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KEMENY BABINEAU’S TONGUE DOES IT AGAIN!

Tuesday December 27th, 2011 in Reviews

Tongue 10 from Laurel Reed Books is out in all its profundity and entertainment. This brilliant 26 page starkly black & white chapbook begins with a quote from Joe Louis on the inside page: “Everyone has a plan until they get hit.”

Much of the text is Letterplay. There’s a proper poetic [...]

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GLENNA GREEN – ADD THIS WARM-VOICED, DISTINCTIVE SINGER TO YOUR HOLIDAY COLLECTION

Thursday December 1st, 2011 in Reviews

The red-haired Glenna who sings at many local venues, has a new CD called ‘TREE TOONZ. where she is dressed as a guitar-playing Christmas Tree. Tree Toonz, which retails for $20, includes New Years and has such favorites as “Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake,’ and ‘Sleigh Ride.’
You can pick one up personally [...]

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WENDY LUELLA PERKINS with TEILHARD FROST has a new CD ‘This Very Moment.’

Tuesday November 22nd, 2011 in Reviews

“Breathe, chant, listen, sing, connect, improvise,’ it says on the half of the ticket remaining to me when I went to celebrate the music that has come out of Wendy’s Soulful Singing Gatherings which meet weekly here in Kingston, Ontario and environs.

The meeting was held on the stage of this candlelit old church [...]

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THIS SIDE UP BY SANDRA STEPHENSON (CZANDRA) – REVIEW

Wednesday September 14th, 2011 in Reviews

Montreal Poet, Czandra, is a graceful woman with the classical good looks of Virginia Woolf. She has a new chapbook from Sitting Duck & Broken Rules Presses. I have #7 of the first print run of 120. ($12) from 6871 rue d’Iberville, Montreal, PQ H2G 2C9 Canada

When opened up, [...]

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BEST CANADIAN NEWSPAPER FROM A READER’S PERSPECTIVE

Saturday July 23rd, 2011 in Newspapers, Reviews

Disclaimer: I don’t subscribe to any but for years I’ve bought, read and discussed 6 papers daily. I’ve had features in most from time to time, letters in all but no affiliation with any. No one is bias free but I try to have an objective viewpoint. For certain, I’m probably a good fit for [...]

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AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON – I WROTE THIS MOVIE SPOILER (Link to the right)

Sunday July 3rd, 2011 in In My Life Stuff, Reviews

THE MOVIE SPOILER.com SPOILER ARCHIVE
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
NOTE: Here is a Classic spoiler from Rose who says… “This is my favorite film. The music is superb.(Three separate classic renditions of Blue Moon.) There is no explicit nudity, the violence is subtle and the gore really not that bad.”
Moody shots lead us deep [...]

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TARA KAINER’S BOOK OF PAIN & NATURE

Sunday June 26th, 2011 in Poems, Reviews

She’s been on welfare. Tara says that right up front in an interview on youtube. (Link on right). Titles of the work in her new book give you some idea of what she’s been through: Past Hope, Sadness, I Didn’t Count On This, Hunger, Love Is Like Death, This Yearning, There’s A Funeral [...]

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1 MILLION REASONS TO READ MY BOOK: For all young women who think their dreams can never be

Sunday May 8th, 2011 in Books I've Written Myself, Reviews, YOUR magazine could publish any of these!)

In my book, right now titled, Louisa May in Spandex, she returns to our times along with the creatures she wrote about in her Very First Book. It was NOT Little Women, that over-preachy tome her weird father had a substantial hand in, as Louisa was still in her teens.

No. It [...]

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WHY FAMILY MATTERS (According to Bronson Alcott, his daughter – and me)

Saturday August 7th, 2010 in In My Life Stuff, Reviews

Just finished, ‘Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott & Her Father,” by John Matteson. At first I was suspicious. The book is footnoted and I suspected it of academia (oh cursed word) but it turned out to be simply scholarly, objective and a great quoter of their work by someone with a [...]

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LIBBY PURVES! Understands women feeling trapped

Tuesday August 3rd, 2010 in Book, Reviews

Despite one book being unfortunately PINK, Purves lets you into how women feel in mid-family raising. In these novels you’ll get it too. (Free Woman, Casting Off). She shows you how a family operates, what can tear it down, build it up. A modern Dickens but not as long-winded, Purves KNOWS who these women are.
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