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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

Poles Apart by Terry Fallis – review

May 31, 2016 by acrockofschmidt 1 Comment

This book, Terry Fallis’ latest, Poles Apart, had me in tears. Unfortunately those tears resulted from disappointment rather than the presumably preferred laughter, hardly the desired reaction by reader, of author, to a finalist of a major humour award such as The Leacock Medal. It’s been well over a week since I finished reading it […]

Filed Under: Book Schmidt Tagged With: feminism, humour, Leacock Medal, Terry Fallis, writing

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis – Review

February 10, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Sometimes I discover a new author at the perfect time.  On this particular occasion, it was finding Terry Fallis during the federal election here in Canada this past autumn via his debut novel The Best Laid Plans.  The entire time I was reading this wonderfully farcical book I could not help fantasizing which of Stephen […]

Filed Under: Book Schmidt Tagged With: Canada, conservative, liberal, politics, satire, Terry Fallis

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