Books Archives
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Spiders of Toronto
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Coming January 31, 2023:
Simon Sort of Says, by Erin Bow
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They Walked Like Capitalists
Clifford Simak's They Walked Like Men Reviewed
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"There Are Monsters in the Sea"
Eliza and her Monsters Reviewed.
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A Comedy of Manners
That Inevitable Victorian Thing Reviewed
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Osgoode as Gold
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My Dear Watson
A Study in Charlotte Reviewed
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Reviewed.
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Tell Me a Story
Kate Milford's The Green Glass House Reviewed.
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A Hero's Journey
J.M. Frey's The Untold Tale Reviewed
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The Art of Scorpions
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The Machine Stops
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Ruth Graham is Embarrassed that You Like Young Adult Novels So Much.
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Do You Ever Get the Impression that the Makers of this Book Series Have Given Up?
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Vivian Reads
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An Honest Assessment of What Star Wars Really Is
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Promoting Some Interesting Projects
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A Cover Reveal of Sorrow's Knot, by Erin Bow
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Hamlet Rewritten as a Choose Your Own Adventure Book
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Kate Thompson's The New Policeman Reviewed
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Angels and Tigers and Clowns, Oh My!
Jon Berkeley's The Palace of Laughter Reviewed
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Rebuilding the Library at Slave Lake
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Huzzah! (Philip Reeve's Larklight Reviewed)
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Rebel/Wayfarer Reviewed
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Plain Kate Reviewed in the New York Times
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Some Long Overdue Writing Business
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The Devil Came Down to Missouri
Kate Milford's The Boneshaker Reviewed
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A Sense of Closure
I Shall Wear Midnight, Reviewed
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For Queen and Country
The Hunchback Assignments, books one and two, reviewed
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Um... Who's Driving? (The Story, I Mean)
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Erin Launches Plain Kate at Waterloo's Words Worth Books This Afternoon
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A Guest Blog by Darby Christopher
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The Crowfield Curse Reviewed
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Oh, to be Banned in Alabama
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Scholastic Unveils Book Trailer for Plain Kate
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What is Steampunk?
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Updates on My Life
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Stoneheart Reviewed
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Flora Segunda
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If We Can Make It Here...
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Shortcuts to Success
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Erin's Plain Kate Debuts this September.
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The True Meaning of Smekday Reviewed
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Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals Reviewed
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The Magic Thief: Lost, Reviewed.
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Congratulations to Arthur Slade for Gaining a Hunchback
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Gods and Monsters and Titans, Oh, My!
(Percy Jackson and the Olympians Reviewed)
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"Fear Me. I Control the Mighty Black Olive"
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So, You Want to be a Wizard?
(The Young Wizards Series, Books 1-3, Reviewed)
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The Graveyard Book Reviewed
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Knife / Fairy Rebels: Spell Hunter Reviewed
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Pride and Prejudice. With Zombies.
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Getting to Know You...
(The Magic Thief Reviewed)
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And the Walls Come Tumbling Down (Again)
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Family Literacy Day
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Jolted, by Arthur Slade, Reviewed
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Perseus' Odyssey (The Sea of Monsters Reviewed)
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Terry Pratchett's Nation Reviewed
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Breaking the Sky
(Starclimber Reviewed)
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The People Behind the Politics of the Canadian Blogosphere - Week 4: Favourite Recipes
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BBAW: The Why of Blogging
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Ye, Gods! (The Lightning Thief Reviewed)
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Bite Me Stephanie Meyer!
(Twilight Reviewed)
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Beginning the Long Trip Home
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Small Gods
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The Man Who Should Be Prime Minister
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When Cities Roam No More
(A Darkling Plain Reviewed)
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I'll See Your Meme, and Raise You One
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Making PATHs
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Reviewed
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Philip Reeve's World, Sixteen Years Later
(Infernal Devices Reviewed)
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The Golden Compass: the Poop hits the Fan
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Prisoners in the Promised Land
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The Fall of Moist von Lipwig and the Rise of Ankh-Morpork
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007)
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Entering Pratchett's World
(Mort, Soul Music, the Hogfather and Thief of Time Reviewed)
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Searching for the next Harry Potter
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This City Lives
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Why Harry Potter Works
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Italo Calvino and Me
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Ice Dancing (Wintersmith Reviewed)
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Anchorage Returns to America
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Nancy Drew's Hip Granddaughter (Strange Times at Western High Reviewed)
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In Conversation with Kenneth Oppel
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Fairy Tales in Secret
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When Cities Walked the Earth (Mortal Engines Reviewed)
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Girl, 15, Charming but (not) Insane. Just Your Typical (funny) Teenager
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Edna Staebler (1906-2006)
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Harry Potter and the Fear of Christians
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Living Together (Milo's Wolves Reviewed)
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The Thief Lord
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Rainbow & Mr. Zed
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The Baby Bonus Has Arrived
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Mike Filey's Ninth Toronto Sketches Reviewed
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Deconstructing Dylan
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When Young Adult Fantasy Turns Adult (Hexwood Reviewed)
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Balyet
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Quick Hits - January 17
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Harry Potter Grows Up
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Time After Time (A Tale of Time City)
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A Hat Full of Sky
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Ach, Crivens! (Wee Free Men Reviewed)
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20,000 Leagues Above the Sea
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'Scuse me, while I break the sky!
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Speed Bumps Ahead
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Harry Potter and the Death of Trees
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Fifteen Conservatives Pick the Ten 'Most Harmful' Books of the Past Two Centuries
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Howl's Moving Castle
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TARDIS vs. Enterprise
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Why Are Zeppelins Making a Comeback in Children's Literature?
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Where's Harry Turtledove?
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Jay Currie is a Bigot?
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A Supporter of the Iraq War Repents
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Cloning Harry Potter
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Australia Rocks!
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We're Back!
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Important Books
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Fairy Tales in Secret
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Yesterday Was International Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Back to School
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I Have the G-G Winner In My Car (Well, Almost)
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The Order of the Phoenix and the Carpet
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Look Out! Here Comes Harry Potter!
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Ultramarine
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More Reviews, Reviews, Reviews
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Harry Potter and the Doorstop of Voldemort
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Neat Things
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Reviewing His Dark Materials Sequence V - Is Philip Pullman Really So Anti-Christian, and Why Do I Care?
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Reviewing His Dark Materials Sequence IV - Did Philip Pullman Really Kill God?
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Reviewing His Dark Materials Sequence III - Philip Pullman vs. Christianity
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Reviewing His Dark Materials Sequence II - Normal People (a.k.a. The Silent Majority of Christians, among others)
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Reviewing His Dark Materials Sequence I - Philip Pullman's Universe
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Pringles, Spam and Books
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Coraline
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John Ashcroft Reads?
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Daemon Sex!
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The Subtle Flaw
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Digging Into the Subtle Knife
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A Literary Minefield
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Back to School
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Random Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon
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If Only They'd Banned the Books at Alexandria Instead...
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Hats Off to Ursula K. LeGuin
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Well, It Blows.
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The Chronicles of Crestomanci Series Reviewed
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I Hate Slytherin For All the Wrong Reasons
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Tea With the Black Dragon
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An Acceptable Time Review
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A House Like a Lotus Review
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet Review
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A Wind in the Door Review
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A Wrinkle in Time Review
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Biography of the Murry-O'Keefe Family, from 1956-2001