I read books for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes I’ll pick up a book based on recommendations from friends. Other times, I’ll read a review or a reference to a book on line. Still at other times, I’ll wander through a book store and be… Read More
Torontonians have followed the story, in the Star, on Twitter, television, blogs and so on. Most of us who live here and are more or less conscious are aware of the key events. Robyn Doolittle’s book Crazy Town pulls it all together, and gives the… Read More
I’ve ordered my copy of Crazy Town by Robyn Doolittle – the Rob Ford story – and I can’t wait to read it. This has been the most spectacular term in Toronto politics in my memory and Star reporter Robyn Doolittle has been front and… Read More
One of our most excellent neighbours came by a few days ago and dropped off a bag of books for the book box. I replaced some of the books that have been in there for some time with new ones…..so if you haven’t been by… Read More
We’ve had a complaint about the book box. It seems with all this crazy cold weather the flow of books in and out has slowed down. One of our neighhbours told Tuffy P he has books for the book box but there is no room.… Read More
The Mushroom Hunters – On the Trail of an Underground America, by Langdon Cook, explores a foraging culture the extent of which I had never imagined. The massive extraction on tasty edibles from the woods of the mountain west is driven by popularity of local… Read More
The Last Policeman is a police procedural mystery thriller kind of novel with an unusual and clever premise. An asteroid is going to crash into the earth. People are checking out early – hanging themselves in bathrooms and closets. Others have abandoned jobs to chase… Read More
419 by Will Ferguson In the end I liked 419 quite a lot, although I felt the book sagged some in the middle. There are different threads going on, different stories, that get increasingly tied together. It’s about Nigeria and it’s about oil and it’s… Read More
Some readers will recall that we recently created the 27th Street Book Box out of junk and stocked it with a number of books. We’re very please at how the book box has been embraced in the neighbourhood. Lots of books have been both taken… Read More
We’ve added a new sign to the 27th Street book box….books rock! There has been quite a bit of activity in the box in the past few days with several book out and new ones in. Let’s have a look what’s in there today… I… Read More
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