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A Stupendous achievement. Searing in its intensity, savage in its self-indictment, and yet so incredibly tender in its love!

Again, I'm pretty lucky sometimes - this first novel that I picked up to read in 2022 will probably turn out to be the BEST.

PHENOMENAL writing!

The plot thickens - and boy, does it thicken. The Brennans are in deep kaka. But this family has always had more than their share of trouble and heartbreak, so we're all PULLING FOR THEM! And this family will make it, come heck or high water...

Miss Marple never ceases to amaze and amuse us - now, most comfortingly with the long Christmas holiday at its quiet, listless end. So the good cheer never ends!

Edinger is thoroughly acquainting me with the MYSTERIES OF MY OWN MIND. Highly recommended!

There is so much practical compassion in this hurting Canadian novel, it's as if time stood still.

An Account of the Mexican and Civil War which fairly leaps from the pages in the nonstop onrush of its narrative, yet graced by a superb literary style.

Nurse Ratched sits like a Queen Bee in her Hive, knowing all too well that McMurphy is plotting palace revolution! She’s gonna ratchet up the heat, for sure…

Remarkably touching. So much poignancy with so few words!

Hilarious Hamish MacBeth mystery - free to members on Audible.

Preparing for war with Mexico. What a refreshment it is - after all the madcap garish hype of the Season - to read such plodding, well-crafted though pedestrianly simple prose as Grant's!

Tonight I read a mildly hallucinogenic rhapsody dealing first, with Houston's megachurch faithful, and how being lulled by them into a state of semi-mystical ecstasy, she segued over time into experience with the street drug of that name. It first ran in the New Yorker a few years back, and so succeeds in taking my habitual navel gazing in my own reviews to a position of dopey invulnerability I bought THIS.

Scathingly direct attack on psychiatric brutality in the sixties!

Excellent.

What captivating fantastical tales!

Seniors Sleuth Winston Wong is now CONVINCED foul play was a factor in the Seniors Residence death. All of the Seniors have consented to fingerprinting... Except ONE. Will the unknown murderer strike again? ...Delightful cozy mystery!

A delightfully laid-back and sunny mystery by Jennifer Chow (hats off to her, folks!) about PI Winston Wong, who is investigating a murky murder in a seniors residence. Charmingly light, and a great escape from Yuletide lunacy in the stores!

A darkly delightful and intricate whodunit! Miss Marple shines throughout.

A Christmas Treat!

A truly enjoyable work!

The deeply conflictual clash of two indominatible Titans. Kesey's relentlessly driving prose lends horrendous, clinical detail to the classically tragic film!

Wonderful book, and Peterson gives his translation crackling life!

The Commencement of a Wonderful new novel sequence. I am enjoying this one so much, that I even added it to my ‘Santa’ list for my young great-nephew on Vancouver Island!

An enormously powerful collection of Girard's theories on the foundation of the Monolith that is the Bible.

THIS is how they Used to write books! A real, gut-wrenching heart warmer of a story about one man’s mission to save the world - ONE POOR KID AT A TIME!

TREMENDOUS Book, and Rachel’s Last Will and Testament to a badly battered world. Who among us in this modern circus has not noticed, at our coming of age, a major interruption to our tepid churchgoing?

If you’re like that,this book may be the magnet that draws you back to your church…

This amazing book of CBC interviews with the seminal thinker Rene Girard scores a direct hit to our complacency!

NOT a book to make one look forward to one’s last days!