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 End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) by Lemony Snicket
This left me unsatisfied, like eating a tuna fish sandwich when what you really wanted was a cheeseburger.
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Book Review: Chronicles - Volume One by Bob Dylan
There is a sense that Dylan is creating his own mythology or, perhaps more accurately, adding to that which already exists.
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Book Review: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
With a good book, you can't see the trees for the forest. Bastard Out of Carolina is a dense wood indeed.
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Book Review: No god but God by Reza Aslan
A book so tightly packed with information that it threatens to burst: Aslan zooms through history as though he were a getaway driver.
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Movie Review: Snow Cake at the Toronto International Film Festival
This is a movie about accepting your demons, not about battling with them.
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Book Review: The Beatrice Letters (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
With the approach of The End, some thoughts on The Beatrice Letters, and the Series of Unfortunate Events in general.
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Book Review: Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer
By choosing to draw this world so specifically into his, Sawyer urges us to imagine what this world will become.
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Bye-Bye Tickle Trunk: The CBC Airs Final Episode of Mr. Dressup
It breaks my heart to think that there is no place for a friendly man, his puppet friends, crafts, songs, drawings, and dress-up.
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Book Review: Are Men Necessary? by Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd is searching for gender equality, truth in politics, and the perfect lipstick.
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Book Review: Spook by Mary Roach
Skeptcism, humour, and science make Mary Roach's look at post-mortem existence a supernaturally lively book.
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