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George’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at George’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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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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2003
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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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2004
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Contra/Diction: New Queer Male Fiction
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1998
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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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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
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"I knew of Rip Van Winkle, but had never read it. The fact it is by a US author, and set in the US was a surprise, as was the fact Rip slept for only 20 years. It purports to have been found in the papers of an amateur historian, Diedrich Knickerbocke"
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Reading now about James I, and slowly very slowly realized that this Charles was his son, the younger son. My grasp of British monarchy is sketchy and fuelled by indifference. And yet my ignorance is not entirely unsullied. A Coffin for King Charles ...more |
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An interesting book, but unfortunately not the same one as indicated on the cover. Perhaps the title "Arcadia, and many tedious details about land use practices" could not get past the marketing department. There is very little here about the quarrel ...more |
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"It is easier to say what this novel isn't than the other way around. It isn't a comedy of manners—drama and tragedy is all around, although it has its share of humor. It isn't a romance—love and marriage, turns out, do not go together like a horse an"
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"Amazing! So difficult to put down!"
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This book is based on the movie, and the movie is based on a true story, so that means basically that it will qualify as . . . fiction. I don't remember the movie but read this novella today while I was waiting for something else, and I did not find i ...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.