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Mark’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark Lisac
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Where the Bodies Lie
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Red Hill Creek
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2021
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Alberta Politics Uncovered: Taking Back Our Province
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2004
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Dream Home
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The Klein Revolution
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1995
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Lois Hole Speaks: Words that Matter (University of Alberta Centennial Series)
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2004
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Image Decay
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The Red Car
Something reminded me today of the 1954 Don Stanford novel titled The Red Car. I read it probably when I was somewhere between 10 and 13 years old. As happened with other boys of that era — you can see the evidence in reviews on Goodreads and Amazon — it influenced my life forever. The book tells the story of a 16-year-old who restores a somewhat wrecked 1948 MG TC. He has help from a foreign-trai
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| The plot is thin. The sub-plots include a lot of family soap opera and quickly sketched spy skullduggery. But that's all really just a scaffold on which to load the rich descriptions of naval lore circa 1810 or so, and dialogue that sounds like it be ...more | |
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| An 82-year-old Maud Horsham keeps trying to find out why her friend Elizabeth is missing, and is still wondering why her sister disappeared some 70 years ago. Looking for answers is tough going because her short-term memory has a horizon of about 20 ...more | |
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"I’ve finished reading this book and the first thing I can think ofit is: disorder.
Yes, confusion and disorder in exposing a story even brilliant but absolutely exhausting for the structure given: the Maud's first-person narrative with senile dementi" Read more of this review » |
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"Despite what the many blurbs on the cover say, this is not a thriller. It has nothing to do with Gillian Flynn's 'Gone Girl' (gosh, what a terrible comparison!). This is just a story of an old lady with dementia, who has become obsessed that her frie"
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"Did I read the same book as other reviewers?!?!?! This book was horrible, annoying, repetitive and wayyyyyy too drawn out. I love a good mystery and found myself not even caring what happens to Elizabeth, or Sukey, or ANY character in this book, beca"
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| Rounded up from 3.5 stars because it's better than a number of books I've given 3. A decent mystery but with detective Martin Beck getting too much sudden, suspiciously easy access to information. At times the writing style seems a tad formulaic too ...more | |
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| Something about the writing kept me going, hence the 2 stars, but I was thinking all the way through this was pretty bad and stayed to the end mostly because it's short. Agreed with the review that was headlined "the artist as snowflake." An argument ...more | |
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| A decent enough police procedural, although the writing is workmanlike at best, with long expository passages that sound like mansplaining at worst. The bigger problem is that the mystery is overwhelmed by endless references to the way that DS George ...more | |
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| It reads like a novel by an unhappy man. He saw acutely the foibles of people who put on a good front or are generously misunderstood, and the pretensions of British society in the early 19th century. The book is full of wit. But the wit often tends ...more | |
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| Rating this at 4 stars is a bit of a stretch because all the stories are lightweight comedies, notwithstanding the frequent elements of satire set in Barcelona and area. They are all framed as amusing crime stories (there are frequent episodes of vio ...more | |
“… and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die — to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-grey eyes — and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn" (R. Fagles translation)”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“If there is a moral in this book, it is not my fault. If there is social relevance, it crept in without alerting me, in which case I would have hit it with a stick." (from preface to a later edition of the novel)”
― Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse
― Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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“In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that’s constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences: in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
