Wednesday 13 March 2013

A Joe Barley Mystery

I have discovered a new Canadian author that I felt it my duty to comment upon.:

Title of book: The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn, A Joe Barley Mystery
Author: Eric Wright, former Professor, Chair of English Department and Dean of Arts
Main character: Joe Barley, English Language Arts Sessional Instructor and Part-time Detective (to supplement his meagre Sessional Instructor pay)
Joe Barley's live-in girlfriend Carole:  Loves to read and works her entire life, career and social life around her reading and how it relates to her reading (sounds a lot like me)
Joe's militant sessional-instructor activist colleague: Richard

Not to mention that the work is short and extremely funny. You don't have to work in academia to love this book. I am now reading two of his other books and he's written many.

3 comments:

  1. Hi, just found you....not even sure where (you know, you follow one person's blog roll, to another, to another...

    Interesting approach! I'm becoming a follower of Mark's primal approach, and doing quite well. Now starting to obsess about organic, too.

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  2. Hi Gwen:
    I'm very casual about blogging and it's a place where I can rant if I want to. I have a great bunch of blog links to the right and Mark is one of my favorites.

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