 June 2013

The Year L.M. Montgomery Became Lucy Maud

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The Canadian Bookman , January 1909 I have Erica Brown of the wonderful Reading 1900-1950 to blame for time wasted this past weekend. ...
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23 November 2012

A 19th-century Céline Dion and Her Horrible Hunchback Husband

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'The Lane That Had No Turning' The Lane That Had No Turning      and Other Tales Concerning the People of Pontiac Gilbert...
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22 March 2012

a/k/a Frank Tarbeaux

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Tarboe: The Story of a Life Gilbert Parker Toronto: Copp Clarke, 1927 Imagine how old fashioned a fellow Sir Gilbert must have seem...
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09 January 2012

POD Cover of the Month: Romany of the Snows

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Romany of the Snows – what we sticklers refer to as A Romany of the Snows – another fine product from print on demand house Tutis . Tak...
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