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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. At 6:00 pm this evening, the Governor General of Canada, David Johnston, will be presenting 14 winners with literary awards. Eleanor Catton. Will be among the recipients of Canada’s highest literary honour for her historical suspense novel The Luminaries. A departure from her previous novel, The Luminaries. The narrative threads may not always be tied up perfectly, but there a...
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: The Fruit Hunters by Yung Chang
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. The Fruit Hunters by Yung Chang. Directed by Yung Chang. Noris Ledesma, Member of the Rare Fruit Council Int'l. A gray November day calls for an adventure! Presented at the 14th annual Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal. On coveted property in the Hollywood Hills. Indigenous Guide in Borneo. Based on Adam Gollner’s best-selling book, The Fruit Hunters. Takes a step away from the documentary...
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: Jimmy Beaulieu's Bikini
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. Here's a review I wrote for the Summer 2014 issue of the Montreal Review of Books. Because the following graphic novel was pretty slim, I spent some time at the public library reading other works by Jimmy Beaulieu. He definitely dares to be an innovator, and I'm sure that there are people "borrowing" some of his unique ideas. I particularly enjoyed his take on body image, both male and female. Showcased Beauli...
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: Review of Lily and Taylor by Elise Moser
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. Review of Lily and Taylor by Elise Moser. When the Lily and Taylor meet at a local high school, they discover that they have something in common- both their mothers had been in car crashes. While Taylor's mother died, Lily's mother survived, but the head injuries she sustained often require Lily to act as the parent. Is the raw account of two teenage girls negotiating a far from perfect world. In spite of ...
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: 2014: So Many Good Books So Little Time
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. 2014: So Many Good Books So Little Time. I felt a little overwhelmed when I read the National Post's 25 of the most anticipated books of 2014. By Margaret Atwood, publisher and release date to be announced. Last year was a great year for short fiction with Alice Munro's Nobel Prize. As a lover of short fiction, I'm looking forward to Margaret Atwood's Stone Mattress. I can't wait to see. S is a collection of c...
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: My Mother, the Nazi Midwife and Me by Gina Roitman
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. My Mother, the Nazi Midwife and Me by Gina Roitman. Gina Roitman: Photo by Lynn Hatwin. We've all heard stories from our mothers, stories that made us feel uncomfortable or that we rolled our eyes at. As young girls, the tales were often too far removed from our own experiences to have any meaning. Germans could be as horrible as her mother said, something that infuriated her mother. Roitman's parents met at a...
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: Bombay Wali and other stories
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. Bombay Wali and other stories. Bombay Wali and other stories. A former Bombay journalist, Veena Gokhale. My favourite in the collection is “Zindagi Itefaq Hai” (Life is Chance). Vishwanath Iyer is an investigative journalist at The Disquieter. This has been cross-posted at Rover Arts. The World is Moving Around Me. By Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi. By Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Bombay Wali and other stories.
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier. This review was initially published in the Globe and Mail. Author of the bestselling Girl With a Pearl Earring. Tracy Chevalier has set her seventh book in her native United States, for the first time. The novelist, who has lived in Britain for 30 years, has chosen to write about the tumultuous pre-Civil War period. Honor’s in-laws are abolitionists, but because of pa...
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns: Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns. An inquisitive look at our urban planet. Follow me on Twitter. Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado. The gift of a book can change the course of a child’s life,” writes Ania Szado. In the acknowledgments of her recent historical novel Studio Saint-Ex. Szado is referring to The Little Prince. By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Which she received as a gift at age 11. This is when the seed of Studio Saint-Ex. E in 1943 and has created his character and that of his estranged wife, Consuelo.
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