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Book Reviews

Posts on book I’ve read and enjoyed. I’m not much of a critic, so generally I just dole out a bunch of praise.

The road to god knows…

France and I popped in on Von Allan’s book launch for The road to god knows… last Sunday to grab a few copies for the store and to get one for ourselves.   We ended up staying longer than anticipated and had a wonderful chat with the author himself on a number of subjects including, one of [...]

Poetry Galore!!

There seemed to have been a groundswell of poetry wandering into the shop over the past week.  We recieved late last week the fourth volume in the Porcupine’s Quill Essential Poets Series which provides an excellent selection of James Reaney’s work (review to come shortly).  Then the weekend saw two great poetry events take place in town, the first being a [...]

No Frills – Science Fiction!

I got this book about a year ago with a large lot of Sci-fi and have always kept it off to the side as a go to now and then for a good chuckle.  I’ve mentioned it to a few friends, but feel it is time to do a post.  I read it again this afternoon, as [...]