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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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"A good short read about the pangs of young gay love thwarted through the decades by social pressure. It’s told in three parts all three of which are told as wistful recollections of the narrator (or second hand via another character) which makes one "
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"Daniel Ainslie is a brilliant doctor whose colleagues in the coal-mining town of Broughton, Cape Breton can't understand why he sticks around patching up the miners after their Saturday night fistfights when he could be off in Europe or the U.S. beco"
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"An immensely readable book examining the elements of the novel, and what makes them work well. References most of the great novels of the literature and will make a great reading list for me. "
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Reminiscent of Vonnegut . . . so why isn't Cat's Cradle considered a Young Adult novel? Early in this book I was annoyed by the character Austin's repeated statements how this thing and that thing and everything made him feel horny. These declarations ...more |
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Everyone is talking about Dune and I feel a little left out! So I will claim that I too have read this book (and a number of the sequels, which were increasingly less popular, not sure how far I got). But this first book — the world building was fabul ...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.