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The Book Mine Set
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Book discussions, original poetry, weekly competitions where readers vote on their favourite of two authors
- Author: John Mutford
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- Tags: short story jane austen charles bukowski poetry friday the great wednesday compare douglas r. hofstadter
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Reader\'s Diary #544- Chuck Palahniuk VERSUS Don Delillo
The final winner of last week's Great Wednesday Compare (Chuck Palahniuk Vs Douglas Adams), with a final score of 4-3, was Chuck Palahniuk!Given the difficulty most people seemed to have deciding between the two, I'm really not surprised to find the ...
Reader\'s Diary #543- Maya Angelou: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
I had figured that I'd probably not like Maya Angelou's writing. In hindsight, I must have had some sort of snobbery against critics, since they all seem to like it. Like, "Oh yeah? Let's see if she's really all that great."Turns out, she i...
Reader\'s Diary #542- Peter Behrens: Feel This
Since it's Remembrance Day this Wednesday, I purposely went looking for a Canadian short story that dealt with war. I needn't be surprised, nor should I complain, when the story I find is depressing.Peter Behrens' story, "Feel This," is abo...
Saturday Word Play- WWI Syllacrostics
With Remembrance Day around the corner, I thought I'd focus on books set in the days of World War One. I've given you ten books; choosing from the syllables given below, can you identify their authors?As always, feel free to do all ten at home, but p...
Reader\'s Diary #541- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
A few months ago I reread Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, stating at the time that while I wasn't a huge Potter fan, I enjoyed it much more reading it to my daughter.Rereading the 2nd in the series, I'm even less of a Potter fan. ...
The Great Wednesday Compare #5- Chuck Palahniuk VERSUS Douglas Adams
The final winner of the Great Wednesday Compare 4 is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!!!So it turns out that Frankenstein is better than The Handmaid's Tale. Here's the proof:1. In the first three rounds of the the 4th GWC, The Handmaid gobbled down the L...
