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This is fantastic. I am inspired and enjoy every sentence, photograph, and page of this. I am going to give it five stars and will enjoy explaining why to review readers. It also makes me happy that this very local book, which was only listed in the Goodreads database without a photo until I supplied it, is becoming known through folks who have been visiting my updates. Everyone would enjoy this fundraiser story.

Wow, this is good! I trotted to 40 pages at 3:00 in the morning! I meant to try a few pages to see how I like Rhys Bowen before going to sleep. I am not a cozy fan, due to encountering a lot of weak writing and plotting. Years ago, when I picked up any mystery that looked good, at a bargain, I accumulated a scattering of her novels. I saw that I have the first book I need for this series. I dove in and love it!

Peter J. Peters was an innovator in Manitoba's agriculture. He raised the popularity of our potato and strawberry markets. He loved nature and was always grateful to Canada, as a child immigrant from a war. Hardly anyone has heard of him outside of Manitoba. The three of his poetry books that are in the Goodreads database are through me.

This is beautiful, inspiring, impressive, and special. I am more proud of Winnipeg and Cancer Care Manitoba and our local artists now, than I was when I was observing The Bears Of Broadway in person in 2005. I had no knowledge of what they are about and was as impressed as anyone, at seeing 62 concrete bears and their art in its own right. I would love to look at some of them again where they have come to roost.

A very local self-published poet, who was an innovator in Manitoba's agriculture. He raised the popularity of our potato and strawberry market most notably. He loved nature and was always grateful to Canada, as a child immigrant from a war. Hardly anyone has heard of him nowadays and no one outside of Manitoba. Three of his poetry books are in this database through me.

This lady needs to desist with the word gentle. Another comment is that an action fan would say there isn't much of it in this novel, until the page I have reached. In regards to finding out information, it has all come down to people gradually telling the story. It is no thrill that several of them can tell all when they choose. It is less mystery-solving than staying strong and patient. Things may pick up now.

This is a pleasure, learning experience, and stirrer of local pride that I did not anticipate. I knew it would be pleasant, informative, and nostalgic book when I spotted it at a second-hand shop, without knowing it is a special limited edition. The story is told warmly, engagingly, and proudly;
showcasing the artists, the technical and logistical puzzles to solve for this fundraiser, and its Canadian milestones.

There was hardly any progress because my cute thirteen year-old tabby, Spirit, wanted to cuddle under the covers. He has started doing that while Conan has been missing over the winter. It is as if Conan telepathically asked his Dad figure, Spirit, to do that for me while he was away and it does cheer me up! I enjoyed Spirit's cuddle Conan-style and slept. This novel will zoom along easily next time I reprise it.

A treat to myself: buying a brand new trade paperback book! I am enjoying it. I must correct: even though Constance Walker switched the title a little, this was published in 1991. Not quite in the era of classic gothic mysteries I loved from the 1960s to 1980s but close to it. I want to point out that this is not a newly-created fabrication of the gothic style. It was published just after the genre's key time.

I really am enjoying this novel, well out of subjects I read. It depicts Americsan history, a little south of us, using a fictional vehicle and the fabulous Dorothy Gilman published it in 1963. Well, like any great action adventure, the pace and interest rise and "Bells Of Freedom" becomes more riveting as it progresses. I certainly look forward to continuing and finishing it tonight without nodding off this time.

I did not expect to enjoy this as much as I am. I should stop being surprised that legends like Dorothy Gilman and Phyllis A. Whitney can get even Canadians, interested in someone else's history. In this case, it is the British revolution with the United States in 1774. Our perspective is how an indentured boy from England feels and what he learns about what the politics and war in "Boston town" mean for everyone.

HAPPY EASTER AND GOD'S BLESSINGS, TO ALL OF MY FRIENDS, LITERARY PEERS, AND KITTY AND ANIMAL ADVOCATES! YOURS, CAROLYN. XOXOXOXO.

A lot of my new peers are nuts about Lisa Ginova's books about diseases. She is a neuroscientist who can speak to how they work and how they are prevented (Alzheimer's: a good deep sleep, Mediterranean or vegetarian diet, exercise, learning new things)! But her goal was an inside personal look to provide firsthand empathy. I've just seen her on "The Social". Easy to download today's Canadian talk show interview.

Wow, this was under consideration for five stars and just veered off. That is impressive when I can't stand sad or dreary topics. I appreciated the fresh perspective of Canadian and world-wide history and how well Hugh wrote an intelligent, confident, successful career woman of 1917.

Confrontations are going to be good! I'll tell you what, Hugh must have highly respected his wife and Mom. I feel his portrayal of two main females is extraordinary for 1941. Penny is not only storming in to have words with her bold colonel father. She refuses to doubt she has spotted on a bus, the fiancé people claim was dead. Hugh's descrption of trusting her instincts is a lesson in impressive self-assurance!

Well! This has twists you don't expect, especially in a 1941 novel about 1918! Describing Canadian living and our various mentalities to the world is important and sadly still needed. What I'm learning here is a wartime feeling, I am grateful I couldn't know, which Hugh MacLennan lived through twice. What only Halifax knows is what their special, complex, and nautically essential niche in the world was like then.