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	The Journey Prize Stories 29: The Best of Canada's New Writers by Kevin Hardcastle (Goodreads Author), Grace O'Connell, Ayelet Tsabari (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haiku Journal #35 by Glenn Lyvers (Editor), April Zipser (Assistant Editor), Patrick Doerksen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metaphorosis: Best of 2017 (Best of Metaphorosis, #2) by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.R. North (Goodreads Author), Suzanne J. Willis 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Colored Lens #27 Spring 2018 by Dawn Lloyd (Editor), Daniel Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Barry Charman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... June 2021 by Roxanne Klimek, Nestor Delfino (Goodreads Author), Gustavo Bondoni (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aurealis #96 by Dirk Strasser (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Annika Howells (Goodreads Author), S.G. Larner 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metaphorosis 2017: The Complete Stories (Complete Metaphorosis #2) by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.R. North (Goodreads Author), N.R. Lambert (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not One of Us, Issue 70 by John Benson (Editor), Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Steve Toase (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pantheon Magazine: Janus by Lulu Kadhim, Emma McMorran, Patrick Doerksen (Goodreads Author) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bards and Sages Quarterly (January 2019) by Patrick Doerksen (Goodreads Author), Sophie van Llewyn (Goodreads Author), Greg Hill 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Patrick and 14 other people liked Steven's review of The Wayfinder: "tl;dr Exhaustively researched, densely populated, and emotionally earnest, Adam Johnson’s Polynesian epic is a fantastical tale that feels a bit too familiar Like a fire moving across a wooded island, life wasn’t the fleeing of the animals but the tin " Read more of this review »
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An anthropologist crosses “the border” into a strange land where nomadic caravans order their lives according to a dark metaphysical game. This is the Game of the Goose, whose chance outcomes structure their reality in the manner of a religious mytho ...more
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Honestly, the idea of spending hundreds of pages inside the head of a self-hating, sex-starved, scientific-materialist young man didn’t exactly fill me with excitement. But I loved this book. Yeah, there’s the simple aesthetic pleasure I get from ARX ...more
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This is almost exactly what I would have wished to be capable of in the author’s own circumstances. The book is a solid block of pain, refined and condensed the way minerals are in an inkstone. It is methodical yet spacious, artful, dipping now and t ...more
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