From the Dusty Book Shelf

Nasty Business: One Biker Gang's Bloody War Against the Hells Angels, By Peter Paradis

Over the past few years I have read a dozen or more books about criminal organizations, but this is not one of the better ones. The narrat...
In My Mailbox Today: the Everyman's Library Edition of War and Peace

I deliberated over whether to buy this edition of War and Peace for over a month. I finally ordered it a few days ago and it arrived today....
The Theory of Knowledge by Maurice Cornforth

Twice I’ve tried to read this book. The first time I attempted it, I set it aside because my first year of university started and I had no ...
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)

Doctor Zhivago is beautiful. It's philosophical, tragic honey, like Gone with the Wind or The Petrified Forest. Set to the backdrop...
Value Village Book Finds

A new Value Village second hand shop went in not far from my home about a month ago, so I rode the bus out today and browsed their book sect...
The Fetish (Alberto Moravia)

The Fetish is the forth work I've read by Alberto Moravia, but it's the first collection of short stories. Unfortunately, I wasn...
Mad Shadows (Marie-Claire Blais)

Mad Shadows is the 78th volume in McClelland and Stewart's New Canadian Library series. It's also the 1959 debut novel of French-...
Frozen Heat, by Richard Castle (aka a ghost writer)

Frozen Heat (Richard Castle) Last Fall, while watching my weekly dose of The Voice on CTV, I discovered the network also brough...
"The Moons of Jupiter" by Alice Munro (a collection of short stories) (1982)

T his is the second collection of stories I've read by Alice Munro, and like the first volume, there is nothing uplifting about th...
Anti-Capitalism (Simon Tormey)

Even if you don't consider yourself an anti-capitalist, or a person with anti-capitalist tendencies, this is the book to read if you...