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A Crock of Schmidt

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My 2016 Leacock Medal Challenge – Winner

June 9, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Awarding “the best” is always fraught with contention, as any avid sports fan will quickly tell you.  Be it a Hall of Fame induction or an MVP honour, there is almost never universal agreement on any winner.  The Baseball Hall of Fame, as it is well known, has never once had a unanimous inductee.  Hell, […]

Filed Under: Book Schmidt Tagged With: books, canlit, humour, Leacock Medal, Sarah Mian, Susan Juby, Terry Fallis

When The Saints by Sarah Mian – Review

May 24, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

There’s nothing like embarking on a new challenge by inadvertently cuffing yourself upside the head, which is precisely how I feel right now about this book.  When The Saints, by Sarah Mian is the first of the three finalists for the 2016 Leacock Medal I chose to read.  It was a purely random act, that […]

Filed Under: Book Schmidt Tagged With: books, Chuck Klosterman, humour, Leacock Medal, Nova Scotia, Sarah Mian, Trailer Park Boys

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