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George’s 2025 Year in Books
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George K. Ilsley
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From the Vancouver Sun: “all the characters in this drama of small-town loss and bafflement are...
From the Vancouver Sun: “all the characters in this drama of small-town loss and bafflement are shown with compassion in all their human complexity. At a time when so many of us are dealing with mortality during the pandemic, this book will provide thoughtful comfort and artful relief to many readers.”
Book review: Son’s end of life memoir for his father is gritty, honest and moving
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Best Canadian Poetry 2021
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The Home Stretch: A Father, a Son, and All the Things They Never Talk About
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ManBug
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Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws: Short Fiction
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Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman
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Random Acts of Hatred
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Contra/Diction: New Queer Male Fiction
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Queeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose
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The Fed Anthology: Brand New Fiction and Poetry from the Federation of BC Writers
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George Ilsley
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Stewart Tame's review
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?:
"The cover pretty much says it all. If you've ever entertained the idea of living on Mars, this is the book for you. The Weinersmiths have done their homework and presented it all in as clear and entertaining a fashion as possible.
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Vonnegut describes this tale as "a sickeningly slick love story" and claims The Ladies Home Journal provided the title. Vonnegut's title was "Hell to Get Along With." Vonnegut's self-deprecation is admirable and refreshing. In the story, a solider goes ...more |
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"Somewhere in between 4 and 5 stars.
At the beginning of Project Hail Mary, a last-resort action in the face of catastrophe, it seemed to me that I was reading the next chapters of Mark Watney's adventures (The Martian by Weir). Well, somehow, I was wr" Read more of this review » |
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Unnaturally large, shape-shifting and encrusted, this attractive carcass reflects the hopes and dreams —and fears— of a small insular fishing village. He was heavy, because water had gotten into his bones, and he kept growing, after death — part of th ...more |
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A challenging, abstract, philosophical short story, in three parts. The first is about the language of ants, recorded on acacia seeds in a chemical form (coincidentally, recently saw a video of a type of moth that, as a caterpillar, drops to the groun ...more |
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A autora das sementes de acácia e outras passagens da Associação de Therolinguistica:
"O presente conto faz parte de uma antologia publicada na década de 1990 , The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF, contendo diversos contos de ficção-científica, de forma a apresentar uma evolução do gênero. É também o conto no qual Vinciane D"
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Unnaturally large, shape-shifting and encrusted, this attractive carcass reflects the hopes and dreams —and fears— of a small insular fishing village. He was heavy, because water had gotten into his bones, and he kept growing, after death — part of th ...more |
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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A baffling, opaque short story, from an unfamiliar US writer who is known for producing masterful short fiction. Apparently first published in 1948, this story, set in the urban south, contains the harsh language and casual racism characteristic of US ...more |
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“The Sanskrit word for awareness is smriti, which no one can pronounce. This may explain why awareness has not become as well-known in the west as karma, dharma, and nirvana.”
― ManBug
― ManBug
“She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
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I just requested your book THE HOME STRETCH from my local library. :)
Thank you! I was very excited recently when I saw it in my local branch.