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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: 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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Book Review: Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
What emerges is a character thorny, like an artichoke, all spikes and bitters except for at the deepest heart.
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Book Review: The Hanging of Angélique by Afua Cooper
As history with an edge and an agenda, Cooper's book is replete with undiscussed Canadian history,
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Book Review: When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton
I found myself in full-fledged last-minute English paper theory mode: Madeline is America! Buddy is the right! Mac is the left!
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Book Review: Consolation by Michael Redhill
Redhill's depiction of Toronto turns the city into a character, full of mystery, toil and sorrow underneath its modern varnish.
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Book Review: Curse of the Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald
With its historical and emotional depth, this is one of the best books I have read in 2006.
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Thank You, Neil Gaiman
"The most important thing, if you want to be a writer, is to finish."
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Book Review: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Is there a better kind of book than one that makes you want to sing?
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