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While driving from Dorset to Maynooth, we happened upon a tiny used "bookshop" on highway 60 in Algonquin Park. It was more like a little trailer (a treasure island to me, if you will ;), run by a tiny old lady that was also selling some knitted things. Everything was priced $1 or 50 cents, and there were a whole bunch of old children's books with excellent cover art (one of my very weak spots). I bought a whole pile and threw them into the back seat of the car.

Here is one of them:

DAVY

This little treasure was only 25 cents (from Owl's Nest)!

Owl's Nest, Fredericton

One of the best, most chaotic and interesting used bookstores I've ever visited --------- owlsnest-bookstore.com

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BOOKS READ 2011

1. Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
2. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
3. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
4. City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance by Haifa Zangana
5. Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
6. Ghost Pine: All Stories True by Jeff Miller
7. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
8. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
9. The Walking Dead Vol. 13: Too Far Gone by Robert Kirkman
10. Minna Canth: Pioneer Reformer by Ritva Heikkila (English translation by Paul Sjoblom
11. Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Toronto edited by Dave Meslin, Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox
12. Reunion by Pascal Girard
13. Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman
14. Berlin: City of Stones - Book One by Jason Lutes
15. Moomin Book Two by Tove Jansson
16. Berlin: City of Smoke - Book Two by Jason Lutes
17. Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir by Graham Roumieu
18. The Walking Dead Vol. 14: No Way Out by Robert Kirkman
19. The Baltic Quintet: Poems from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden edited by Edita Page
20. Fair Play by Tove Jansson
21. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
22. Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
23. Moomin Book Three by Tove Jansson
24. Drawn In: A peek into the inspiring sketchbooks of 44 fine artists, illustrators, graphic designers and cartoonists - presented by Julia Rothman

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Field Trip: The Russian Avant-Garde

Finally got around to seeing the Chagall & The Russian Avant-Garde exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. It wasn't spectacular, but there were a few highlights in the show, making it a (mostly) worthwhile visit...

One of my most favourite artists is El Lissitzky, so I was quite excited to see this piece, up close and in real life!


I must confess, seeing it resulted in a lot of smiling (inside and out) and wide-eyed gawking!

And Rodchenko, love love love his work as well:



There was also a separate and smaller exhibit being shown entitled Constructing Utopia: Books and Posters from Revolutionary Russia (1910-1940). This collection definitely contained more of the kind of work I was interested in seeing:

Very Small Selection from U.K. Notebook... + Tom

While I was in Scotland. I fell upon Analogue Books...


where I surprisingly discovered a book made by my friend Tom Cops!...


Of course I bought it, and finally met the guy several days later, for real, in person for the first time ever, after being zine penpals for over a decade!

DRAWN IN

Recently completed reading/perusing Drawn In: A Peek into the Inspiring Sketchbooks of 44 Fine Artists, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, and Cartoonists. A project by Julia Rothman.

Below are a couple of the artists who really stood out for me:

Isaac Tobin:






Leif Parsons: