Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist ~ 2013

Dennis Bock - Going Home Again
Lynn Coady - Hellgoing
Craig Davidson - Cataract City
Lisa Moore - Caught
Dan Vyleta - The Crooked Maid

"The first word in fiction for twenty years."

The winner will be announced on CBC live Tuesday, November 5, 9:00 a.m.

Have a safe & happy Hallowe'en.

Pirates infinitely prefer gold and jewels to bales of cloth, however gaudy.

"There is often confusion between the terms 'pirate,' 'buccaneer,' and 'privateer.'  Pirates and buccaneers are criminals, while privateers operate within the bounds of the law.  Pirates and buccaneers do on occasion sail as privateers.  A privateer is a man who sails with a commission known as a letter of marque.  These letters are issued by governments and permit the privateer to take and make prize of enemy ships."  Pirateology, Candlewick Press 2006.


"Woe-betide," the pirate a.k.a Dummy Board, will not be at The Neat L'l Bookshop today.  Stormy seas!
"A short life and a merry one, that's my motto!"  ~ Black Bart Roberts, Condemned for piracy , 1711.
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29 Talbot St. West (Hwy #3)

Bookshop Calendar ~ Readings & Fascinating Personalities:

Nov. 2    Sat.,  7:30  We will be attending "Steel City Stories/Brushes w/Greatness" at
Christ's Church Cathedral in Hamilton.  For details visit Facebook "Steel City Stories."
Nov. 16  Sat., 10:30 - 3:00 Gary McHale  Victory in the No-Go Zone.
Nov. 21  Thu., 1:00 Dr. Alan Bishop ~ Female Poets of World War I.
Dec. 19  Thu., 1:00 Christmas ~ Bring your own item.
Jan. 16   Thu., 1:00 Doris Kienitz East Germany and the Escape.
Feb. 20   Thu., 1:00 Suzanne Hurley Reading from her own mystery novels.
Mar. 20  Thu., 1:00 Neil Paul ~ Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
April 17  Thu., 1:00 Poetry Favourites ~ Bring your own item.

Everyone Welcome ~  "The coffee pot's always on..."  (Please let us know if you would like to be added to our e-mail list for prior reminder of event.  lbwalker@shaw.ca or neatlittlebookshop@gmail.com )

The Black Cat

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"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.  Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.  Yet mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream.  But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul.
"This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body.
"I determined to wall it up in the cellar - as the monks of the Middle Ages are recorded to have walled up their victims.
"For a purpose such as this the cellar was well adapted.  Its walls were loosely constructed, and had lately been plastered throughout with a rough plaster, which the dampness of the atmosphere had prevented from hardening.  Moreover, in one of the walls was a projection, caused by a false chimney, or fireplace, that had been filled up..."

~ *Edgar Allan Poe (d. Oct. 7, 1809, 40 years of age)  American writer. London Oxford University Press.

"In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream."
~ The Hero as Man of Letters

"The true University of these days is a collection of books."
~ The Hero as King

"A good book is the purest essence of a human soul."  ~ Speech in support of the London Library, 1840.

~ Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)  Scottish philosopher, writer, teacher.

~ The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 3rd ed., Oxford University Press.

To my quick ear the leaves conferred;
     The bushes they were bells;
I could not find a privacy
     From Nature's sentinels.

In cave if I presumed to hide,
     The walls began to tell;
Creation seemed a mighty crack
     To make me visible.

~Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) American poet