Bonnie writes about books every Thursday at Fourth-Rate Reader, about everything else at Signifying Nothing, and sometimes she resorts to pictures. She lives in Toronto.
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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.
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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