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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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As offbeat as you might imagine. Whimsical writing, genre-crossing plotlines.
I was the Santa Claus of literature those Christmases that I worked in a bookstore.
There is an overwhelming, post-Whoville-sized heart in this novel.
What emerges is a character thorny, like an artichoke, all spikes and bitters except for at the deepest heart.
As history with an edge and an agenda, Cooper's book is replete with undiscussed Canadian history,
I found myself in full-fledged last-minute English paper theory mode: Madeline is America! Buddy is the right! Mac is the left!
Redhill's depiction of Toronto turns the city into a character, full of mystery, toil and sorrow underneath its modern varnish.
With its historical and emotional depth, this is one of the best books I have read in 2006.
"The most important thing, if you want to be a writer, is to finish."
Is there a better kind of book than one that makes you want to sing?
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