Friday, October 30, 2009

Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray

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The Ostrich Boys are three British fifteen-year-olds who don't know how to grieve the loss of the fourth member of their group, Ross, w...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

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The Bonesetter's Daughter is told in three parts: present day San Francisco; a small village in China pre-1940; and then back to presen...

You'll Never Know: A Graphic Memoir by C. Tyler. Book One: A Good and Decent Man

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This bittersweet memoir told in comic strips explores the way events in history continue to have repercussions. Carol Tyler's father wa...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe

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The French artists who dared to paint in an entirely new way in the late nineteenth century were scorned by the arts establishment. Manet, M...

The Adventuress and The Three Incestuous Sisters; two books by Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry , has also published a couple of unusual books that a...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada by Robert Bringhurst

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Robert Bringhurst was at two of the events that I attended at the Vancouver writers festival . I was not impressed with him at the first one...
Monday, October 26, 2009

The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon

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I've just returned to Edmonton after a week at the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival and I'm way behind in bloggi...