Name: Bonnie
Weblog: lit.fictionary.ca
Articles: 73
First Published: Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Last Published: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Currently listing articles 73-51:
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Book Review: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon— The story is full of twists and turns, perils and triumphs and it is populated by a collection of questionable characters.
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Book Review: The Geography of Hope by Chris Turner— An environmental evangelical, not of sin and eternal fires of ecological collapse, but of virtue and paradise promised by change.
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Book Review: The Fearsome Particles by Trevor Cole— Wickedly funny and searingly painful.
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Book Review: Not a Happy Camper by Mindy Schneider— Thirteen is a backwoods place, a make-do place, where you find your own amusement. Like Mindy Schneider's summer camp.
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Book Review: This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin— Levitin's curiosity allows the reader to share in not just an increased understanding of music, but also a sense of wonder.
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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling— From a storytelling point of view, the saga is fittingly, satisfyingly and conclusively complete.
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Book Review: 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen— Reading Stephanie Nolen's book is a key step to increasing understanding.
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Book Review: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk— Chuck Palahniuk still has surprises up his sleeve.
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Book Review: American Youth by Phil LaMarche— American Youth isn't so much a book about guns as it is one about cultural conflict and change.
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Book Review: Bang Crunch by Neil Smith— Smith clearly loves the world in it's messy, car accident glory: Bang Crunch is an onomatopoeia of what it feels like to be alive.
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Book Review: The Acadians: In Search of a Homeland by James Laxer— Acadian history is compelling stuff. Or, rather, it could be.
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TV Review: Homefront (Global Currents)— A glimpse into the family side of military life and the stress, strength and fear of those at home.
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Book Review: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert— Funny. Fascinating. Illuminating. The psychology of happiness makes for an excellent read.
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Book Review: The Physics of the Buffyverse by Jennifer Ouellette— The book feels like a coffee klatch, except instead of discussing Buffy's hair, it's about the rules of the universe itself.
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Book Review: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill— A great ghost story, a driving plot and a reminder of the ghosts with whom we all keep company.
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Book Review: Birds of America by Lorrie Moore— Moore writes stories that lay you flat as you move from absurdity to tragedy to the quotidian with diamond-edged wit.
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Book Review: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi— An autobiographical graphic novel that explores a childhood in Iran during the turbulent years surrounding the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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Book Review: Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet by Carol Off— The book succeeds as an educational overview, offering a tour of colonialism via the particulars of the cocoa business.
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Book Review: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam— Reading these stories is like peering through the ice; there is a coldness and a distance but also something flowing deep below.
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Book Review: Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper— This memoir is shark-like, moving constantly, never staying on himself any longer than necessary, focussing on the news and his reactions to it.
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Book Review: I Have a Bed of Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty— As offbeat as you might imagine. Whimsical writing, genre-crossing plotlines.
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Books Are Easy to Wrap— I was the Santa Claus of literature those Christmases that I worked in a bookstore.
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Book Review: Good Omens by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman— There is an overwhelming, post-Whoville-sized heart in this novel.
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