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
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
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
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
After watching three seasons of Justified, I got around to reading Raylan, one of the Elmore Leonard books featuring the Raylan Givins character. If you’ve watched the series there is little new here, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll place the actors in the… Read More
The Foxfire series of books was compiled from what was originally a magazine called Foxfire . A fellow named Eliot Wigginton started it with his 9th and 10th grade English classes in 1966 in the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia at the consolidated Rabun County… Read More
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