It's startling how thoughtful, evocative and just plain funny a man can be in writing his regular correspondance. Makes you want to be a prolific letter-writer yourself. Makes you wish he were still alive so that you could respond to some of the more inflammatory things he says.

I don't think I'd realized quite how much Davies was concerned about the "place" of Canadian Literature in the world literature canon; it comes out so plainly here.

Judith Skelton Grant, who edited the letters, is mentioned repeatedly in them -- Davies apparently was amused, worried and sometimes just ticked off about the biography she was writing of him.

I enjoyed this book's organization, which was established by the various books Davies had written over the last part of his career. While not Canadian, and thereby somewhat in the dark regarding some of the letters' recipients, I found the editor's annotations brief but helpful. The main draw here is the author's distinctive voice, which emerges within the various letters.

I am not usually interested in reading compilations of letters. Here, however, I find a volume that constitutes a diversion from my other reading, a book which I can pick up from time to time and garner ideas for those brighter days when I re-read a Davies' novel. For this end, I found the collection worthwhile!

Mr. Heinl's photographic technique is flawless. The images are perfectly exposed and razor sharp.

The awesome landscape that is the Canadian Rockies is an ideal subject for expert aerial photography.

Unfortunately, the true majesty of the mountains seems to take a back seat to human activity. For every image of Mount Robson or Maligne Lake, we get two or three of the buildings atop Sulfur Mountain or the Jasper Park Lodge golf courses.

A book of this type dedicated more to the backcountry would be magnificent.

Excellent images - gives a realistic view of what BC is all about! The photography is OUTSTANDING!!!

The interactive CD includes websites, video clips, audio clips, and tests, that increase interest in the subject matter. It's fun.

...I read this book for an undergraduate class and thought it was very good. One problem-- the final chapter was too brief, they should have split it into three like the previous edition.

The Lives of Girls and Women is written by one of the most observant writer Alice Munro. A wonderful written book about a girl's live. A book that's very hard to capture its theme. I am a student studying this book. So if you have any useful information about of the book, please mail it to me. Thanks

This book is a difficult one to contemplate.If you have any good material about this book. Please state it in your review. I am a student studying this book and would like to know more indepth information about it.

This book was not quite what I expected, as it contained a lot of politics and not as much policing information as I would have liked, but that was the author's decision, so I cannot condemn him for that. But I would like to meet his editor and ask him or her what they were thinking whenever they sent this book to print. I found that it repeated itself way too much, and it seemed that at least a couple of sentences on every page didn't really make any sense, such as big words being used but with the wrong meanings. I did like the personal stories and the interaction that the author had with the mounties, but the history of how the RCMP became like a business wasn't really presented in an interesting manner. But if business info is what you want, then you should definitely pick up a copy of this book, and if it is policing information you are looking for, then this book is still a good buy.

This book was excellent in it's detail of how the RCMP have been challenged by political influeance and policy shift over the last decades. It explains the roots of the RCMP culture and the members who have seen the changes through various goverments and Commissioners. If you understand policing, and appreciate the challenges faced by frontline and management officers, but can't reason with current direction and focus, this book will open your thoughts and broden your opinions as to Federal and Municipal Policing in this country.

The stories portray Chinese Americans as real people during the turn of the century. At that time, most of the Chinese were seen as one-dimensional. The author gave them emotions and feelings, yet did not portray them in a positive light. I give her credit for being these characters into the mainstream, but I think she did a dis-service by making them sound sterotypical and backward. The stories themselves are entertaining, but not terribly memorable.

I like Sui Sin Far a lot more than Maxine Hong Kingston or Amy Tan. I'm glad someone finally portrayed Asians correctly. You can always count on this important author.

I loved this book and read every word but I gave it a 3 because I was confused with some of the other person accounts. The Other Self. I am very well aware that the author was probably a multiple personality but i found the other confusing at times. this is the only book I have read by Frazer and am not sure I will seek out another. I felt sorry for Danny who deserved better. But then I don't think I was sexually abused as a child so how can I condemn one who was? I have a friend who was sexually abused by an older brother when she was around age 12 or 14 and she HATES him, even now and she is past 70. She says, where was my Mother when this was going on??? I ask, Why did you allow it to happen? Why did you not tell what was going on???

The topic of incest might be enough to drive away many potential readers of Sylvia Fraser's book, but there is so much more to be discovered if the reader takes a chance. I find Ms. Fraser to be fearless in opening herself onto the pages, exposing the good and the bad within herself, her family, and society. The events of her life, her journey through marriage, the rediscovery of her self and the integration of all her memories was at once joyful, inspiring, sad, tragic, and true. The detailed imagery took me back to the 1950s, a decade before I was born, to experience it as if I had lived through those years with her. I can truly say this is one of the better written books I've had to pleasure to read and my admiration of it's technical construction and voice has inspired a wish that I might someday write that well. I reread this book at least once a year and I've looked long and hard for other books by Sylvia Fraser, as I know she's written one titled Pandora's Box, but, alas, have not found them in print anywhere. Since I know the author is from Canada, I'm hoping someone will comment here and let me know where I might get copies. Sylvia, if you're reading this, hope you are well, living life to the fullest, have a few cats in your life, and are still writing more novels for me to discover.

Although My Own Ground is an interesting comment on the positive aspects of a Marxist society, Nissenson becomes overhanded in his portrayal of this utopian Marxist society. Nissenson portrays the positive aspects of a Marxist society, but never takes a close look at the abuses of power that can occur with a Marxist society. The novel centers on a woman who becomes a prostitute because she is unable to support herself in a capitalistic society. Although there are very real problems with a strictly capitalistic society, I feel that this book portrays Marxism as the absolute way to live in society. Although overall it was a good novel, perhaps if he had not been so overt in his intentions, it would have been a better novel.

I've been carrying the banner of Hugh Nissenson for some years now, especially with MY OWN GROUND. Henry Roth's CALL IT SLEEP has for years been the considered the sine qua non in the canon of Lower East Side fiction, but MY OWN GROUND is a real stunner.

The story of a teenage orphan in the Lower East Side in 1912, the novel quite skillfully avoids the cliche-ridden traps of the usual "folkloric" opus, instead bringing us a teeming, swirling--and very dangerous--world in which Jake (an orphan without the usual dose of "pluck") must navigate.

MY OWN GROUND is also a welcome relief from the usual dose of schmaltz (i.e., Leo Rosten)that is usually served up-- here the Lower East Side is a grimy and poor place, and Jake falls in with the eerie and malevolent pimp Shlifka.

I can't say enough about this novel. It deserves to be front and center in any survey of Jewish fiction.

This is a truly wonderful compilation of biographical snapshots of all of Canada's relevant Prime Ministers. A wonderful read.

For anyone interested in a critical review of Canada's best-known politicians, this is the book. Prolific Canadian historian Michael Bliss has written a valuable addition for the library of anyone interested in Canadian politics. Some readers may not always agree with his viewpoint, but the work is well-written and at times, entertaining. After reading this book, one will have more appreciation of the difficulty in governing this vast country, and will hopefully have a greater understanding of Canadian politics and the sometimes maddening behaviour of our current PM!

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