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Category Archives: humour
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
“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
Posted in adult fiction, books, contemporary culture, friendship, humour, Toronto
Tagged Toronto waterfront
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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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Another Croatian Miracle
Wow! Just think of it: little Croatia, a country of barely four million people and an independent state for less than 37 years knocking off some of the great powers of football and, indeed, of global affairs, countries like Argentina, … Continue reading
Posted in Bosnia, Croatia, Dubrovnik, food literature, Football World Cup, humour, miracles, Montenegro, Saint Blaise, travel books
Tagged Cavtat, Elafiti Islands, Kotor, miracles, Ston, World Cup
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The Queen’s Bed
It’s time to leave Canada and roam some other parts of the world, starting with Edinburgh, Scotland. This is a handsome city, carved into two halves by a deep gully: Old Town and New Town, though the latter in its … Continue reading
Posted in biography, books, British royal family, Edinburgh, food, food literature, HMS Britannia, humour, Leith, Queen Elizabeth II, recipes, travel books
Tagged beds, Britannia, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Queen's bedroom
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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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Tagged Cape Spear, Haida Gwaii
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Canada 150, Prince Edward Island
Happy 150th birthday, Canada! On this day, it seems appropriate to offer an excerpt from “The Little Prince” about the conference in Charlottetown that set the stage for Confederation three years later: Even today, the little island “resting on the … Continue reading
Canada 150, New Brunswick
This cross-Canada journey continues with excerpts from “Big New Brunswick Dreams:” Flat red and brown sand beaches run along the eastern coast of New Brunswick like a soft, broad highway from Charlo on Chaleur Bay to the Confederation Bridge on … Continue reading
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