Monday 30 April 2007

Non-Fiction Reading Challenge

Joy at Thoughts of Joy has come up with a great reading challenge: the Non-Fiction Five.

The guidelines are simple: from May to September, you read five books of non-fiction.

Here are my five (plus four more because I’m ambitious):

• Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man by Eric Wright
• Barrelhouse Kings: A Memoir by Barry Callaghan
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• A Country Not Considered: Canada, Culture, Work by Tom Wayman
• The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth-Century France by Joanna Richardson
• Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by John Phillip Santos
• Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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Saturday 28 April 2007

Canadian Poetry Archive

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Friday 27 April 2007

Good Lecture By Robertson Davies

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Thursday 26 April 2007

Vote for the Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere

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Wednesday 25 April 2007

New SF Zine

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Tuesday 24 April 2007

Celebrating Dorothy Parker

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Monday 23 April 2007

Against A National Poetry Month

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Sunday 22 April 2007

The Alcuin Society

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Saturday 21 April 2007

Ficlets

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Black County Dialect

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Friday 20 April 2007

Learning About Contronyms

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Thursday 19 April 2007

Congratulations to Kimbooktu

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Wednesday 18 April 2007

Yann Martel Takes On Stephen Harper

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Tuesday 17 April 2007

What Is Poetry?

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Monday 16 April 2007

Many Endangered Languages in B.C.

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Sunday 15 April 2007

R.I.P. June Callwood

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Saturday 14 April 2007

One Sentence Stories

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Friday 13 April 2007

Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry On Language and Censorship

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Thursday 12 April 2007

Books We’ve Read But Forgotten

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Wednesday 11 April 2007

There Once Was a Ninja From Nantucket . . .

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Tuesday 10 April 2007

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written

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Monday 9 April 2007

“Literary Fiction” and “Genre Fiction”

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Sunday 8 April 2007

Which Church Father Are You?

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Saturday 7 April 2007

All About Tom Bombadil

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Friday 6 April 2007

RIP Donald Hamilton

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Thursday 5 April 2007

Arial Or Helvetica?

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Tuesday 3 April 2007

The Books Or Authors You Can’t Stand

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Monday 2 April 2007

The Truth About The Way We Read

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Sunday 1 April 2007

A Bookish Contest

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