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May 1, 2020
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Pelly Pet Of The Week
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Stories about finding a way to fit in (Bookend) Lots of books for the very young have messages in them, or are intended to impart some sort of lesson.
April 24, 2020
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Adventures in Neverland, 50 years later (Bookends) Peter Pan, thanks to Walt Disney, is an iconic story about a boy who didn’t want to grow up, and Neverland is the place where he is at home and enabled to stay young.
April 17, 2020
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Presenting two shades of noir detection (Bookends) I decided to read some noir private eye fiction after getting interested in the TV mini-series Briarpatch, based loosely on Ross Thomas’s novel of the same name, which I read decades ago.
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Winston Pet Of The Week
April 9, 2020
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Seasonal detours make life interesting (Uffish Thoughts) It sort of rained a bit last Sunday afternoon; sodden flakes of snow that became tinier and lighter until they were mostly wet blotches.
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Ellery Queen sort of meets Sherlock Holmes (Bookends) The history of A Study in Terror is interesting in that it started out as a Sherlock Holmes mystery movie, in which Holmes tracks down Jack the Ripper.
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Magnus Pet Of The Week
April 3, 2020
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A therapist conducts a search for a killer (Bookends) We meet Danielle Rycroft in the midst of a confidential therapist’s worst nightmare.
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Dojo and Haze Pet Of The Week
March 27, 2020
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Some viruses are stranger than others (Bookends) Our world is pretty much consumed by COVID-19 news, to the extent that you could almost re-title the CBC as the COVID Broadcasting Concern.
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Migo Pet Of The Week
March 20, 2020
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In search of the real killer (Bookends) Cecil Younger seems to have taken a hiatus from his job as a private eye as this book begins.
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Arrow Pet Of The Week
March 13, 2020
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A modern parable about friendship and kindness (Bookends) The easiest way to sum up this cute little book is to say that it’s about friendship and the cure for loneliness.
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Mr Cloud Pet Of The Week
March 6, 2020
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Mysteries overlap in the currents of time (Bookends) The Current is subtitled “A Novel” and, to the extent that it deals with interactions between people as well as introspection, it deserves that notation.
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Scouter honoured for his dedication Scouter Sean Munro received an award for 35 years of service in Scouting on Feb. 24 from Angélique Bernard, the Yukon’s chief Scout and the commissioner of the Yukon.
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Jaeger Pet Of The Week
February 28, 2020
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Who Killed Tom Thomson? (Bookends) The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century’s Most Famous Artists by John Little
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The night the classics came to the KIAC The KIAC Ballroom was home to a semi-classical evening of music last Saturday.
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Dime Pet of the Week