Well I have to tell you, I chuckled a whole lot while reading this. Maxine Trottier has a penchant for creating humour with the use of exaggeration and original metaphors. The narrative flows quite easily and is a pleasure to read. There's plenty of..
Topics: Books, Maxine Trottier, Three Songs for Courage

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This one started off something of a drag but soon captured my attention. It's about a promising young man who disappears and soon after begins to make annual calls to his mother on mother's day. That story line by itself is intriguing. For a...
Topics: Books, Mary Higgins Clarke

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You're right, it is a title from Dr. Suess. Yertle was king of all he could see but that was not enough, for he could only see the pond in which he lived. So he ordered nine turtles to stack themselves up so he could climb higher and see more. But...
Topics: Books, Dr. Suess

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Sphere, the 1987 thriller, by ER writer Michael Crichton, certainly lived up to Newsweek's rave that it's a page turner. Yep, I turned page after page and gobbled the book off in a Jiffy. But when I was done I had indigestion. The nail biting...
Topics: Books, Michael Crichton, Sphere, The Little Gentleman

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Kin teet is Jamaican for laughter. Kibba means cover. Bun stands for burn. When translated you get someting like 'use laughter to cover pain'. This is by no means saying be a stoic. Not at all. We Jamaicans are open and unabashed where grief and..
Topics: Folk Wisdom Fridays, Jamaicanisms

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