JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR She didn’t have Google to help her research. Nor was there a public library in…Continue Reading
Posted on 20 July 2016 by Contributor | Comments Off on Cameo: Researching ‘Old Man’s Garden’
JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR She didn’t have Google to help her research. Nor was there a public library in…Continue Reading
Posted on 13 July 2016 by Contributor | Comments Off on Cameo: Finding companionship
Being a single woman in a couple-oriented small community is never easy. Annora Brown was no exception. She belonged to…Continue Reading
Posted on 08 June 2016 by Contributor | Comments Off on Annora Brown: pioneer interpreter of the western Canadian landscape
“By the 1930s artists were capturing scenes from many Canadian landscapes,” Annora Brown wrote from the Ontario College of Art. “Their canvases depicted Quebec, Ontario, outpost Winnipeg and a strip of the West Coast.” But her own prairie region “was as little known as the Antarctic landscape!” She resolved to change that omission, though I’m…Continue Reading
Posted on 08 June 2016 by Contributor | Comments Off on The Last Book Review
Contributor – Herb Johnson (who turned 80 last week) This book report will not deal with a specific novel. It…Continue Reading
Posted on 01 June 2016 by Contributor | Comments (1)
JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR There’s a treasure chest of Annora Brown paintings located in the Collections and Research Archives of Calgary’s Glenbow Museum. The shame is that only occasionally have they been displayed or lent to other public institutions. The blessing is that they have been so carefully preserved they are of pristine quality.…Continue Reading
Posted on 01 June 2016 by Contributor | Comments Off on Review: Nemesis, by Bill Pronzini
HERB JOHNSON – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR sThis is one of a series by Pronzini featuring the nameless detective. We know his…Continue Reading
Posted on 10 May 2016 by admin | Comments Off on Review: Raylan, by Elmore Leonard
HERB JOHNSON – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR Federal marshall Raylan Givens and a team of SWAT guys descend on a motel in…Continue Reading
Posted on 03 May 2016 by Contributor | Comments Off on Review: Watching the Dark, by Peter Robinson
HERB JOHNSON, GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR Recently a person who was reading the particular novel was overheard to say the it was…Continue Reading
Posted on 26 April 2016 by Contributor | Comments Off on Review: The Target, by David Baldacci
Jessica Reel and Will Robie are stone killers. They work for the CIA. In a previous novel Jessica killed two…Continue Reading