by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Jul 7, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
What we read This novel received rave reviews when it came out in 1997. To me, it is a welcome addition to the canon of Canadiana, overly populated with the dryly morose (e.g., Atwood), or the cheesy (e.g, Anne of Green Gables, Who Has Seen the Wind). While none of...
by potential | May 25, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
What we read I first read the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins on the recommendation from a friend. She had told me that it was a book for ‘young’ readers but followed up that she absolutely loved it. I was intrigued! I not only loved it but devoured it just as I...
by potential | May 10, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
What We Read The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton examines the nature of and our relationship with work – something that most of us will spend a good portion of life doing. De Botton takes a long walk with a man who loves powerlines, he sits with a...
by John Horn | Dec 2, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
CLJ Reviews the Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis [Editor’s Note: this post is by Book Club’s Phil “Hashbrown” Skipper and conforms in no way to the structure that all other write-ups follow. And that is what it, like Phil, is superawesome...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Nov 26, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
CLJ Reviews The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley What We Read I read the Zanzibar chest during a booze filled week in Mexico. At the time it seemed like a rollicking good read – chronicling the journeys of Aiden Hartley, a BBC journalist through African conflict zones...
