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52 Titles: Alain de Botton’s “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”

By caniceleung | Published: March 24, 2011
Last year for Christmas, my good friend Jon gave me a copy of Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. When I unwrapped it, I chuckled: I hadn’t been at my first full-time job for long, so it seemed fitting that a book should welcome me into the first years of 30 or [...]
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52 Titles: Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”

By caniceleung | Published: March 23, 2011
Henrietta Lacks was a black woman from Baltimore who died of an aggressive cervical cancer in the 1950s. During her treatment at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins (a free hospital for blacks) and after her death, her malignant cells were taken by hospital researchers without her or her family’s consent. Researchers (not just there but everywhere) were [...]
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52 Titles: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “Tales of a Shipwrecked Sailor”

By caniceleung | Published: March 5, 2011
Part of the reason I started this project was to read more from the authors I already know and love — Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my favourites, and I intend on reading everything that’s been translated from its original Spanish before the year is out. No better place to start than with one of [...]
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A haiku for springtime

By caniceleung | Published: February 14, 2011
The air warms; snow melts, revealing a winter’s worth of unclaimed dog shit.
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Project 52 Titles: Read one book a week

By caniceleung | Published: February 14, 2011
A few months ago, I started a new job at the Toronto Star as a photo editor (leaving my old post as online editor at Metro). I now work four days a week, leaving me with lots of time to putter around the house, eat bonbons, watch Oprah and paint my toenails. Also, I no [...]
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