Used
One hazard of buying used poetry is that sometimes people cut out their favourite poems and sell the leftovers.
March 2013
Livewords Carousel 31 launch on April 4th, 2013
Livewords is pleased to host, in association with National Poetry Month, the Toronto ADVANCE launch of CAROUSEL 31.
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Largely Literary Linkage: VIDA, transparency, Hamlet, and ereaders
Google Reader is disappearing as of July 1st, 2013. Which marks the death of one of the very few Google products I use these days. Slate.com has created a graveyard of dead Google products. I’d long since forgotten about most of these, and there were more than a few I hadn’t heard of. But the Reader? That
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Shelf Life: January 2013
So many books to read. So little time. I’m not going to go into detail with every book, just highlight a few of them. 1. How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran (Harper, 2012) I had difficulty with this one. Moran’s clearly well read, yet this reads like a stream of consciousness monologue, only less eloquent.
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In 2012 I read almost twice as many books written by men
I finally finished recording the brief notes for Shelf Life for the books I read in 2012. I topped last year’s count of 162 books read, but only just. In 2012 I read 164 books. I set out with no set pattern, but as this is the second year that CWILA will be counting its numbers, I
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Shelf Life: December 2012
Last Shelf Life of 2012. Gonna be brief. 154. Sunset Park, by Paul Auster (Henry Holt and Co., 2010) I’d never read Auster before, but I’ve heard good things. Perhaps this wasn’t the best introduction. I found Sunset Park to be very disjointed and there were too many pointless references to baseball. I couldn’t get into it.
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