"It is not good for man to be too much alone unless he is really very big, with stores of knowledge to draw from and a clear brain to think with.  That's the whole problem:  a clear brain that can take thoughts and work them out, can filter -- clean out -- muddy, confused thoughts, can read meanings into things, draw meanings out of things and come to conclusions, a brain that converses with life and can, above all, enable a man to forget himself.  The tendency in being alone and not having anyone to exchange thoughts with is to be always on the fence between yourself and yourself."

~ Emily Carr (1871 - 1945) Hundreds And Thousands.  EMILY CARR COUNTRY Courtney Milne, McClelland & Stewart Ltd. 2001.

May the beauty and spirit of the season remain with you all year.

John and I would like to thank our family and friends for all your support.  We look forward to a new year, 2016.

Never a Christmas morning,

Never the old year ends ~

But someone thinks of someone,

Old days, old times,

old friends.

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

 

 

 



THIRD THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1:00 p.m.  The literary group meets in The Neat Little Bookshop.  Everyone welcome ~the coffee and tea's always on.

THEME:  Bring a token of Christmas ~ a reading, a poem, an item, possibly a family heirloom.

OPTION:  Lunch in The Back 40.   If you did not receive a Third Thursday e-mail and wish to receive it in the future, please email us at neatlittlebookshop@gmail.com

"When they were around ten, eleven, thirteen," he said, "every Saturday night I would get away from my commitments and read to them.  It was our Saturday night together.  I read them Rousseau, history books, poetry, Victor Hugo.  Later, Stendhal, and Tolstoy.  We'd talk about what we read.  Read out loud to each other.  Every Saturday night for years...It was," he paused, "one of the happiest periods of my life.

 

 

 

The New Red & Green at Talbot & Cayuga Streets



Kirk Du Guid interviewed soldiers in the Haldimand area and in their own words published for posterity their stories.

"[Soldiers]  hope by telling their stories they will leave a legacy, so that our youth can understand what happens in conflict, and why people go to 'serve'."
~ Kirk Du Guid.

Other books by Kirk Du Guid THE FIRST COLD CASE, THE FIRST DRUG SQUAD, Du Guid's Anthology and To the Last Round.

The Neat Little Bookshop is pleased to make available a limited quantity of Soldiers' Stories.  We also have limited quantities of THE FIRST DRUG SQUAD and Du Guid's Anthology.  Books by local authors make thoughtful gifts.

The second printing of Soldiers' Stories includes additional special soldier stories.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 ~ The bookshop is closed while we attend a family Christmas event.  We apologize for any inconvenience.  In order to make up some holiday hours, we will open on Monday, December 14, 10:30 to 5:00.
 
Have a safe and happy weekend ~ John and Lorna


REGULAR HOURS:  Wed. to Fri. 10:30 to 5:00.  Sat. 10:30 to 3:00.

Please NOTE:  Third Thursday, DECEMBER 17 will be our regular literary group at 1:00 p.m.  If you did not receive our e-mail monthly notice and wish to have your name added to our list, please let us know.  This month's theme:  Bring a treasured Christmas item ~ a family heirloom perhaps, a special poem, picture ~ whatever feels like Christmas!

 

"NOT FOR SALE"



A for-sale sign went up on the property yesterday.  The bookshop is not for sale.  Regular hours:  Wednesday to Friday 10:30 to 5:00.  Saturday 10:30 to 3:00.

"The chase ended with a gunshot as the drug dealer's car hit a small tree on the apartment building's lawn.  The uniformed O.P.P. officer ran up to the car, ripped the driver's door open, and pulled the suspect out of the vehicle.  Once handcuffed the officer turned him over to a back-up officer and started to search the car. On the floor behind the driver's seat he found a pill bottle containing fifty red and gray capsules.  It was Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (L.S.D.) in a new, powdered form.

Drugs started to invade southern Ontario in quantity in the early 1970's, and the Ontario Provincial Police hierarchy decided it was time to form their first "Drug Squad."  This is the story of how a fledgling Drug Squad might have reacted to a new and hazardous form of policing they had never encountered before."

~ Kirk Du Guid, The First Drug Squad.  First Choice Books, 2012.
Author of Soldiers' Stories, The First Cold Case and Du Guid's Anthology.

{Books published by local authors make thoughtful gifts.}

"Chiefswood" erected in 1853 Home of Pauline Johnson

 

THE IDLERS

 

The sun's red pulses beat,

Full prodigal of heat,

Full lavish of its lustre unrepressed;

But we have drifted far

From where his kisses are,

And in this landward-lying shade we let our paddles rest.

 

The river, deep and still,

The maple-mantled hill,

The little yellow beach whereon we lie,

The puffs of heated breeze,

All sweetly whisper~ These

Are days that only come in a Canadian July.

 

So, silently we two

Lounge in our still canoe,

Nor fate, nor fortune matters to us now"

So long as we alone

May call this dream our own,

The breeze may die, the sail may droop, we care

not when or how.

 

 

~ E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), 1861-1913, Flint and Feather, 1912.