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Jan.29.2013
My YouTube video promoting Diary of a CONFIRMED Spinster, my new ebook on Amazon.com Kindle.
There was a giant water main break in downtown Montreal yesterday, seriously messing up the McGill Campus. The city's pipes are old, 100 years old or more in places, and we've had...
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Nov.01.2012
This is the newspaper clipping Edith Nicholson made of the February 1913 Suffrage Exhibit at 622 St. Catherine West (as opposed to Ste. Catherine Ouest). They have a Suffrage Sandwich Man and a Limerick contest. What fun! And one special lady visitor is being given a tea at the Ritz, which...
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May.07.2012
Don’t Cry, Daddy’s Here: One Woman’s Journey to Recovery from Incest is a deeply disturbing memoir. At the same time it is an important book, one that offers a strong message of hope and renewal to victims of this terrible crime.
"My decision to write this book came from a deep desire...
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Dec.12.2011
From ancient times to the present, there’s a lengthy, ugly record of men who paid for sex with their lives rather than their pocketbook.
Commodus, 2nd century Roman emperor; Johann Joachim von Winckelmann, the great 18th century art historian; silent screen star Ramón Novarro; Italian film...
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Jun.29.2011
How many of these women promoting the SlutWalk in India are bothered about sluts? Spend a day as a slut, a whore, a sex worker and then tell us what it feels like to be called a slut after servicing upto ten men in a tiny cubicle behind a dirty curtain. Yes, you want to bring awareness...
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Jun.12.2011
Every now and then, a great novel manifesto comes along that gets people talking and curiosities flowing. The curious among us hope to be inspired, awed and enlightened by its wisdom, and should the experience fall short of expectation, we’re left wondering the reason for all the fuss.
However, I...
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Feb.13.2011
Elke had no options, not if she wanted to stay and become an American citizen. Her visa had expired and there was no one to take care of her since Duncan threw her out. He might have looked like Richard Pryor, but he was mean as a snake.
There were times she still missed his warm yeasty smell....
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Jan.31.2011
Taking advantage of a lull in the story, Pearl rushed to her cell and cast around for something to take with her. She settled on quickly going to the bathroom, washing and drying her hands and retracing her steps in case Maureen had more to tell.
No one had moved. All eyes were focused on Maureen...
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Jun.19.2010
Anri Suzuki wants to use her body to cure historical wrongs. She is not a card-holding pacifist but a history teacher and porn artiste who has offered to have sex with Chinese students at her college in Tokyo to make amends for the shameful Japanese invasion of China in 1937.
Is it time to get...
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May.11.2010
“I don’t write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.”
~Zoe Heller
Shopping a finished novel can be an exercise in futility sometimes. At least that has been my experience recently. The reasons range from "just not my kind of...
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