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Location: Dundas, Ontario Canada
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21st Century Renaissance Man, Jack of all Trades, Master of None:
Music, choral singing, Philately, Wilderness camping in all four seasons, hiking, canoeing Reading (historical fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, popular science and thrillers) Weight-liftin… Read more
21st Century Renaissance Man, Jack of all Trades, Master of None:
Music, choral singing, Philately, Wilderness camping in all four seasons, hiking, canoeing Reading (historical fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, popular science and thrillers) Weight-lifting, aerobics and fitness (at least I try hard!)
Educational, uplifting and immensely entertaining!
Jeremy Siepmann and Naxos Records have created a truly winning recipe with their "Life and Works" series. The combination of an audio book with music is an extraordinarily powerful and compelling way of bringing the biography of a classical musician to life and, at the same time, making the music accessible to a wide audience who may never have had the privilege of listening to some of the greatest music ever written.
In Josef Haydn, we are treated to the story of a modest unassuming man, born of modest parents (his father worked as a wheelwright). As an employee of the Esterhazy family (one might almost argue that… Read more
As part of the long-running Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitzky series, "Nothing but the Truth" falls completely flat for me and is an utter failure as a legal "thriller"!
San Francisco attorney, Dismas Hardy is shocked to find out that his wife has been jailed for contempt when she refuses to answer a question posed to her in a grand jury investigation of a recent murder. The prosecuting attorney, definitely on a legal fishing expedition behind the closed doors of the grand jury, asked her about a conversation that she had with a friend who was a potential murder suspect. Because the friend had told her a secret in absolute confidence, she utterly refused to answer the question and… Read more
Abby Dolan was a highly skilled female physician with plenty of upward mobility on the horizon at a major San Francisco teaching hospital. With no small amount of trepidation and introspection, she reluctantly changed jobs in order to be with her boyfriend, Josh, and accepted a position as head of the emergency room at Patience Regional Hospital, a much smaller hospital located in the mountains north of San Francisco that caters to the localized needs of the citizens of Patience.
It isn't long before Abby realizes that something simply isn't right. She's seeing an alarming number of NIWWs - her medical black humour shorthand for charting symptoms when she has "No Idea What's… Read more
An eclectic combination of "off the beaten track" titles nominated by the members of the Yahoo reading group "Classic Sci-Fi" for their group read in April 2007.
These were the nominations for the March 2007 group read for the Yahoo Classic Sci-Fi list ... a fine group if I do say so myself! The list is a great one if you're only interested in the titles but it's still a work in progress as far as comments and guidance are concerned. Bookmark the list and&hellip Read more
The Victorian era , generally agreed to cover the reign of Queen Victoria (surprise!) from 1837-1901, has appeal for many of us as a kinder, gentler age in which men were gentlemen, ladies were a more sophisticated and lady-like group of ladies and conduct between friends and even rivals or enemies&hellip Read more
