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26 August 2019

Domestic Suspense in Small Town Ontario

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M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty Frances Shelley Wees New York: Doubleday, 1954 222 pages M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty  begins after a mo...
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19 August 2019

Bach to the Future, Part III: The Squeaking Wheel

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Final words on  A Voice is Calling and its author. About eight years ago, I posted a piece on The Squeaking Wheel , an ugly, bigoted...
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18 August 2019

Nelson Ball (1942 - 2019)

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Thoughts this weekend have been with Nelson Ball, who died this past Friday. I first encountered Nelson as a poet, and later as a bookse...
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12 August 2019

Bach to the Future, Part II: Le Dernier Voyage

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Le dernier voyage: Un roman de la Gaspésie       [ A Voice is Calling ] Eric C. Morris [trans. Martine Hébert-Duguay] Montreal: Chant...
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05 August 2019

Bach to the Future: A Voice is Calling

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A Voice is Calling Eric Cecil Morris Montreal: B.D. Simpson, 1945 487 pages The strangest novel I've read this year, I strug...
01 August 2019

Margaret Murray Robertson Matrimonial Mystery (& Canadian literature's most tear-stained novel)

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Summertime, and the livin' is busy. Many irons in the fire add to the heat, the pressure is on, and I'm enjoying each and every ...
18 July 2019

Reviving a Searching Novel about Drug Addiction

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Kenneth Orvis'  The Damned and the Destroyed  arrives in bookstores this week. The fourteenth in Ricochet Books' series of ...
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