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Local Author Book Review #1: Clamming Up by Lee-Anne Stack
Since the recent launch of the Emerging Local Authors collection at my local library, I have decided to read some of the 174 books and write reviews of them. I’m not sure how many I’ll be able to get...
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Local Author Book Review #2: The White Limousine by John R. Paterson
Time travel. Second chances. A lost love and a new love. These are the compelling elements of The White Limousine, a science fiction romance by Victoria author John Paterson. The plot revolves around...
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Local Author Book Review #3: PsyBot by Nowick Gray
The Plot: Computer programmer Joe Norton juggles a series of awkward relationships with women while working for a tech company that’s facing a merger. As if this isn’t bad enough, he experiences...
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Local Author Book Review #4: The New Fire by Ada Robinson
The New Fire by Ada Robinson is a historical novel about a history that never happened set in a place that does not exist. But it reads as though rooted in a real place and time. This is from the back...
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Local Author Book Review #5: A Beautiful Heist by Kim Foster
I’m happy to say I’ve returned to reading and reviewing some of the 174 books in the Emerging Local Authors Collection at the Greater Victoria Public Library. Fifth in the series is A Beautiful Heist...
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Local Author Book Review #6: When The Stars Are Right by Scott R. Jones
The subtitle of this book could just as easily be A Rhapsody On Themes Of H.P. Lovecraft. While reading the first few chapters, my biggest problem was trying to figure out what it is: serious literary...
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Local Author Book Review #7: Triptych by Malcolm McCallum
Right at the start I will note that parts of this novel were read and discussed two or three years ago at meetings of a critique group of which I am a member. This review, however, is based on my...
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Local Author Book Review #8: Across the River from Detroit by Giselle Loeper
In 1956, Giselle Loeper, her husband Bob and their daughter arrived in Windsor, Ontario as immigrants from post-war Germany. Across the River from Detroit is a collection of brief anecdotes about their...
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Local Author Book Review #9: Cat’s Castle by Chris James
Cat’s Castle is a collection of poems by Victoria author Christopher (Chris) James. They were written from 2005 to 2013. Reading these poems, I was pleasantly surprised to discover familiar place...
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Local Author Book Review #10: Arcane by Sever Bronny
Arcane, by Sever Bronny is the first book in a 5-book YA fantasy series, The Arinthian Line. The story is set in the Kingdom of Solia, a medieval-type society full of peasants, knights and warlocks,...
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Celebrating Local Authors
Throughout October, the Greater Victoria Public Library (in Victoria, British Columbia) is making time and space available to authors who have contributed to its Emerging Local Authors Collection. On...
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Local Author Book Review #11: The Opera Singer by Keith M. Costain
A few weeks ago, I participated in an event at my the Greater Victoria Public Library featuring four authors who had contributed books to its Emerging Local Authors Collection. The four of us exchanged...
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Local Author Book Review #12: Hunter’s Daughter by Nowick Gray
This book is part of the 2016 Emerging Local Authors Collection at the Greater Victoria Public Library. From the back cover: Northern Quebec, 1964: Mountie Jack McLain, baffled by a series of unsolved...
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Local Author Book Review #13: Deception Bay by Lea Tassie
Greater Victoria Public Library (in Victoria, British Columbia) launched its third Emerging Local Authors Collection on May 4th. I have already finished reading a book from it! Here is the description...
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Despite the subtitle, this book is so much more than a whodunit in a medieval setting. Reading it is like watching the tiny, jewel-like pictures in an illuminated psalter come to life. It is a...
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The Hundred Mile Reading Diet
An opportunity to browse and buy books in Victoria, BC! My Writing Eden November is Craft Fair month when you can buy your Christmas gifts, and Victoria Writers’ Society is renting a table at a...
View ArticleLocal Author Book Review #15: The New Sword, by Ada Robinson
Yes, here’s yet another book review. I decided to pack December with reviews of indie authors’ books I’ve read recently. The New Sword is the sequel to The New Fire, which I reviewed here a couple of...
View ArticleLocal Author Book Review #16: House of Crows by Edeana Malcolm
Today I’m happy to introduce a historical novel set in the place I call home, Victoria, British Columbia. Book description: From a work camp to their shared home with a view of the posh residences...
View ArticleLocal Author Book Review #17: All Shapes and Disguises by Lee-Anne Stack
This is another in my occasional series called Local Author Book Reviews, featuring authors from the Greater Victoria (British Columbia) region whose books are included in the Greater Victoria Public...
View ArticleLocal Author Book Review #18: A Trail If By Sea by Laura Seabury Smith
Here is the first of two additions to my occasional series called Local Author Book Reviews, meaning books by authors from the Victoria BC area and Vancouver Island. First, a novel with a local...
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