A Partial Review
Some might say it really isn’t fair to slag someone’s memoir before I’m even done reading the whole thing but – holy Hannah – I’m three chapters in and I’m already tempted to skip several pages at a time! Â …
Reviews
Review: The Double
Our friend Eddie is a man of truly rare talents. Â He’s an incredible mimic and voice artist and you won’t find a funnier guy on the planet. Â …
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Although I purchased some current books for my Kobo ereader, it also came with a selection of free classics to download. Â I’m currently reading one I’ve always meant to get around to: Uncle Tom’s Cabin. …
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Review: From the Stage to the Page, Life Lessons From Four Funny Ladies
Full disclosure: One of the four co-authors of this book is a friend of mine, Judy Croon. Â Judy has been a stand-up comic for a long time and you’ve probably seen her on The Comedy Channel or CBC or any number of other places including clubs across the continent. Â …
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Review: Stephen King’s 11/22/63
It’s been years since I picked up a Stephen King novel but he has been churning them out as regularly as ever. …
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Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Paris Wife is a fictionalized account of some very real lives written by poet and second-time novelist Paula McLain. Â …
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“The Worst Family in the World”
Much has been written about soul-less Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and his ravenous greed. Â However, a new book aims to give us an inside look at Bernie’s entire family and how disgusting, sad, mean and gluttonous they all were, as a unit. Â …
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A Fair Experience
It’s corny (and corn-doggy) but I love the Western Fair. …
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No Dilemma Here
The Dilemma is packed with star-power: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Oscar-winner Jennifer Connolly, Winona Ryder. It was directed by Ron Howard, so one’s expectations kind of rise, even though it didn’t make much of a box office buzz.    …
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
In Chapters last week I had planned only to buy SuperFreakonomics after it was recommended to me by someone who has also enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw and Outliers.  But they had a buy-3-get-1-free sale on throughout the store and books never go stale, so, I took advantage. …
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The Hangover, Too
The guys from the most successful R rated film ever, The Hangover, are back in The Hangover II. And this time they have a monkey! …
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Review: What the Dog Saw
OK I’m a little late to the party on this best-seller by Malcom Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. It’s already in soft-cover and still on the top sales lists. …
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Room – Book Review
If you browse bookstores, check the best-seller lists or read about literary awards you already know that London-based novelist Emma Donoghue has won the Rogers’ Writers Trust Fiction Prize here in Canada and a major literary award in her native Ireland. She missed out on the Man Booker Prize but her latest novel, Room, is the third best-selling book in Canada right now. …
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Review: Last Night at Chateau Marmont
The Devil Wears Prada had a strong influence on me. Author Lauren Weisberger’s snappy, exciting writing inspired me to tackle fiction. The Devil Wears Prada, as you probably know, became a hit movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It’s clever, sharp and its characters crackle with life. …
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Review- Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth
A lot of women don’t view food the way I do. It has often baffled me when people load several mayo-laden salads onto their plates and don’t even blink. They buy real ice cream and ignore the fat content printed on the side. They walk into a grocery store and believe that it’s possible to choose to eat every single item on every single shelf, except for what they don’t like. For me, food has always fallen into two categories: enemy or treat.  I will look at the ice cream that I really want and buy the low-fat, low-taste stuff instead. That’s how I’ve been for a long, long time. …
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Sarah Silverman Disappoints
Comedian Sarah Silverman’s first book was a letdown. …
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One Line Review: The Hurt Locker
First let me say that it’s very cool that this film’s director, Katherine Bigelow, became the first woman ever to win a Best Director Oscar. …
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The Story of Anvil
This documentary came out about a year ago. We watched it just recently after a recommendation from a colleague. It’s a very good movie. …
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