This is how a memoir should be done. Â It’s raw, brutally honest and goes deep into the reasons why anyone would buy it in the first place – the band and the man who started it. Â …
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Readers of Motorcycle Mojo will be familiar with the name Paddy Tyson. Â He is an Irish adventure rider who makes regular contributions to the monthly magazine about his trips near and far. Â His book, The Hunt for Puerto Del Faglioli, takes him through Canada, the US, Mexico and further south on his testy Italian motorcycle he has nicknamed Peggy. Â 
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I love movies, I really do, but a live theatre (pronounced thea-tuh) crowd as a whole is just a step up. Â It must be because the tickets cost so much more. Â …
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Some might say it really isn’t fair to slag someone’s memoir before I’m even done reading the whole thing but – holy Hannah – I’m three chapters in and I’m already tempted to skip several pages at a time! Â …
Our friend Eddie is a man of truly rare talents. Â He’s an incredible mimic and voice artist and you won’t find a funnier guy on the planet. Â …
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Although I purchased some current books for my Kobo ereader, it also came with a selection of free classics to download. Â I’m currently reading one I’ve always meant to get around to: Uncle Tom’s Cabin. …
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Full disclosure: One of the four co-authors of this book is a friend of mine, Judy Croon. Â Judy has been a stand-up comic for a long time and you’ve probably seen her on The Comedy Channel or CBC or any number of other places including clubs across the continent. Â …
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Review: From the Stage to the Page, Life Lessons From Four Funny Ladies Read More »
It’s been years since I picked up a Stephen King novel but he has been churning them out as regularly as ever. …
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The Paris Wife is a fictionalized account of some very real lives written by poet and second-time novelist Paula McLain. Â …
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Much has been written about soul-less Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and his ravenous greed. Â However, a new book aims to give us an inside look at Bernie’s entire family and how disgusting, sad, mean and gluttonous they all were, as a unit. Â …
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It’s corny (and corn-doggy) but I love the Western Fair. …
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The Dilemma is packed with star-power: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Oscar-winner Jennifer Connolly, Winona Ryder. It was directed by Ron Howard, so one’s expectations kind of rise, even though it didn’t make much of a box office buzz.    …
In Chapters last week I had planned only to buy SuperFreakonomics after it was recommended to me by someone who has also enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw and Outliers.  But they had a buy-3-get-1-free sale on throughout the store and books never go stale, so, I took advantage. …
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The guys from the most successful R rated film ever, The Hangover, are back in The Hangover II. And this time they have a monkey! …
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OK I’m a little late to the party on this best-seller by Malcom Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. It’s already in soft-cover and still on the top sales lists. …
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If you browse bookstores, check the best-seller lists or read about literary awards you already know that London-based novelist Emma Donoghue has won the Rogers’ Writers Trust Fiction Prize here in Canada and a major literary award in her native Ireland. She missed out on the Man Booker Prize but her latest novel, Room, is the third best-selling book in Canada right now. …
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The Devil Wears Prada had a strong influence on me. Author Lauren Weisberger’s snappy, exciting writing inspired me to tackle fiction. The Devil Wears Prada, as you probably know, became a hit movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It’s clever, sharp and its characters crackle with life. …
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