If a maid service could clean her house in an hour or two a week, there was no reason why her family of six could not do the same.
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Book Review: The World’s Rarest Birds by Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swish, and Robert Still
In our ever photographic world, where satellite technology can reproduce an image from anywhere on the planet, and cell phone cameras are as plentiful as pocket change, it is hard to imagine any mundane image not captured by the lens of a camera. In the huge and exhaustive new book The World’s …
Read More »Book Review: Skios by Michael Frayne
Having written what may well be the finest and certainly the funniest theatrical farce of the last half of the 20th Century, Noises Off, Michael Frayne has now gone and done the same for the novel. Skios may not have the slamming doors, but even without them it is one …
Read More »Interview with Rosemary McCracken, Author of Black Water
Canadian journalist and mystery author Rosemary McCracken is here today to talk to us about her latest suspense novel, Black Water, just released by Imajin Books. Born and raised in Montreal, she has worked on newspapers across Canada as a reporter, arts reviewer, editorial writer and editor. She is now …
Read More »Book Review: Confronting the Classics: A Provocative Tour of What is Happening Now in the Classics by Mary Beard
A fine collection of essays that started life as book reviews.
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