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Reading Lessig’s Remix : Copyright Regulating Culture
Submitted by The Zeds blog on 07.29.10 at 10:56am.
My summer reading this year includes Lawrence Lessig‘s Remix, and it’s so far been refreshing to read about how copyright drives and hampers our culture. Tonight, though, I’m hung up on a dark, sour fact about copyright, especially as it exists in America, which is that an act that was meant to ...
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Orphans : Family Reading
Submitted by The Reader on 07.29.10 at 6:13am.
Feature: Family Reading: Ages 8+ (Children’s books that adults will love too!)
From Oliver Twist to Harry Potter, the plight of the orphan has tugged at the heartstrings of readers for generations. What is the appeal of these stories? Well, aside from the pity they evoke, without the protection ...
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Staff Picks: Graphic Memoirs
Submitted by The Reader on 07.28.10 at 6:33am.
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the graphic novels section of my branch lately. Of the books I’ve read recently, two stand out: Stitches by David Small (2008) & Nikolai Maslov’s (2006) Siberia.
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Food for Thought
Submitted by The Reader on 07.27.10 at 6:25am.
You know that eating has become complicated when we need manifestos and exposes to help us through dinner. North Americans, despite our apparent diet consciousness, rely too heavily on fast and prepared foods and have as a result, according to Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American m...
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Only now its "Les douze ans perdu"
Submitted by The Arcadian Recorder on 07.26.10 at 7:05am.
People sometimes ask ,"how is my book on life in Canada's new frontier towns of the 1950s going?"
The book was called "Les dix ans trouve" --- all about the postwar determination to make up for the years lost to the Great Depression AND World War One.
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Call me a pessimist...
Submitted by The Reader on 07.26.10 at 6:19am.
I love reading about disaster preparedness. There's something comforting about an expert's reassurance. Everything will be alright.
Almost every title I've read warns not to use a single book as a be-all/end-all survival guide.
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Frank MacDonald night
Submitted by Blogger on 07.23.10 at 6:24am.
Frank MacDonald chats with friends among the capacity crowd that packed the Inverness County Centre for the Arts Wednesday night for a tribute to the Inverness County author and poet. The River Hill Players performed several of MacDonald’s songs and plays,
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The Hermit of Africville: the life of Eddie Carvery , by Jon Tattrie
Submitted by The Reader on 07.23.10 at 6:19am.
Journalist Jon Tattrie’s account of the life of Eddie Carvery is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Halifax or in civil rights in general. The book focuses on Eddie Carvery, a man resolved to right the wrongs of what happened to his community.
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Flawed Characters and Conflict
Submitted by Richard Levangie's blog on 07.22.10 at 7:02am.
One major problem that I face in writing for the late-middle grades is that I’m so far removed from them. I’m not only over the hill, I’m way down the hollow.
We don’t have children, and I don’t really remember what it was like to be 12 or 13, although I do remember hating it. It’s one reason wh...
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Shorts for Summer - Essay Edition
Submitted by The Reader on 07.22.10 at 6:22am.
Last summer I wrote a post about reading short stories in the summer time. The idea being that summer is a great time to grab a book and feel like you can dip into it and jump back out again, without taking on the commitment of a whole novel.
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Secret Lives
Submitted by The Reader on 07.21.10 at 6:48am.
PSST, wanna know a secret?
I think you do ... or at least it seems like the publishing industry thinks you do—if the number of books on the supposed secret life (and sometimes lives) of people, places and things is any indication.
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Gay/Lesbian Fiction
Submitted by The Reader on 07.20.10 at 6:29am.
The first novels I can remember reading that had lesbian characters were The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg.
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Transgender Tales
Submitted by The Reader on 07.19.10 at 6:20am.
My first exposure to transgender stories was in the Pulitzer Prize book, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.
Other tales you might consider are:
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25 Questions With Author Sarah Hina
Submitted by Richard Levangie's blog on 07.16.10 at 6:53am.
Sarah Hina • Plum Blossoms in Paris
I knew that Sarah Hina and I could be great friends on the day she called me a cocksucker.
But I need to back up. I met Sarah online; I know a few members of an online writing circle, and when I decided to finish my young adult novel I decided to connect with...
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Cooking with Magic Realism
Submitted by The Reader on 07.16.10 at 6:13am.
In the New York Review of Books, I came across an ad for Aimee Bender's new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (also mentioned in an earlier post). It tells the story of a girl who, when she eats, tastes the emotions of the cook, as well as the food.
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Five Books I Want to Read this Summer - Eric's Picks
Submitted by The Reader on 07.15.10 at 6:41am.
As a readers' advisory at the public library (working in a bunch of departments), I need to stay current about literature for all ages. This is a challenge, requiring me to read widely in the areas of children, teen and adult publishing.
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Plum Blossoms in Paris by Sarah Hina
Submitted by Richard Levangie's blog on 07.14.10 at 7:11am.
Sarah Hina and I both went to medical school, both hate the smell of formaldehyde with a passion, and both dreamed of being writers. Sarah is living that dream with the release of Plum Blossoms in Paris, and she’s launching her blog promotion tour today at Travis Erwin’s blog.
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2010 Orange Award for New Writers - The Boy Next Door, by Irene Sabatini
Submitted by The Reader on 07.13.10 at 6:33am.
The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini is a modern day Zimbabwean love story. Fourteen year old Lindiwe Bishop becomes enthralled with the boy next door, who has been accused of setting his stepmother on fire. These two rather unlikely interracial suitors join together, trying to make sense of their...
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The Fifth Servant by Kenneth Wishnia
Submitted by The Reader on 07.12.10 at 6:41am.
The Fifth Servant is a fast paced historical mystery set in 16th century Prague. A Christian girl has been found murdered in a Jewish shop, leading to serious accusations of blood libel and threats of revenge. Sexton Benyamin Ben-Akiva has three days to find the murderer before the already volat...
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Graphic Takes on the Travel Diary
Submitted by The Reader on 07.9.10 at 6:49am.
Traditionally a hand-crafted medium, the graphic novel is uniquely suited to autobiographical storytelling. As with written autobiographies, there is a fine line between illuminating self-examination & self-indulgent navel-gazing. Two works by authors/artists who walk this line - This American Dr...
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Five Books I Want to Read this Summer -David's Picks
Submitted by The Reader on 07.8.10 at 6:30am.
As always, my summer readings plans are somewhat dependent on when my library holds get filled. Here are my best laid plans, involving a science book, a biography, a graphic novel, a mystery and an audiobook (for when I will be "working" in the garden).
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Library Fiction
Submitted by The Reader on 07.7.10 at 6:30am.
With the planning process in full swing for a new Halifax Central Library, I've been thinking a lot about libraries, especially about a library's connection to writers and their readers.
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Babies in Literature: More from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Submitted by Crooked House on 07.7.10 at 6:16am.
Anna Karenina's husband, Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin, is a contradictory character I can't quite figure out. I can't decide if he isn't particularly well-drawn or if he's actually so well-drawn that he's as difficult to put in a box as a real human being would be -- but I suspect it's the latter.
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25 Questions With Author John DeMont
Submitted by Richard Levangie's blog on 07.6.10 at 7:10am.
John DeMont is just the best guy.
That’s not a throw-away line or a pat introduction. It’s what I thought from the first time that I met him.
You’d think the same thing. Within minutes, you’d describe John as self-effacing, personable, witty, and quick to laugh.
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Five Books I Want to Read This Summer - Laurel's Picks
Submitted by The Reader on 07.6.10 at 6:27am.
Like you, my first thought was, “only five?”! Oh my, what to choose! Then, I began thinking of long, warm summer days, lying in a lawn chair, sipping iced tea and reading a book. Imagining myself there, hearing the ice cubes clinking in my glass and feeling the sun on my skin…what would I imagine...
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Five Books I Want to Read this Summer - Lynne's Picks
Submitted by The Reader on 07.5.10 at 6:06am.
Every summer comes with a feeling of anticipation. People you'll see that you don't see on regular basis. Places you'll go on your vacation. Company coming. Great food on the barbeque, and last if not least, great books to read.
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CBC Information Morning - Summer Books
Submitted by The Reader on 07.2.10 at 6:57am.
Two of our bloggers are slated to be on CBC Radio 1's Information Morning program this morning.
Kristina and myself, along with the lovely Lisa D. from Woozles Children's Bookstore, will be on air to offer our summer reading suggestions to listeners (90.5 FM in the Halifax area).
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Word on the Street returns to its roots
Submitted by Halifax Magazine blog on 06.30.10 at 7:59am.
Contrary to what you may have heard, Halifax’s Word on the Street festival will be back for 2010. And, if you yearn for the alfresco festivals of past years, you’ll be particularly happy with this September’s edition. Here are the details in a press release from organizers.
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Five Books I want to read this summer - Kristina's Picks
Submitted by The Reader on 06.30.10 at 6:46am.
For me summer is reading season (well, okay, every season is reading season but summer is even more so). It's a time when I normally have a great pile of books on the nightstand and a long list of others that I want to get to soon. I checked in with the bloggers here at the Reader and many of the...
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Village India in fiction
Submitted by The Reader on 06.29.10 at 6:13am.
India is a country with a population of over a billion people. But unlike many western countries, the majority of its people still live in villages. A great many novels set in contemporary India focus on life in the urban core, many in Mumbai (Bombay).
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Read Your Way Around Nova Scotia - Halifax
Submitted by The Reader on 06.28.10 at 6:34am.
Last year we read our way around Nova Scotia and had such a good time, we thought we'd go again.
Apparently, living in Halifax does not make you immune to run-ins with vampires. In Once a Samurai by D.C. Rhind, Michael Cameron, a Martial Arts instructor, has trouble brewing in all aspects of his...
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Fiction to try if you like....
Submitted by The Reader on 06.25.10 at 6:30am.
One of my favourite features in book reviews is the comparisons reviewers often make to other books - putting a new book in the context of an older one to help readers to get a feel for it. Finding similar reads to our favourite titles can be a challenge (one that we here at the Reader hope we're...
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Atlantic Author Day
Submitted by East Coast By Choice on 06.25.10 at 6:29am.
Hey, East Coast bookworms! I know you’re out there. Have you heard about the free event taking place in bookstores across the region tomorrow (Saturday, June 26) from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.? Atlantic Author Day is being put on by the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association and features writ...
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Read Your Way Around Nova Scotia - Cape Breton
Submitted by The Reader on 06.24.10 at 6:44am.
Last year we read our way around Nova Scotia and had such a good time, we thought we'd go again.
Tessie Gillis has been heralded as the "Godmother of Cape Breton fiction". Though she came from away, she described life in rural Cape Breton with keen insight. She married a farmer and moved to isol...
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Atlantic Authors Day - Coming Soon
Submitted by The Reader on 06.23.10 at 6:45am.
With the second annual Atlantic Author's Day coming up this Saturday(June 26th) at local bookstores, I got to thinking about some of my own favourite East Coast literature books. I'm sure I've mentioned all three of these books before, but I think they deserve a second mention.
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Staff Pick: Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
Submitted by The Reader on 06.22.10 at 7:44am.
With the news each day documenting the mounting devastation in the Gulf of Mexico as the oil spill there continues into its third month, I find myself thinking frequently about a novel I read a few years ago.
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Who are the Canadian 20 under 40?
Submitted by The Reader on 06.21.10 at 6:52am.
Last week, I wrote a blog post about New Yorker magazine's 20 under 40—their look at 20 young authors who are going to define the next generation of American fiction—it got me wondering ... who are the Canadian 20 under 40?
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Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
Submitted by The Reader on 06.18.10 at 6:55am.
Before Sheldon and Leonard (Big Bang Theory) made theoretical physics charming, if not comprehensible, there was Richard Feynman. When a colleague saw me holding this book, she said, "Ooooh Richard Feynman!" in much the same way another would say "Ooooh Paul Newman".
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Book to Watch for: Mothers and Other Liars by Amy Bourret
Submitted by The Reader on 06.17.10 at 6:55am.
This August, St. Martin's Griffin is releasing a first novel from an author who's sure to be one to watch. Mothers and Other Liars is the story of a young woman—Ruby—who discovers an abandoned baby at a road side rest stop and makes a snap decision: she takes the baby.
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The Author Stage - Robert J. Sawyer
Submitted by The Reader on 06.16.10 at 6:37am.
Good news for those of us who may have missed the recent Robert J. Sawyer author reading at the Spring Garden Road Library.
The event was fortunately captured on film and has been posted on the Library website as part of the Author Stage series.
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Toughness Required - crime fiction
Submitted by The Reader on 06.15.10 at 6:42am.
The world of crime fiction is filled with an incredible range of lead characters types. From the bumbling, nosy senior with a cat, all the way to the suave, sophisticated and debonair secret agent.
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When the Lights Go Out
Submitted by The Reader on 06.14.10 at 6:43am.
Peggy's Cove without a lighthouse? Impossible to imagine!
As I was writing Saturday's posting and learning about Evelyn Richardson's We Keep a Light, it brought to mind the recent news of DFO's decision to declare many lighthouses (including Peggy's Cove) surplus.
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Franklin Grows Up
Submitted by Richard Levangie's blog on 06.11.10 at 7:28am.
Kristina and I both like Franklin, the sweet little turtle who has many adventures, and helps kids understand their world even as he entertains them, that rarest of feats. The delightful picture books have sold more than 50 million copies, and have been translated into 38 languages. A popular ani...
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Review: “Halifax: Warden of the North (Updated Edition)”
Submitted by Halifax Magazine blog on 06.10.10 at 7:57am.
Ever since Thomas Raddall first published it in 1948, Halifax: Warden of the North has been the definitive book on this city. This new edition from Nimbus Publishing updates the story, while losing nothing of the original edition’s magic. With breezy storytelling, Raddall traces Halifax’s politic...
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Cracking Codes & Cracking Jokes: Joyce in the Morning
Submitted by The Reader on 06.10.10 at 6:51am.
A few summers ago I tried to tackle James Joyce's Ulysses as a summer reading project. I made a valiant effort and enjoyed the first 100 or pages before I hit a point where I started to lose understanding and with it interest.
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Fiction of India - Canadian Connections
Submitted by The Reader on 06.9.10 at 6:50am.
India is a vast country with a very diverse population of over a billion people and a long history that has birthed many stories and writers over the year.
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Parrish the Thought
Submitted by Richard Levangie's blog on 06.8.10 at 7:30am.
Aerin Bender-Stone has organized Stephen Parrish’s circle of writing friends into a group celebrating the launch of The Tavernier Stones, his novel about an international hunt for legendary gemstones.
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The New Yorker - 20 under 40
Submitted by The Reader on 06.8.10 at 6:48am.
Book blogs and news sites last week were abuzz with the news that this week's issue of the New Yorker magazine would focus on the magazine's selection of 20 authors under 40 who are worth watching. The magazine cover story "Summer Fiction - 20 under 40" promises to share "Twenty young writers who...
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Books: CKDU & BookCamp Halifax
Submitted by East Coast By Choice on 06.8.10 at 6:44am.
Had a great time at BookCamp Halifax this weekend. If you missed out, here’s the session I ran on online communities with Eric Rountree (@faltarego). Thanks a million to Haligonia who webstreamed a number of sessions throughout the day and captured at least some of the event for anyone who wasn’...
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Nautilus Book Awards
Submitted by The Reader on 06.7.10 at 6:30am.
The Nautilus Book Awards' mission statement is
Changing the World One Book at a Time.
"The Nautilus Awards recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the "imagination" and offer the reader "new...
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Joe Hill: Horror Redeemed by a Devil
Submitted by The Reader on 06.4.10 at 6:27am.
I’m not one for horror novels. Give me the weirdness of fantasy, the potential of sci fi, the action of adventure. Horror is gross. Horror is painful. Horror is about suffering, whether its in the mind or body. Horror is riddled with cliches.
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The future of (e-)reading
Submitted by East Coast By Choice on 06.4.10 at 6:26am.
Hot off the digital press, check out The Coast article in the arts news section where I give an interview about e-readers and physical books ahead of BookCamp Halifax this weekend (it’s not too late to register).
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New and Forthcoming Thrillers to Keep Your Summer Hopping
Submitted by The Reader on 06.3.10 at 6:39am.
There's nothing like a great thriller to add a bit of excitement to your summer vacation. Lots of big names are about to release, or have recently released, titles that will be great additions to any summer reading list. Grab a copy of one of these and head to the beach or out on the deck and enj...
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Read Your Way Around the World - South Africa
Submitted by The Reader on 06.2.10 at 6:46am.
With the 2010 Fifa World Cup looming, South Africa has been in the news a lot lately.
Unfortunately the excitement around this big event has been very much tempered by the talk of protests and the risk of violence. This seems to parallel much of the modern South African experience,
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Ursula Le Guin and the The Aeneid's Lavinia
Submitted by Peter O’Brien on 01.26.10 at 1:27pm.
Lavinia, By Ursula K. Le Guin
Reviewed by Peter O’Brien
Ursula K. Le Guin's career as a creator of alternative realities dates back four decades now. She is perhaps best known for the Earthsea series for young adults, but her oeuvre in adult science fiction and fantasy has a speculat...
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Book Review: Of Canoes, Maritime History, and Friendship
Submitted by Keith McPhail on 12.18.09 at 7:35am.
It’s a little bit of adventure memoir, philosophical retrospective, chronicle of a friendship, historical reflection … and more. As a slim volume, Like an Ever Rolling Stream author Hugh W. McKervill packs this literary trip to the gunwales.
A modest edition by Four East Publications, McKervil...
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Book Review: An Echo in the Bone
Submitted by Carolyn Davison on 12.5.09 at 9:37am.
Diana Gabaldon’s seventh and latest installment, An Echo in the Bone, has enough interrelated tales (five to be exact) to sustain fans through many cold winter nights.
An Echo in the Bone is the continuing historical fiction saga of Clare Randall and Jamie Fraser and their family in 18th cen...
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Book Excerpt: An Echo in the Bone, by Diana Gabaldon
Submitted by Nicholas Graham on 12.5.09 at 9:42am.
The following is excerpted from the hardcover edition of An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon Copyright © 2009 by Diana Gabaldon. Excerpted by permission of Anchor Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted...
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Memories of home
Submitted by Jera Yin on 04.17.09 at 10:29am.
“Up Home” is a book with a story by Shauntay Grant and artwork by Susan Tooke that is published by Nimbus Publishing. The first thing that strikes you about the book “Up Home” is the beautiful patchwork image that adorns the cover. Symbolic of the stories and memories of growing up, “Up Home” w...
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Stories of Afghanistan from those who know
Submitted by Janus Siebritz on 04.16.09 at 7:49am.
When it comes to understanding the experience of war and conflict in Afghanistan from a distance, one of the only ways to get a grasp the every day challenges faced is from reading the stories of those who were personally involved.
Outside the Wire explores in a very human manner, not only th...
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Mac Maharaj: South African hero
Submitted by Dr. Linda Liebenberg on 02.17.09 at 9:39am.
Anyone interested in South African politics should read this book. This mammoth work of Padraig O’Malley’s provides a vivid account of the past 60 years of South Africa’s history, positioning it around the story of a man who is unflinchingly critical of himself, the movement he served loyally for...
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Margaret Atwood's Debt Plan
Submitted by Dorey Thomas on 01.6.09 at 11:54am.
Payback: Debt and the Shadow side of Wealth
By Margaret Atwood
Because it has appeared at the time of a global economic crisis stemming mainly from an overload of debt, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth has been hailed as timely. Given the prominence Margaret Atwood has given...
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A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano -- an excerpt
Submitted by Topbanana on 12.12.08 at 11:36am.
And then there was the piano, which the National Library had decided to purchase from Gould’s estate. An eight-foot-eleven-and-one-quarter-inch Steinway concert grand, it was known as CD 318 (C to signify its special status as having been put aside for the use of Steinway concert artists, and D d...
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Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
Submitted by Johanna Graham on 12.12.08 at 11:34am.
When I was about seven years old I played in the local Kiwanis music festival for the first time. I sat down at the piano to play the first notes of “Under the Haycock” and nothing happened. The action of the grand piano’s keys was so stiff my little fingers did not produce any sound at all. I qu...
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The Man Who Made Vermeers
Submitted by Dorey Thomas on 11.15.08 at 10:32am.
On May 29, 1945, Han van Meegeren was arrested
in Amsterdam on the charge that during the Nazi occupation he sold a painting by Jan Vermeer to Herman Goering, the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe. This transaction amounted to trading with the enemy, and was in effect an act of collaboration. ...
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Marche on Sanjania
Submitted by Keith McPhail on 11.10.08 at 11:54am.
Wake up armchair travelers! There’s a new country to explore. Stephen Marche’s Shining at the Bottom of the Sea requires only that you get comfortable in your favorite reading chair, flip open the cover and let your eyes do the walking. Marche’s novel isn’t a real travelogue, because it is based ...
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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, by Stephen Marche: an excerpt
Submitted by Nicholas Graham on 11.10.08 at 12:05pm.
[For the sake of readability and accessibility, the spelling and in some cases the syntax of this story have been normalized.—s.m.]
Wherever they may be, and wherever they may be from, all men do relish a hanging. The Drama of Law, with its Crime and its Punish and its splendid gibbet Finish, ...
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Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs: An Excerpt
Submitted by Nicholas Graham on 11.7.08 at 2:39pm.
I started playing my first song — “Little Bird, Little Bird,” a folk elegy about a Second World War soldier. I stood at the front of the stage but stepped down on the floor after sensing that the lyrics couldn’t be heard at the back of the hall. Before I got too deeply into the song, however, I b...
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Lightning and Blackberries: An excerpt
Submitted by Nicholas Graham on 10.29.08 at 10:14am.
The following is an excerpt from Lightning and Blackberries, by Joanne Jefferson.
I felt my heart beating harder and my breath coming in shorter bursts, but I tried to keep myself calm as I turned to retrace my steps. Thunderstorms did not frighten me. Was it this way, I thought, or tha...
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Book Review: Lightning and Blackberries
Submitted by Anne Esslinger on 10.29.08 at 10:11am.
In the eighteenth century, life for teenage girls was much different than it is today. By the time they reached seventeen, young ladies were expected to think seriously of marriage to an approved suitor. Elizabeth Evans was different. She rebelled against her mother’s idea that she should spend h...
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Nikolski, by Nicolas Dickner: A Review
Submitted by Lynn Lethbridge on 09.27.08 at 3:24pm.
My first thought when I finished Nikolski was that I would like to read it again. Not in a bad way as in, “Holy crow, I’m supposed to review this and I have nothing to say I better read it again” but in a good way as in, “I think I could take something different from this book each time I read it...
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Society of Wolves, a review of Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
Submitted by Keith McPhail on 09.24.08 at 6:58pm.
I have to admit up front that I am not familiar with Chinese, so I have not read Wolf Totem in its original language, thus leaving me, as a reviewer, at the mercy of the translator. Author Jiang Rong (whose real name is Lu Jiamin) is well served by translator Howard Goldblatt—and I don’t just say...
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Chronicler of the Winds
Submitted by Wanda McDonald on 09.22.08 at 9:03am.
Henning Mankell is perhaps best known as the author of the Kurt Wallander series of crime stories. He has, though, an impressive volume of work outside of that genre, including the one discussed here.
Chronicler of the Winds is written with both great intensity and a beautiful calmness. The st...
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Book Review: The Truth About Canada
Submitted by Michael Bradfield on 09.5.08 at 10:10am.
As implied by the tabloid-style title, Mel Hurtig’s latest book is necessary reading, particularly for journalists, editorial writers, politicians, and CEOs. For all Canadians it provides a mass of data and sources to evaluate the misleading and often downright false statements served up by our “...
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The Shipwreck, the Sultan, and the Slave: A Tale of Sixteenth Century Constantinople
Submitted by Linda Liebenberg on 08.16.08 at 8:07am.
Book Review: The Aviary Gate, by Katie Hickman
The intriguing sixteenth century tale of Celia Lamprey is researched by the twenty-first century doctoral student Elizabeth in The Aviary Gate. Set in the world of merchant-rich Istanbul, sightings are reported of the sea captain Thomas Lam...
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