Gail's Book Odyssey
Monday, November 5, 2007
So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
A good read - not great, but good. Excelllent prose. A bit of a mystery. I thought it ended with a bit of a whimper. Definitely an intimate portrayal but ultimately I'm not sure if this will resonate with many people.
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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
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biography
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page-turner
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science
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Canada
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Dysfunctional family
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Endangered animals
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Murder mystery
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Newfoundland
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One-day read
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United States
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World War II
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audiobook
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family
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love story
(2)
memoir
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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
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Hollywood
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Honest
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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)
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So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
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