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Man on a white horse?

Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Aside from the feisty old lady who rules her old farm house, it is about the Scottish clearances - and the exodus to NS and other parts of Canada. It is about an old woman notified by a man on a white horse that she is about to be kicked out of her farmhouse. It is very poetic with rural images that last and has elements of Brian Moore's "Lonely passion of Judith Hearne" and Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel".

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Dad's jokes are still 'dad' jokes (in the 1850's?)

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dad's jokes are still 'dad' jokes.

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Haliburton V Olympic Poetry Promo

Haliburton V - coming to Leytonstone Library in East London August 1st-3rd
Just confirmed for Friday 3rd: London poet Dzifa Benson and Vancouver Olympic poet Pricilla Uppal, plus special guests.

First Review! Here. Oh! Wick me, right out. Yikes!