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Monday, February 12, 2007
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Touching ... somewhat of an old-fashioned British read. Extremely well-written. Read it in one day, but am sure I will remember it for some time to come. Vivid details and characterization.
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A Librarian Reads the G&M Top 100 for 2006
Welcome to my attempt to read the Globe and Mail's Top 100 for 2006
Labels
Canadian fiction
(7)
History
(4)
Politics
(4)
Autobiogarphy
(3)
Canadian non-fiction
(3)
Changed my life
(3)
Climate change
(3)
biography
(3)
page-turner
(3)
science
(3)
Canada
(2)
Dysfunctional family
(2)
Endangered animals
(2)
Murder mystery
(2)
Newfoundland
(2)
One-day read
(2)
Terrorism
(2)
United States
(2)
World War II
(2)
audiobook
(2)
family
(2)
love story
(2)
memoir
(2)
mystery
(2)
non-fiction
(2)
personal memoir
(2)
poetry
(2)
Abolition
(1)
Afghanistan
(1)
Africa
(1)
Australia
(1)
Brilliant
(1)
Britain
(1)
British
(1)
Bush
(1)
CIA
(1)
Caribou
(1)
Colonialism
(1)
Coming of age
(1)
Cooking
(1)
Crippen
(1)
Global warming
(1)
Government
(1)
Hollywood
(1)
Honest
(1)
Internet
(1)
Iraq
(1)
Ireland
(1)
Islam
(1)
JFK
(1)
Japan
(1)
Life on earth
(1)
Logging
(1)
Marconi
(1)
Mob
(1)
Murder
(1)
Nature
(1)
New Brunswick
(1)
New York
(1)
Nova Scotia
(1)
Oil
(1)
Ontario
(1)
Orange Prize
(1)
Osama Bin Laden
(1)
Profound
(1)
Racism
(1)
Saddam Hussein
(1)
Sierra Leone
(1)
Slave trade
(1)
Species extinction
(1)
Terrorists
(1)
The American Revolution
(1)
The French Revolution
(1)
adventure
(1)
autobiograhical
(1)
book club
(1)
books
(1)
canadian politics
(1)
characterization
(1)
comedy
(1)
computer geeks
(1)
depression
(1)
disaster
(1)
experimental novel
(1)
foreign fiction
(1)
graphic novel
(1)
gripping read
(1)
intelligent
(1)
librarian
(1)
lumbermen
(1)
medicine
(1)
paul martin
(1)
philosophy
(1)
prison
(1)
professional librarian
(1)
reading
(1)
realistic
(1)
royalty
(1)
scholarly
(1)
small-town life
(1)
software
(1)
stephen harper
(1)
strange
(1)
weird
(1)
well-written
(1)
wireless telegraphy
(1)
wonderful
(1)
Blog Archive
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2006
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December
(1)
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2007
(44)
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January
(8)
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February
(7)
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Dodecahedron or A Frame for Frames by Paul Gle...
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
My Heart is Africa: A Flying Adventure by Scott Gr...
jPOD by Douglas Coupland
State of War - The Secret History of the CIA and t...
Dead Cold by Louise Penny
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March
(1)
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April
(8)
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May
(2)
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September
(11)
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October
(3)
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November
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December
(2)
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