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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: 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.
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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