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22 January 2017

The Dusty Bookcase in August

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Today marks the ninth anniversary of The Dusty Bookcase, a good day to recognize what the sharp-eyed have already spotted. This coming A...
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16 January 2017

A Quiet, Mildly Depressing Depression-Era Debut

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John Irene Baird Philadelphia/Toronto: Lippincott, 1937 A first novel, the discovery that this copy is a fourth impression surprised...
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09 January 2017

Old Lady Harlequins: The Wicked, the Suicidal, the Murdered, the Petticoated, and the Headless

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The Wicked Lady Skelton Magellan King-Hill 1949 Die With Me, Lady Ronald Cocking 1953 Lady - Here's Your Wreath Raymond Ma...
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02 January 2017

The Trudeau Papers: Bang!

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The Trudeau Papers Ian Adams Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971 Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fa...
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01 January 2017

'The New Year comes white-winged, unstained, a star...'

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Century-old jingoism to begin a New Year by Minnie Henrietta Bethune Hallowell Bowen (1861-1942) of Sherbrooke, Quebec, from John W. G...
31 December 2016

'The year is dead, for Death slays even time...'

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Verse for the day from the 1935 revised edition of  Our Canadian Literature , an anthology of verse selected by the poet's friends B...
27 December 2016

The Ten Best Book Buys of a Very Bad Year

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An annus horribulus , the death of David Bowie ten days in cast a pall that just wouldn't lift. These have been days of loss and unw...
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