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BAGNE or CRITERIA for HEAVEN
Rob Mclennan. BAGNE or CRITERIA for HEAVEN. Broken Jaw, 2000. I was reading his Substack about his mother being a poet in Ottawa and befor...
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Jane Austen's Persuasion Believe it! Cover design matters. An old painting on a Penguin cover of Jane Austen's PERSUASION hooks m... -
Bully for You Can you believe it? I just heard it on the news--that still at least a third of the school districts (meaning countless number...
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May 31, 2017 Bill Bryson. A Short History of Private Life. Doubleday, 2010. This is my third Bryson, 450 pages of information about the ...
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A friend responded that Canadian content would not be high on her list. I realize how much I benefited by having my university years coincide with all the Centennial hoopla--Pride. Identity. etc. But also, as a former English teacher, I really feel that the absence of knowledge about Canadian literature is a reflection of the failure of our education system. Outdated, borrowed from imperial nations UK & USA, by colonized minds who think literature is the writing of dead people from other places, a canon, rather than a living art created by real people helping other real people understand themselves and their place in the world.
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