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“Craig Lane
& I are two of the most honest hard working people. For someone to come into our yard in the middle of the night and steal our things, I cannot even comprehend! Thank you for the dishonest thief who stole our new set of tires and rims for our truck which we paid $2000.00 for.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/sports/1130405-brothers-take-top-spots-in-5k-race#.UZoYS_0TC7g.twitter
Hey, this is cool! ^above link^ Good for these two Sackville lads…they stole the show in the 5K over the weekend! Way to represent!
Daenerys
Usually I find seasons of Game of Thrones very slow to start, only getting exciting during the last couple episodes. But this season has been different, I’ve liked almost every episode – even though there have been individual storylines that leave a bit to be desired.
Happy Victoria Day.
In the spirit of the day, I offer up as reading suggestions, novels published this year that are set in the time of Queen Victoria.
Lady of Ashes (M)
by Christine Trent
"In 1861 London, Violet Morgan is struggling to establish a good reputation for the undertaking business that her husband has largely abandoned.
This week the Writers' Union of Canada announced the shortlist for this year's Danuta Gleed Literary Award which recognizes "the best first English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2012".
In a far-out but not implausible future, ambassador-spies Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen alight on the planet of New Amazonia and have to deal with utter chaos. I have finally gotten around to reading Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald which has made me curious about other writer’s spouses. There are biographies about the writers themselves but very few on the wives behind the words.