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February 5, 2021
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The adventure of the precious magazine (Bookends) There are so many Sherlock Holmes pastiches out there that the Conan Doyle estate can’t keep up.
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Hubble Pet Of The Week
January 29, 2021
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Two cases involving masters of deception (Bookends) The first thing to be said about the fifth Cormoran Strike/Robin Ellacott book is that a number of reviewers seem to have approached it with an eye to detecting some elements of Rowling’s musings about trans people in the text.
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Chanel Pet Of The Week
January 22, 2021
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Still On-Stage The annual Go Nuts show,
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Coming to grips with the denizens of the otherworld (Bookends) The best known of Charles de Lint’s work is set in and around a fictional town called Newford.
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Theia Pet Of The Week
January 15, 2021
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Castle reinterpreted for the written word (Bookends) Castle, described as a crime-comedy-drama (or dramedy) series, ran from the spring of 2009 to the spring of 2016.
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Manouane Pet Of The Week
January 8, 2021
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Kitty Pet Of The Week
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Tracking the many deceptions of Aunt Lydia (Bookends) If you’ve been feeling that you might need to read, or reread, Atwood’s classic 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, before venturing into its 2019 sequel, you can set your mind at ease.
December 30, 2020
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Where we are now and how we got here (Bookends) While many history books would be crammed full of dates and the details of specific events, Harari’s text contains what might be thought of as a 60,000-foot view of its subject.
December 24, 2020
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Ravens signal a death in mid-winter (Bookends) This is another of those cases where I decided to read the books after seeing the television version of the story.
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Bungee Pet Of The Week
December 18, 2020
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Rendezvous Rotary Club receives $10,000 donation The Rendezvous Rotary Club has received a $10,000 donation from Whiskey Jacks Pub/Big Bear Donair for the club’s local and international community service projects.
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When some kinds of death are not final (Bookends) Sometime in the near future, or perhaps in some alternate timeline, a miraculous thing happens. Anyone who is intentionally killed doesn’t stay dead.
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Lottie Pet Of The Week
December 11, 2020
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Exploring kids’ books for the Christmas season (Bookends) It’s Christmas Eve,
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Shylow Pet Of The Week
December 4, 2020
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Yukon Entertainer Nominated Yukoner Clair Ness’s Broccoli Farm children’s album has been nominated for the Children’s Album of The Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
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Two pulp heroes meet for the first time (Bookends) Before there were original comic books – because the first ones were reprints of newspaper adventure strips – there were pulp magazines, which featured short adventure and mystery novels as well as short stories.
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Storm Pet Of The Week.