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Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones

Posted in JK's Reviews, tagged , , on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is on fire.”
This endearing quotation appears prominently on the [...]

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Barney’s Version, by Mordecai Richler

Posted in JK's Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on October 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, The 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Giller prize, I had some pretty high expectations for Barney’s Version – and I am happy to say they were met, if not exceeded.  With his trademark acerbic wit, Richler has created an intolerant, cantankerous, curmudgeonly old man that is [...]

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