I’m not a big fan of short story collections but in researching reviews on this one, as one of the books being defended in the Canada Reads competition, I have to say this one has caught my curiousity enough I may have a look at it. The only book...
Topics: Canada Reads, Short Stories

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For the last five years CBC Radio Canada has produced Canada Reads. The program is sort of a survivor type program with five prominent Canadians chosen to select a Canadian book to defend as worthy of being read by all Canadians. The books are debated...
Topics: Canada Reads

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This isn’t a book I’ve read, or for that matter, heard of before I came across this article in the Toronto Star the other day. The Peel Catholic School Board (located in the Toronto, Ontario area) has pulled the book from the school library...
Topics: Censorship, Fiction

{"title":"Snow Falling on Cedars","post_url":"http:\/\/idesofbooks.com\/snow-falling-on-cedars","feed_url":"http:\/\/idesofbooks.com\/feed\/","author":"PattiM","date":"2007-02-04 03:40:53","summary":"This isn’t a book I’ve read, or for that matter, heard of before I came across this article in the Toronto Star the other day. The Peel Catholic School Board (located in the Toronto, Ontario area) has pulled the book from the school library..."}

Since the topic of this site, books tends to be based more on opinion than cold, hard, refutable facts I wanted a way for not only me to give my opinion and rating of a book but also for you the visitor to give yours back. There is the comment section...
Topics: Site News

{"title":"Rating System Added","post_url":"http:\/\/idesofbooks.com\/rating-system-added","feed_url":"http:\/\/idesofbooks.com\/feed\/","author":"PattiM","date":"2007-02-03 01:29:11","summary":"Since the topic of this site, books tends to be based more on opinion than cold, hard, refutable facts I wanted a way for not only me to give my opinion and rating of a book but also for you the visitor to give yours back. There is the comment section..."}

Somehow it seems fitting that I’ve chosen to write the first entry on this new blog about Micheal Kerens and his book “Blogosphere: The New Political Arena“. I will state at the outset I have not read the book, nor am I likely to. I did.
Topics: Commentary

{"title":"I Blog Therefore I Am Not Real","post_url":"http:\/\/idesofbooks.com\/i-blog","feed_url":"http:\/\/idesofbooks.com\/feed\/","author":"PattiM","date":"2007-02-01 16:00:00","summary":"Somehow it seems fitting that I’ve chosen to write the first entry on this new blog about Micheal Kerens and his book “Blogosphere: The New Political Arena“. I will state at the outset I have not read the book, nor am I likely to. I did."}