![]() ![]() ![]() But, probably my favourite of all… Sandra and Alex’s extra stories. So was Scenes from the Hallway with Dan and Kat… although not quite as good as Janie and Quinn expecting. Particularly since I read this when pregnant. There were some amazingly good standouts in this collection. Particularly with the ending of Marriage of Inconvenience… that epilogue tied everything up perfectly. So, where I normally want to dive straight into the next one… I didn’t feel quite as strongly about getting extra closure. I think mostly this didn’t get me all spine tingly happy like the other novels is that I felt like there was amazing closure at the end of each romance. But compared to the other novels… it just didn’t hit me in the same happy place. I mean, I still loved it and seriously enjoyed it. ![]() Surprisingly, this is the first Knitting in the City book that I wouldn’t give 5 stars. ![]()
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This suggestion, coming from the pulpit, platform and press, has hypnotized the minds of men and proves to be one of the strongest pillars of exploitation. An eternal being created human society as it is today, and submission to superiors and authority is imposed on the lower classes by divine will. ![]() ![]() Its setting was western, its technique ahead of its time. The history of As For Me and My House is in many ways the history of English-Canadian culture the factors that kept it obscure have played a part in any number of cultural developments throughout the nation's past. The collection charts the fortunes of one work of fiction and in the process sheds much light on the development of English-Canadian literature as a whole. David Stouck has brought together some of the most important contributions of the vast body of critical writing on Ross's novel. 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