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Review: From the Stage to the Page, Life Lessons From Four Funny Ladies

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Full disclosure: One of the four co-authors of this book is a friend of mine, Judy Croon.  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.   …

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Room – Book Review

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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- Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth

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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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