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  • By Nightfall

    BY NIGHTFALL by Michael Cunningham (HarperCollins Canada), 256 pages, $29.99 cloth. Rating: NNNNIt's hard to write about a Michael Cunningham novel without comparing it to...
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  • Sharp Phin

    AMPHIBIAN by Carla Gunn (Coach House), 220 pages, $19.95 paper. Rating: NNNNNine-year-old Phineas Walsh, the narrator of Carla Gunn's Amphibian, makes you feel like you've...
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  • Smells good

    THE SHOW THAT SMELLS by Derek McCormack (ECW), 98 pages, $19.95 paper. Rating: NNNNHave I been drugged, or am I just reading Derek McCormack? I'm...
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  • A solid evening

    The IFOA house was packed tonight by the time Maeve Binchy's voice came over the loudspeaker. Groups of booklovers mixed with local authors like Catherine...
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  • Winning reads

    Last night I attended a reading by the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, a diverse mix of writers. Some I'm just discovering, like the...
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  • Through Black Spruce

    THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE by Joseph Boyden (Viking Canada), 256 pages, $34 cloth. Rating: NNNN Joseph Boyden's second novel is stunning at being a million things...
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  • Red Dog, Red Dog

    RED DOG, RED DOG by Patrick Lane (McClelland & Stewart), 332 pages, $32.99 cloth. Rating: NNNNSo you're one of Canada's most highly acclaimed poets, author...
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  • Patrick Lane

    PATRICK LANE reading tonight (Thursday, October 30), 8 pm, at the Brigantine Room.Though Patrick Lane is in his hotel room in Calgary and I'm uncomfortably...
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  • Conquering Oprah-book club phobia

    I made a festival rule after IFOA 2007: to only attend panel discussions, parties and Q&A's where the social gaffes, heated debates, and interesting insights...
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  • The 19th Wife

    THE 19TH WIFE by David Ebershoff (Random House), 515 pages, $30 cloth. Rating: NNNNPolygamy voices [rssbreak] Sex. Religion. Politics. Cults. Murder. Infamy. Good hooks, right?...
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  • San Fran survivor

    SO MANY WAYS TO SLEEP BADLY by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (City Lights), 256 pages, $15.95 paper. Rating: NNNNWhen I read the first chapter of the...
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  • Sad survivor

    INNERCITY GIRL LIKE ME by Sabrina Bernardo (HarperCollins Canada), 293 pages, $15.99 paper. Rating: NNOh, personal strife memoirs - you have a bad rep but...
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  • Dey lights up

    STUNT by Claudia Dey (Coach House), 200 pages, $19.95 paper. Rating: NNNNReading stunt is like arriving at a buffet where every dish on the table...
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  • Trials of Pauline

    TELL EVERYTHING by Sally Cooper (Dundurn), 216 pages, $21.99 cloth. Rating: NNNNTell Everything tells us everything – in selected, suspenseful, breathless segments – that makes...
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  • Withdrawals wit

    THE WITHDRAWAL METHOD by Pasha Malla (House of Anansi), 256 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNNPasha Mallas first book of stories features myriad characters with a...
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