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Mountie death raises questions

as Justin Elise, was last seen in Edmonton and just north of the Alberta capital, in St. Albert, police said Monday. He has blond hair, blue eyes ...

Albert S Hadley and the Gospel Soul Children pt 2

Albert Hadley directing his version of I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry

New Orleans Gospel Soul Children under the direction of Albert S Hadley, director and ...

This is the founding director ,Albert S. Hadley, directing the New Orleans Gospel Soul Children @ GSS in 1982... This is definitely a real ...

New Books

Bibliophile on Commercial is closing and while a new bookstore will be replacing them they will be switching stock. An opportunity to buy all the books I’ve been looking at over the past year but never managed to take home. Six of these are also from Pulpfiction on Main st.

Fiction

Vincent Lam, ‘Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures’ (2005) – I would not have bought this had it not won the Giller prize in 2006 and I don’t think I’ve ever bought a book based on a prize list before. But – Canadian short stories, set in Toronto, acclaimed, this is something I might as well read. And from this whole list it is the only one I have already read, in just two days, last week. It’s an easy read, very engaging and fast but it goes just as quickly. There’s just nothing really there. Jhumpa Lahiri, ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ (2008) – My friend Haida told me to buy the first Jhumpa Lahiri, ‘Interpreter of Maladies,’ when we were in Toronto, November 2007. I did not read it until December 2008 and actually read it downstairs in maybe two days while Jan was watching MacGyver . Robert Kroetsch, ‘The Studhorse Man’ (1970) – This was out front on the $3 rack, another Canadian classic, Governor General’s Award winner, an entry in the ongoing deconstruction of the Old West and an early entry in Canada’s aggressive refashioning of the Prairie myth. Sure, for three bucks. Mordecai Richler, ‘Barney’s Version’ (1997) – I think my friend Dave told me to read this; we were camping in 2006 outside of Lillooet and he was finishing it. More Canadian classics I’ve never bothered to read for various reasons. also a Giller prize winner. Howard Norman, ‘The Northern Lights’ (1987) – Hooray for $3 novels that I know nothing about. Carol Shields, ‘Larry’s Party’ (1997) – I remember when this came out and...

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