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Those book are not Free to download.....
I'm currently reading a 19 book Guido Brunetti or Commissario Brunetti series by Donna Leon, that i downloaded absolutely FREE from
Library Genesis
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I am reading 'you can heal your life' by Louise Hayes. This book is a treasure trove of positivity. It's an easy read however, each chapter contains a LOT of amazing and inspirational information.
Stupid thread.. I'm reading CC threads, what the fukk you think I'm reading.
No life besides CC eh?
Why bother readying a book,
I have 500 channels of TV on my DirecTV at home here in Canada..
I read enough source code in a day, html, php, cgi..
Last night my wife was reading an actual book instead of her E-Reader, so I ask her..You been to the Library?
No she says, I bought it at Indigo on Erin Mills when we were in Mississauga...only 18 bucks...
So I go to my favorite book..... source Library Genesis ...and downloaded 4 more from the same author for her e-reader.
I think that convinced her to check with me and my source before impulse shopping for books, because this morning, she hands me a list of books that her friends are saying are good, and I managed to find all but one that was published just about two months ago......
No she says, I bought it at Indigo on Erin Mills when we were in Mississauga...only 18 bucks...
So I go to my favorite book..... source Library Genesis ...and downloaded 4 more from the same author for her e-reader.
I think that convinced her to check with me and my source before impulse shopping for books, because this morning, she hands me a list of books that her friends are saying are good, and I managed to find all but one that was published just about two months ago......
I picked up some Sylvia Plath prose at my local used book store.. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. I am a great fan of her poetry but her prose and short stories are as good.. same kind of subjective, skewed, surreal mysticism. Not sure if its still in print, but and enjoyable and accessible read.
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Dogs in bookstore a controversial chapter
By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 07:33 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 07:44 PM EDT
Who would have thought a Facebook post of a woman with her two poodles inside a bookstore would make fur fly?
Earlier this week, Indigo Books posted an image of a woman with two dogs and the caption: “I came to Indigo this weekend because I was downtown and I wanted to hang out. I love reading but also love spending time with my dogs, and Indigo is a place that allows me to enjoy both of these activities.”
While the post has since been removed, it was met with support and vitriol, according to BlogTO.
“This gives a clear message to those of us with allergies: Your health does matter,” said a sarcastic comment on the post. “Indulging people who can’t leave their dogs at home matters more.”
Another commenter declared that unless it is a legitimate service dog, the animal shouldn’t be allowed in a retail store.
“People need to realize that animals do not belong everywhere,” the person said.
Indigo Books spokesman Kate Gregory said the store’s policy allows customers to bring their dogs inside, with some exceptions such as the cafe areas where food and safety regulation prohibit canines.
“At Indigo, we are animal lovers and always want to avoid animals being left in cars or outside — especially with the hot weather we’ve been having lately. We welcome dogs indoors,” said Gregory on Thursday.
Gregory added that customers are encouraged to alert staff of unleashed dogs or any behavioural issues.
Toronto, frequently touted as a dog-friendly city, apparently only has a handful of mutt-friendly stores, according to the BringFido app — including Sheridan Nurseries, the Shops at Don Mills and Holt Renfrew.
Holt Renfrew is where, in 2014, a toddler was bitten by a Chinese Shar Pei while the child was with her mother in the crowded department store. The little girl suffered three puncture wounds.
Toronto Animal Services spokesman Tammy Robbinson said the city department doesn’t have jurisdiction over dogs in retail stores.
Outside Indigo around lunch hour Thursday, Dan, 66, was walking his 13-year-old blind four-legged companion, Everest.
“You have to be a responsible dog owner,” he said when asked about dogs being allowed inside stores. “You should pick up after him and have him on a leash, follow any rules. Because if you don’t, you’re going to ruin it for everybody.”
jyuen@postmedia.com
Dogs in bookstore a controversial chapter | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun
By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 07:33 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 07:44 PM EDT
Who would have thought a Facebook post of a woman with her two poodles inside a bookstore would make fur fly?
Earlier this week, Indigo Books posted an image of a woman with two dogs and the caption: “I came to Indigo this weekend because I was downtown and I wanted to hang out. I love reading but also love spending time with my dogs, and Indigo is a place that allows me to enjoy both of these activities.”
While the post has since been removed, it was met with support and vitriol, according to BlogTO.
“This gives a clear message to those of us with allergies: Your health does matter,” said a sarcastic comment on the post. “Indulging people who can’t leave their dogs at home matters more.”
Another commenter declared that unless it is a legitimate service dog, the animal shouldn’t be allowed in a retail store.
“People need to realize that animals do not belong everywhere,” the person said.
Indigo Books spokesman Kate Gregory said the store’s policy allows customers to bring their dogs inside, with some exceptions such as the cafe areas where food and safety regulation prohibit canines.
“At Indigo, we are animal lovers and always want to avoid animals being left in cars or outside — especially with the hot weather we’ve been having lately. We welcome dogs indoors,” said Gregory on Thursday.
Gregory added that customers are encouraged to alert staff of unleashed dogs or any behavioural issues.
Toronto, frequently touted as a dog-friendly city, apparently only has a handful of mutt-friendly stores, according to the BringFido app — including Sheridan Nurseries, the Shops at Don Mills and Holt Renfrew.
Holt Renfrew is where, in 2014, a toddler was bitten by a Chinese Shar Pei while the child was with her mother in the crowded department store. The little girl suffered three puncture wounds.
Toronto Animal Services spokesman Tammy Robbinson said the city department doesn’t have jurisdiction over dogs in retail stores.
Outside Indigo around lunch hour Thursday, Dan, 66, was walking his 13-year-old blind four-legged companion, Everest.
“You have to be a responsible dog owner,” he said when asked about dogs being allowed inside stores. “You should pick up after him and have him on a leash, follow any rules. Because if you don’t, you’re going to ruin it for everybody.”
jyuen@postmedia.com
Dogs in bookstore a controversial chapter | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun
Legendary crime writer Max Haines dead at 86
By Mike Strobel, Toronto Sun
First posted: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:42 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, October 01, 2017 12:28 AM EDT
Death was Max Haines’ stock in trade. No one could write murder and mayhem like Max.
In his deft hands, death came alive — for 34 years, 28 books and 2,500 wildly popular Crime Flashback columns in the Sun.
Name the demise and Max wrote about it, with a twinkle and a wry touch: Decapitation, poison, strangling, shooting, stabbing, vats of acid, bludgeoning...
Max made murder fun, death droll.
But there is nothing fun or droll about progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). It is a rare, slow and incurable neurological scourge akin to Parkinson’s disease.
It claimed Max Haines, at age 86, in the wee hours of Saturday at his Etobicoke home.
There never was a newspaperman quite like him. A story-teller without peer.
Funny, but it all started with faulty pantyhose.
Max had sallied forth from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, to conquer the world of women’s undergarments. He set up shop in Toronto. Business was brisk — but brief. One fateful day, Max forgot to check the elastic waistbands on a big shipment of pantyhose leaving his factory.
Soon, a hue and cry arose from women across Canada — and Max looked around for a new career.
His passion was writing true crime stories and in 1972 he walked into the Sun newsroom with a sample, about iconic axe-murder suspect Lizzie Borden. It was the best $15 managing editor Ed Monteith ever spent.
Max, triumphant, returned to his car, where the lovely Marilyn and daughters Susan, Maureen and Eleanor were waiting.
“We all went out for ice cream,” Marilyn tells me Saturday, from her home, as the family gathers.
As any longtime Sun reader knows, Lizzie Borden was just the start. Over three decades, Max’s columns were gathered into books like Bothersome Bodies, Doctors Who Kill, Multiple Murderers II, and Celebrity Murders and Other Nefarious Deeds.
My favourite Max Haines fiends included the snake Bob James, who arranged for a rattler to bite his wife and Englishman John Haigh, who dissolved six victims in sulphuric acid and poured them in his back yard.
The heinous Mr. Haigh did not know gallstones are too gritty even for acid — an oversight that helped hang him.
I asked Max how to commit the perfect murder. (Hypothetically, of course.)
“Move to Texas,” he replied. “Everyone has a gun down there. The good wife always says, ‘Gee I thought it was an intruder and it was dark and I plugged him in the heart.”
“And in Texas, you need two kills to your credit before they take you seriously.”
Max retired in 2006, though Crime Flashback lived on in syndication. The Sun city desk still gets calls from readers demanding his return.
None of those calls, I’ll bet, was from Dennis Melvyn Howe, the presumed killer of Sharin’ Morningstar Keenan. The nine-year-old girl was found strangled in Howe’s rooming house on Brunswick Ave. in 1983, a case that shocked Toronto out of all innocence.
Max never gave up the hunt for Howe, who is now 77 if he’s still in our midst. Max chased lead after lead, kept a mug shot in his wallet and often revisited the case in his column.
“He’s my boogeyman,” Max told me.
Says Marilyn: “Max wanted to find that guy so badly.”
What sweet irony it would be if news of Haines’ death triggers a memory, or stirs a conscience, in someone out there.
What a fitting tribute to Max that would be.
Legendary crime writer Max Haines dead at 86 | SPECIAL TO THE SUN | Toronto & GT
By Mike Strobel, Toronto Sun
First posted: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:42 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, October 01, 2017 12:28 AM EDT
Death was Max Haines’ stock in trade. No one could write murder and mayhem like Max.
In his deft hands, death came alive — for 34 years, 28 books and 2,500 wildly popular Crime Flashback columns in the Sun.
Name the demise and Max wrote about it, with a twinkle and a wry touch: Decapitation, poison, strangling, shooting, stabbing, vats of acid, bludgeoning...
Max made murder fun, death droll.
But there is nothing fun or droll about progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). It is a rare, slow and incurable neurological scourge akin to Parkinson’s disease.
It claimed Max Haines, at age 86, in the wee hours of Saturday at his Etobicoke home.
There never was a newspaperman quite like him. A story-teller without peer.
Funny, but it all started with faulty pantyhose.
Max had sallied forth from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, to conquer the world of women’s undergarments. He set up shop in Toronto. Business was brisk — but brief. One fateful day, Max forgot to check the elastic waistbands on a big shipment of pantyhose leaving his factory.
Soon, a hue and cry arose from women across Canada — and Max looked around for a new career.
His passion was writing true crime stories and in 1972 he walked into the Sun newsroom with a sample, about iconic axe-murder suspect Lizzie Borden. It was the best $15 managing editor Ed Monteith ever spent.
Max, triumphant, returned to his car, where the lovely Marilyn and daughters Susan, Maureen and Eleanor were waiting.
“We all went out for ice cream,” Marilyn tells me Saturday, from her home, as the family gathers.
As any longtime Sun reader knows, Lizzie Borden was just the start. Over three decades, Max’s columns were gathered into books like Bothersome Bodies, Doctors Who Kill, Multiple Murderers II, and Celebrity Murders and Other Nefarious Deeds.
My favourite Max Haines fiends included the snake Bob James, who arranged for a rattler to bite his wife and Englishman John Haigh, who dissolved six victims in sulphuric acid and poured them in his back yard.
The heinous Mr. Haigh did not know gallstones are too gritty even for acid — an oversight that helped hang him.
I asked Max how to commit the perfect murder. (Hypothetically, of course.)
“Move to Texas,” he replied. “Everyone has a gun down there. The good wife always says, ‘Gee I thought it was an intruder and it was dark and I plugged him in the heart.”
“And in Texas, you need two kills to your credit before they take you seriously.”
Max retired in 2006, though Crime Flashback lived on in syndication. The Sun city desk still gets calls from readers demanding his return.
None of those calls, I’ll bet, was from Dennis Melvyn Howe, the presumed killer of Sharin’ Morningstar Keenan. The nine-year-old girl was found strangled in Howe’s rooming house on Brunswick Ave. in 1983, a case that shocked Toronto out of all innocence.
Max never gave up the hunt for Howe, who is now 77 if he’s still in our midst. Max chased lead after lead, kept a mug shot in his wallet and often revisited the case in his column.
“He’s my boogeyman,” Max told me.
Says Marilyn: “Max wanted to find that guy so badly.”
What sweet irony it would be if news of Haines’ death triggers a memory, or stirs a conscience, in someone out there.
What a fitting tribute to Max that would be.
Legendary crime writer Max Haines dead at 86 | SPECIAL TO THE SUN | Toronto & GT
I've just finished the Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green. A very good synopsis of the 2016 Election Campaign and surprisingly well balanced for a Bloomberg correspondent.
It circles around the complex personality of Steve Bannon who came from an orthodox and devout Catholic background, the Navy, Goldman Sachs, Hong Kong video games markets, Hollywood and Breitbart News to become one of most radically independent and innovative characters in the American conservative movements.
It's a wild bull ride and a compelling read whatever your political inclinations. It ends on a pessimistic note of prospects the Trump vision but doesn't press its prognosis.
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Bargain-Bannon-Storming-Presidency-ebook/dp/B0728KHFD5
It circles around the complex personality of Steve Bannon who came from an orthodox and devout Catholic background, the Navy, Goldman Sachs, Hong Kong video games markets, Hollywood and Breitbart News to become one of most radically independent and innovative characters in the American conservative movements.
It's a wild bull ride and a compelling read whatever your political inclinations. It ends on a pessimistic note of prospects the Trump vision but doesn't press its prognosis.
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Bargain-Bannon-Storming-Presidency-ebook/dp/B0728KHFD5
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Last night my wife was reading an actual book instead of her E-Reader, so I ask her..You been to the Library?
No she says, I bought it at Indigo on Erin Mills when we were in Mississauga...only 18 bucks...
So I go to my favorite book..... source Library Genesis ...and downloaded 4 more from the same author for her e-reader.
I think that convinced her to check with me and my source before impulse shopping for books, because this morning, she hands me a list of books that her friends are saying are good, and I managed to find all but one that was published just about two months ago......
I was in that store when it was under construction but not since. They have books in there, now?
Yup, and a Starbuck on the front corner of the building facing Eglington.
They also have e-readers and covers, I bought a hard cover for my e-reader when I was there.
They also have e-readers and covers, I bought a hard cover for my e-reader when I was there.
Ex-Toronto escort pens memoir: Modern Whore
Jane Stevenson
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December 9, 2017
Updated:
December 9, 2017 7:03 PM EST
Former Toronto escort Andrea Werhun with her book Modern Whore on Thursday December 7, 2017. Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun/Postmedia NetworkVeronica Henri / Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun
Andrea Werhun, who grew up middle-class in Toronto’s St. Clair W. neighbourhood, says she knew from a very early age she wanted to be a sex worker.
“I felt it when I was 20,” said Werhun, a fresh-faced 28-year-old brunette who looks years younger.
“Earlier, I worked at cafes and restaurants so my experience there as an 18-year-old, recognizing if I wore a little cleavage and I smiled and laughed at the jokes of the customer, I’d get a bigger tip. And realizing, ‘Oh, I’m kind of selling my sexuality here. Why not get straight to the point and I’d make a lot more money?’”
Former Toronto escort Andrea Werhun with her book Modern Whore on Thursday December 7, 2017. (Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun)
Werhun’s short time in the world’s oldest profession under the pseudonym “Mary Ann” — and while she got her BA at the University of Toronto, no less — is documented in her new book, Modern Whore; A Memoir, (released Dec. 6).
Modern Whore
In addition to chronicling some of her clients, ranging from the dangerous (Walter Wack) to the enthusiastic (a Muskoka C-list celebrity and his wife) to the stinky (a die-hard Leafs fan), the book also includes photos (some racy, some not) of Werhun, also a performer-actress, taken by filmmaker Nicole Bazuin.
We caught up with Werhun, whose escort job is known by her parents (dad is a retired CN worker and mom is a staunch Catholic), brother and organic farmer boyfriend, at Postmedia’s offices.
Tell me about the book title?
“(‘Whore’ is) used to put women down and put them in their place which is to not challenge power — power being men. I wish to reclaim the word because it’s so charged and it’s so powerful and instead of letting it be something that rules me I want to be something that rules it.”
What was your first time as an escort like?
“The first session I ever did, I was terrified. I was scared. As soon as the guy opened the door — he was a short man with a lazy eye — I was like, ‘Oh, OK, I get this.’ Like, ‘I’m not scared.’”
You’ve changed the names of your clients but did you work for any famous people?
“They wouldn’t be household names, I don’t think. Some of them would be local Toronto bigwigs. And, of course, I can’t reveal any of that information. I don’t think there’s anyone at this point in my life that I would be interested in outing. I think it’s disrespectful as an escort to betray that trust. But I didn’t feel like anything that happened in those sessions were worthy of outing anybody.”
Your worked for an agency, had a driver, and charged $260 an hour (with your take home of $160). It seems way more organized and safe than I might have thought.
“The risk is that (escorts) could get murdered if they don’t know who they’re seeing. And I can’t say with 100% certainty that the screening process at my agency was terribly rigorous. But over two years of working, I only had two negative experiences. That’s pretty good odds considering how much sex I was having.”
Former Toronto escort Andrea Werhun with her book Modern Whore on Thursday December 7, 2017. Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network
Why did you want to write this book?
“I’m white. I’m educated. I’m middle-class. I’m pretty. I’ll survive after coming out as a sex worker but there are so many people who do not have that freedom. I could have done this secretly and never told this story but it feels to me a responsibility because I have that power and that privilege and the entitlement of being who I am that I can get away with this. I have to tell these stories because sex workers remain one of the most marginalized communities all over the world.”
What do you think about “the silence breakers” named TIME’s person of the year for 2017?
“It’s exciting to live in a time where women feel empowered enough to speak out and are not going to be shamed for saying something.”
Would you ever return to sex work?
“I don’t think I could ever really say I would never be sex worker again because sex work is flexible, well-paid work. If I was given the right opportunity with a really interesting person that I felt safe with, then I would consider it.”
What else do you want to do?
“I’d love to be a writer til I die. I’d like to get into publishing. And I also love performing. Nicole and I started out our own publishing house. Our media company basically is called Virgin Twins and we want to do a few things with it and it includes TV and film work.”
jstevenson@postmedia.com
Ex-Toronto escort pens memoir: Modern Whore | Toronto Sun
Jane Stevenson
Jane Stevenson
More from Jane Stevenson
Published:
December 9, 2017
Updated:
December 9, 2017 7:03 PM EST
Former Toronto escort Andrea Werhun with her book Modern Whore on Thursday December 7, 2017. Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun/Postmedia NetworkVeronica Henri / Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun
Andrea Werhun, who grew up middle-class in Toronto’s St. Clair W. neighbourhood, says she knew from a very early age she wanted to be a sex worker.
“I felt it when I was 20,” said Werhun, a fresh-faced 28-year-old brunette who looks years younger.
“Earlier, I worked at cafes and restaurants so my experience there as an 18-year-old, recognizing if I wore a little cleavage and I smiled and laughed at the jokes of the customer, I’d get a bigger tip. And realizing, ‘Oh, I’m kind of selling my sexuality here. Why not get straight to the point and I’d make a lot more money?’”
Former Toronto escort Andrea Werhun with her book Modern Whore on Thursday December 7, 2017. (Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun)
Werhun’s short time in the world’s oldest profession under the pseudonym “Mary Ann” — and while she got her BA at the University of Toronto, no less — is documented in her new book, Modern Whore; A Memoir, (released Dec. 6).
Modern Whore
In addition to chronicling some of her clients, ranging from the dangerous (Walter Wack) to the enthusiastic (a Muskoka C-list celebrity and his wife) to the stinky (a die-hard Leafs fan), the book also includes photos (some racy, some not) of Werhun, also a performer-actress, taken by filmmaker Nicole Bazuin.
We caught up with Werhun, whose escort job is known by her parents (dad is a retired CN worker and mom is a staunch Catholic), brother and organic farmer boyfriend, at Postmedia’s offices.
Tell me about the book title?
“(‘Whore’ is) used to put women down and put them in their place which is to not challenge power — power being men. I wish to reclaim the word because it’s so charged and it’s so powerful and instead of letting it be something that rules me I want to be something that rules it.”
What was your first time as an escort like?
“The first session I ever did, I was terrified. I was scared. As soon as the guy opened the door — he was a short man with a lazy eye — I was like, ‘Oh, OK, I get this.’ Like, ‘I’m not scared.’”
You’ve changed the names of your clients but did you work for any famous people?
“They wouldn’t be household names, I don’t think. Some of them would be local Toronto bigwigs. And, of course, I can’t reveal any of that information. I don’t think there’s anyone at this point in my life that I would be interested in outing. I think it’s disrespectful as an escort to betray that trust. But I didn’t feel like anything that happened in those sessions were worthy of outing anybody.”
Your worked for an agency, had a driver, and charged $260 an hour (with your take home of $160). It seems way more organized and safe than I might have thought.
“The risk is that (escorts) could get murdered if they don’t know who they’re seeing. And I can’t say with 100% certainty that the screening process at my agency was terribly rigorous. But over two years of working, I only had two negative experiences. That’s pretty good odds considering how much sex I was having.”
Former Toronto escort Andrea Werhun with her book Modern Whore on Thursday December 7, 2017. Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network
Why did you want to write this book?
“I’m white. I’m educated. I’m middle-class. I’m pretty. I’ll survive after coming out as a sex worker but there are so many people who do not have that freedom. I could have done this secretly and never told this story but it feels to me a responsibility because I have that power and that privilege and the entitlement of being who I am that I can get away with this. I have to tell these stories because sex workers remain one of the most marginalized communities all over the world.”
What do you think about “the silence breakers” named TIME’s person of the year for 2017?
“It’s exciting to live in a time where women feel empowered enough to speak out and are not going to be shamed for saying something.”
Would you ever return to sex work?
“I don’t think I could ever really say I would never be sex worker again because sex work is flexible, well-paid work. If I was given the right opportunity with a really interesting person that I felt safe with, then I would consider it.”
What else do you want to do?
“I’d love to be a writer til I die. I’d like to get into publishing. And I also love performing. Nicole and I started out our own publishing house. Our media company basically is called Virgin Twins and we want to do a few things with it and it includes TV and film work.”
jstevenson@postmedia.com
Ex-Toronto escort pens memoir: Modern Whore | Toronto Sun
I tripped over this book in a used book store. It's still in print. It's a terrific account of the monastic and episcopal early history of Ireland. The two were often in a bitter rivalry. It has evocative portraits of early saints of both, especially in their respective archetypes of Columcille (St. Columba) and Padraig (St. Patrick) amongst the violent clan conflicts of the Irish Dark Ages. It contains beautiful black and white photographs of the shores, barrens and ruins of Ireland which augment its mystic quality. It is a totally absorbing read.
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Now on book 2 of a 19 books, Scotland yard inspector mystery series by Elizabeth George...
Not bad so far..
Not bad so far..
