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Category Archives: contemporary culture
Covid Capers
Impatient to be travelling but stuck at home? Try some virtual travelling with the entertaining and informative stories from many countries included in these books. You don’t have to get up off the couch to have unique adventures in other … Continue reading
Author Signing, August 16
T.A. Keenleyside will be at the Rosseau Market in Rosseau, Ontario on Friday, August 16, from 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m., autographing copies of his latest novel, All The Way, nominated for the 2019 Governor General’s fiction prize. He will … Continue reading
“All The Way” on the Toronto Waterfront
The Toronto waterfront features prominently in the novel, “All The Way” and there is a video about this aspect of the book posted at http://www.facebook.com/terry.keenleyside and at http://LinkedIn.com/terry-keenleyside. Here is a brief quotation from one chapter of the book dealing with the … Continue reading
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“All The Way” Through College
This is the campus of the University of Toronto where the characters in the novel, “All The Way” consolidate the friendships they made in the summer of 1958 and form relations that, in most cases lead to marriage. … Continue reading
Posted in adult fiction, Aging, books, contemporary culture, Toronto, university life
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Video about “All The Way”
A new, short video about the novel, “All The Way” is online at: http://www.facebook.ca/terry.keenleyside, and at http://www.Linkedin.ca. Set in Toronto, Ontario cottage country, and the coast of Maine, “All The Way” is a good summer read. Available from http://www.borealispress.com and … Continue reading
Posted in adult fiction, Aging, books, contemporary culture, cottage life, friendship, Georgian Bay, humour, Toronto
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The Novel, “All The Way” Coming Soon!
All The Way, a new novel by T.A. Keenleyside, will be released in March by Borealis Press of Ottawa. Six teenagers meet at a summer hotel in 1958. It is at a time in life when they are full of … Continue reading
Posted in adult fiction, Aging, books, contemporary culture, friendship, Georgian Bay, humour, Muskoka, sexual behaviour, Toronto
Tagged Aging, friendship
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New Novel Coming Soon
Borealis Press of Ottawa will soon be releasing a dramatic, new novel by T.A. Keenleyside, entitled All The Way. The book follows the ups and downs in the lives of eight friends over a sixty-year period. It is set mainly … Continue reading
Posted in adult fiction, books, contemporary culture, Georgian Bay, humour, Maine coast, Muskoka, Toronto
Tagged contemporary culture, Georgian Bay, human behaviour, Maine coast, Muskoka, Toronto
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The Lake District and Swallows and Amazons
Among the most famous writers of children’s books is the British author, Arthur Ransome. Unlike most contemporary writers of such books, he created adventure stories based on credible real-life incidents even though his youthful characters imagined events occurring that went … Continue reading
Posted in Arthur Ransome, Coniston Water, contemporary culture, family literature, food literature, Georgian Bay, Killarney Provincial Park, Lake District, Swallows and Amazons, travel books, Wild Cat Island
Tagged Arthur Ransome, Coniston Water, Holly Howe Farm, Lake District, Swallows and Amazons, Tarn Hows, Wild Cat Island
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Canada 150, Conclusion
Here are some final thoughts from Roaming the Big Land: Flavours of Canada: Now we (have) travelled to both the western and eastern extremes of Canada–Toe Head in Haida Gwaii and Cape Spear at the northern end of the Avalon … Continue reading
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Canada 150, British Columbia
Reaching the west coast at last, here are some excerpts from the chapter entitled “Looking For Utopia”: Since the middle of the nineteenth century, British Columbia has been a magnet for groups seeking a new and better life, one that … Continue reading
Posted in British Columbia, Canada 150, Canadian travel, contemporary culture, family literature, food literature, golf, Haida Gwaii, travel books, Utopian communities
Tagged Brother Twelve, Dixon Entrance Golf and Country Club, Fairwinds, food literature, Pesuta wreck, recipes, Utopia
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