A Handful of NOT Reviews, Sorry!
I’d hoped to do another post or two before my trip, but that’s obviously not going to happen, given the list I’m still working my way down. However, it’s important to me to at least…
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Another trio: Two Mysteries and an Epic!
Some light reading: Clyde Ford’s Precious Cargo, set on the West Coast just below the border — I’ve been collecting representations of boats in West Coast literature, and this nicely-written mystery has them in spades.…
View Postfrom my montreal hotel room– a little light reading
Travelling now, which will mostly mean reading mysteries — we try to pack lightly, so I bring along books we’ll both enjoy but won’t mind leaving behind. I did think I might have packed my…
View PostTimothy Taylor’s Stanley Park
I’ve just finished re-reading Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park in preparation for teaching it after our reading break. It’s been six or seven years since I first/last read it, and I was pleased, but not surprised,…
View PostBill Gaston’s Sointula, Rebecca Godfrey’s The Torn Skirt and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life
Quite a few posts back, Mardel commented that she was reading a book set in what she realized must be my homeplace, Nanaimo. I was a bit surprised to learn that, as Bill Gaston, while…
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