I’d like to recommend a couple of books for 10-12 year olds. They were a couple that I really enjoyed when I first read them and continue to read even now. Redwork by Michael Bedard is the first book I remember feeling a sense of accomplishment after reading. This is not to say it was [...]
I went to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival today and met some really neat people. All the webcomic artists were smushed together into the Beeton Auditorium (which had been titled Beaton on the TCAF signs either by mistake or in homage to Kate Beaton). There were about 30 artists/hangers on manning (personing?) the tables and [...]
I finally managed to get around to dealing with the results of The Purge today. St. Catharines has one really good used bookstore (with two locations) and one rather crummy one. I heaved my large box of books to the good one this afternoon. Hannelore Headley is a really sweet and rather old lady who [...]
Today is the first of the lightning reviews. These are going to be quick reviews of five or so items, sometimes physical, sometimes a bit more ethereal. Today’s are fairly physical objects. I will do a quick review of the first five books I happen to grab out of my bookshelf. Normally this is where [...]
As a result of The Purge a while ago, my bookshelves look, if not sparse, at least well kept. There is a general lack of untidiness in the bookal regions of the house and I am digging it. In order to keep it this way, we’ve decided to make as much use of the library [...]
Carrying on from yesterday, this is the balance of the 13 books from the BBC’s 100 books list via Facebook.
A little while ago on Facebook (the source of many interesting surveys), I was tagged in a ‘have you read these books’ note by my sister-in-law. It’s a list of 100 books that most people ‘should have’ read. She scored 43 out of the hundred. I managed 13 which is just over twice the six [...]
No, I’m not bulimic. I’ve been wanting to declutter the basement some and I’m also trying to follow the ‘get one new thing, get rid of something else’ school of home maintenance. Last night we went to Home Depot and Lee Valley to get gardening stuff and as a result, I’m getting rid of an [...]
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