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I listened to this on audio and that might not have been the best choice. Firstly, because I usually don't find audio to be as good of a medium for my first encounter with a novel, but also because the narrator's voice wasn't exactly what I would prefer to listen to. It wouldn't have been… Continue reading Listen to the Beat: On the Road by Jack Kerouac Review
In my teens, I compiled a personal "100 books to read before you die" list and decided I would read them within a year. Not sure why I thought that was necessary. While I didn't die by the end of the year, my joy in reading did. One of the better things that came out… Continue reading Reading Wrap-Up | 2026 First Quarter
I've seen the monument that supposedly inspired Laurence with the idea for the stone angel in Neepawa, MB, and this past July I went to a book sale at the Margaret Laurence House with my sister and her kids.
Until a few years ago, I'd heard the name Dorothy Sayers but never quite knew what she wrote. Then I happened upon a Lord Peter Wimsey story in a mystery anthology and the character and story has stuck with me ever since. Keeping my eye out for the rest of the series, the 3 for… Continue reading Round-Up Review: Three Recent Classics Club Reads
By all accounts, Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler on a deadline, ironically, to pay gambling debts. No better way to prove invention's parentage is necessity. I recently missed another Classics Club spin, only to realise I still haven't performed the function of reviewing my last Classics Club read for Spin #39. Hence the necessity of my… Continue reading Rye, Rabble, and Roulette: The Gambler Review
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