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Doug Jordan
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Born
Peterborough, Canada
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Influences
Mark Twain, Stephen Leacock, Peter Mayle;
Antonio Damaso, Martin Selig ...more
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February 2012
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The Maxim Chronicles
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The Treasure of Stella Bay
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2021
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The Dynamics of Management
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2016
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The Hallelujah Chorus
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2017
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Alex' Choice
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Amitié, A Novel
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Travels With Myself
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2020
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My Story, Mostly
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Beyond the Gate: Poetry and Photography
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25.24 Wilkins Micawber’s Principle
I shared an office with a distinguished older gentleman who was many times more, or less, the man than met the eye. A smaller man but a towering intellect, immaculately dressed, and a sly sense of humour, with a propensity for lickerous limericks.
His Nibs and the author, New Year’s Eve 2018JFW came from a privileged family and enjoyed a comfortable life growing up in the 1940s Toronto. Privileged
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An academic treatise on the role of literature in forming the structures and myths of modern civilization and societies, particularly Canadian. Fascinating and challenging to read, yet in many ways engaging, this slim volume of lectures is a defence ...more |
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Second reading, 60 years later. Obviously a classic in the mystic poetry genre this allegorical book of self-indulgent speculation has little to say to me today, even if it ever did six decades ago. New age moralizing which may have been novel when f ...more |
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World:
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McGilchrist, despite his erudition and stamina in writing this brick of a book, may have missed the mark. Besides the fact that it is over 700 pages of text (not including notes, bibliography or index) and in 9 point font (or maybe even smaller) maki ...more |
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| The good thing about this book is, I learned a few things, always a desirable thing in a book. I didn’t know there was an Act of Oblivion (and what a name for an act) and that when Royalists installed Charles II on the throne there was a concerted ef ...more | |
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A page turner. Perhaps typical of May, dark and flawed characters. Some plot situations are unlikely or a stretch. Some superb sentences and the occasional surprise humour. |
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“I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.”
― More Happy Than Not
― More Happy Than Not
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
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“But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.”
― Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
― Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
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