My copy of Woman: Maiden Wife and Mother is inscribed as part of Mrs Effie Randall's collection, Port Edward Ontario, 1928. It's an oversized hardcover volume and has no publication date, but there is a small slip of paper used as a bookmark, a Quarterly Ticket for August 1890 for
Less than a penny. That's how much it costs to read a single letter of DNA. Between 2000 and 2003, the cost fell from $1.50 to less than a single cent. "Suddenly DNA was mass-market." Random House Canada, 2013 Carolyn Abraham hadn't been saving her pennies for this
Romola sang soprano, but perhaps an opera singer's life after she has retired is, by definition, incidental music. Or, perhaps the fragments of memory that swell and break for a 70-something woman living with dementia are incidental music. Or, the lost love she half-recalls? Maybe that is incidental. Inanna
An old woman for a travelling companion? You might expect what Iain Reid expected in The Truth about Luck. Second Story Press, 2013 "Lots of strolls, time for reading, cups of tea, ten hours of sleep per night, not too much direct sunlight, three square meals a day."
Is it still a radical idea? The notion that the world can no longer afford to oppress half its population. Apparently so. Random House Canada, 2013 Sally Armstrong's work considers the ways in which the world's largest problems -- poverty, conflict and violence -- are being addressed via efforts
