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Laurie Burns

Laurie Burns

Laurie Burns is an English as additional language teacher to immigrants, literacy volunteer and voracious reader living in Halifax.

Hadley Dyer’s Heartbreaking Novel of Secrets, Loss and the Mess of Dishonesty
Fiction, Reviews, Young Readers Reviews March 19, 2018 March 13, 2018

Hadley Dyer’s Heartbreaking Novel of Secrets, Loss and the Mess of Dishonesty

The story has many layers, including George’s depressed and injured father, a lovely friendship with an elderly man and a sweet brother with an adorable Victorian disposition

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Heather Smith’s Naive Voice of Darkness and Hope
Fiction, Reviews, Web exclusives, Young Readers Reviews October 18, 2017 October 17, 2017

Heather Smith’s Naive Voice of Darkness and Hope

This uniquely narrated novel is a quick and beautiful read

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Poetry, Reviews June 19, 2017 June 13, 2017

Otolith: The Tension Between Nature and Humankind

This is a beautiful collection

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Fiction, Reviews June 15, 2017 June 15, 2017

A Bird on Every Tree: 12 Beautiful and Genuine Stories

You can leave, but you will still be tethered to Nova Scotia

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Fiction, Reviews November 21, 2016 November 21, 2016

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Samantha Rideout asks the unanswerable in The People Who Stay

It is a book with a lot of character and a lot of questions, about trying to understand just where you came from, and where you might be going.

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Fiction, Reviews, Web exclusives November 10, 2016 November 10, 2016

For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known – Your Companion on Love’s Gravel Road

This stunning collection will absolutely affect you, and perhaps help you move on from some of the losses you have suffered, realizing with certainty that you are not alone.

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Fiction, Reviews August 8, 2016 August 8, 2016

Carole Langille’s jarring new short stories

These stories will rattle you and perhaps shake you to your core, asking you to take a look at your own life and reflect on how you interact with others.

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