I just read The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens. It’s a Governor General’s award winner from 2006. I came across it in our shelves when I was l picking some books to use to start the Twenty-Seventh Street Book Box. Tuffy P said she… Read More
I heard today that crime fiction writer Elmore Leonard has died at age 87. Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing: 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. 4. Never use an… Read More
The book box sits outside our place on lower 27th Street in Long Branch Ontario. It’s the house with the canoe garden and the giant mosaic owl. Ya can’t miss it. The book box is now featuring an excellent selection of titles… Check out Deadwood… Read More
Old City Hall is the first of four novels by Robert Rotenberg featuring the character Detective Ari Green, along with a few other recurring characters. I gobbled them up in more or less reverse order. Like the others, this was a highly readable mystery with… Read More
We just installed the 27th St. Book Box. Raw materials are (mostly) from Nice Old Stuff in Jarvis Ontario. The book box is always open. Take a book. Enjoy it. Keep it or return it. Drop off a book anytime. It’s our own lower 27th… Read More
I don’t recall how I found out about Stranglehold by Robert Rotenberg. Maybe I heard an interview with the author or read a review. I do know that whatever it was caused me to write down “Read Stranglehold Robert Rotenberg Toronto mystery” in my trusty… Read More
Having just finished By Blood by Ellen Ullman, I’m about to start Canada by Richard Ford. I don’t know much about it except that it is about the life of a teen-aged boy whose parents rob a bank, and that it was published last year… Read More
I started reading By Blood by Ellen Ullman on my road-trip and finished it up tonight. Ms. Ullman challenges us early on to suspend our disbelief with a premise that might seem overly contrived, but I bought in and was well rewarded with a somewhat… Read More
I just finished a re-read of one of my favourite books, Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver. I suspect while some of you know the book, more readers are familiar with the Otto Preminger film starring Jimmy Stewart as Polly Biegler, Ben Gazarra as… Read More
A book arrived in this morning’s mail, from my friend CB. He’s had this kicking around his place for many years and when he saw my oil can banjos, he decided to send it my way. It’s called Musical Instruments made to be played by… Read More
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