Tag: review
member name: Betty Dobson
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May 22, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
Diane Duane's The Book of Night With Moon combines two of my favorite elements: cats and wizards. The striking cover art catches the eye immediately, and the story synopsis completes the . . .
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May 27, 2006 08:48 PM EDT --
Katherine Gibson knows a thing or two about pushing clutter out of her life. In fact, the British Columbia author wrote the book on clutter busting--and not just in the physical sense. From the cover image . . .
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May 23, 2006 01:01 AM EDT --
The first time I read Kevin Staniec's And This Was My Happy Ending, I didn't think too much about mechanics and style. I just let myself get drawn into the story. I felt the words as much as read . . .
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May 25, 2006 10:32 PM EDT --
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World is surprisingly interesting--a history lesson tied together by an unusual but effective theme.
Author Mark Kurlansky begins in the modern day, observing . . .
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May 25, 2006 10:41 PM EDT --
Every once in a while, you find a truly fantastic book--or rather, it finds you. Such was the case a few weeks ago when an autographed copy of Gerald Arthur Moore's first poetry book, The Winter Croquet . . .
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May 27, 2006 01:08 AM EDT --
Carol Lesbirel and Julie Ann Wilton embody many fine attributes, separately and together, including positive thinking, teamwork, and determination.
Lesbirel delivers dynamic and hard-hitting presentations . . .
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May 25, 2006 05:20 PM EDT --
William B. Hamilton loves to talk--about history in general and his new book in particular.
We'd no sooner settled in at one of the Waverley Inn's breakfast room tables than he'd launched . . .
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June 11, 2006 11:18 PM EDT --
As I watched the 2006 Tony Awards, I couldn't help but cheer as the Canadian musical The Drowsy Chaperone started winning awards.
Best Book of a Musical
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Best Original . . .
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May 25, 2006 05:58 PM EDT --
In 1997, Jenni Blackmore releases Counting Crows, her collection of poetry and short fiction. The book launch and reading occur at Frog Hollow Books in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Ms. Blackmore treats those . . .
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