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Author | : Jack Knox |
Publisher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2022-11-02 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1772034185 |
Victoria’s favourite humourist returns with a hilarious collection of observations on Island living. For more than twenty-five years, Jack Knox’s weekly humour column has captured the essence of life in BC’s picturesque capital city, a.k.a. Dysfunction-by-the-Sea. In Fortune Knox Once, as in his previous humour collections, Knox gathers together his favourite Time Colonist pieces that best sum up the absurdity of our times. The subject matter is all over the map: the lost art of handwriting, the sexiness of the Canadian accent, phone addiction, the Rogue Cow of Metchosin, ugly trucks, ugly people, a parody of end-of-school announcements, and a letter to Prince Harry. The chapter on Pi Day is some of the best math-based humour you will read all week. And while are a dozen pieces on plague-related topics—from dog shortage to doomscrolling to the time Knox dropped his credit card into the saltchuck—COVID appears only in brief glimpses, like a moustache-twirling villain occasionally creeping onto the stage in an old-style British pantomime. Whether you are a born-and-bred Islander who thinks this is all completely normal, or a Mainland transplant lured by the myth of lower housing prices, Fortune Knox Once is the laugh we all need right now.
Author | : Jack Knox |
Publisher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2017-10-13 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1772032093 |
A hilarious collection of Jack Knox's best-loved humour columns. In this side-splitting follow-up to the bestseller Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada, Jack Knox presents his best writing, marking his twenty-year anniversary as a humour columnist at the Victoria Times Colonist, the newspaper that made him a household name. Revisiting his most—and least!—popular columns, Knox weighs the potential benefits of a marijuana-like drug that reduces anxiety in rats; reports on the “Bush Boys,” a pair of brothers who emerged from the forest near Vernon with a dubious story about being raised in the wilderness (they were actually from suburban California); and muses over fictional characters such as Barbie, Ken, Harry Potter, and Archie growing up and facing the grim realities of life. He also includes a hilarious collection of “nastygrams” (a.k.a. hate mail) that he’s received over the past two decades. Opportunity Knox goes to show that humour comes when you least expect it. From politics to weather, sports to entertainment, Knox finds the bizarre in everyday life and the ordinary in what should by all accounts be bizarre.
Author | : Jack Knox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2022-10-18 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781772034172 |
Victoria's favourite humourist returns with a hilarious collection of observations on Island living. For more than twenty-five years, Jack Knox's weekly humour column has captured the essence of life in BC's picturesque capital city, a.k.a. Dysfunction-by-the-Sea. In Fortune Knox Once, as in his previous humour collections, Knox gathers together his favourite Time Colonist pieces that best sum up the absurdity of our times. The subject matter is all over the map: the lost art of handwriting, the sexiness of the Canadian accent, phone addiction, the Rogue Cow of Metchosin, ugly trucks, ugly people, a parody of end-of-school announcements, and a letter to Prince Harry. The chapter on Pi Day is some of the best math-based humour you will read all week. And while are a dozen pieces on plague-related topics--from dog shortage to doomscrolling to the time Knox dropped his credit card into the saltchuck--COVID appears only in brief glimpses, like a moustache-twirling villain occasionally creeping onto the stage in an old-style British pantomime. Whether you are a born-and-bred Islander who thinks this is all completely normal, or a Mainland transplant lured by the myth of lower housing prices, Fortune Knox Once is the laugh we all need right now.
Author | : Margot Fedoruk |
Publisher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2022-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1772033960 |
Shortlisted, Taste Canada Awards 2023 - Culinary Narratives Part love story, part survival story, part meditation on family dysfunction, this offbeat memoir chronicles the unpredictable life of a young wife and mother on Gabriola Island. In 1989, twenty-three-year-old Margot Fedoruk left Winnipeg and her volatile Slavic-Jewish family for the wilds of BC to work as a tree planter and to contemplate her mother’s untimely death from cancer. There, she met Rick Corless, a burly, red-headed sea urchin diver, and soon found herself pregnant and cooking vegetarian meals for meat-eating divers on Rick’s boat, The Buckaroo, as they travelled along the rugged northern BC coastline. Eventually, the unlikely couple settled on Gabriola Island to raise two girls, dig for clams, keep chickens, clean houses, and make soap to sell at the local market. As she washed windows with stunning ocean views, Margot also wiped away lonely tears, determined not to repeat the same mistakes as she had witnessed during her parents’ marriage made in hell. Through dark humour, vivid descriptions, and quirky characters, Margot’s reflections on marriage, motherhood, isolation, food, and family paint an unforgettable portrait of a modern-day fishwife left behind to keep the home fires burning. True to its title, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives is a memoir infused with recipes, from the hearty Eastern European fare of Margot’s childhood to more adventurous coastal BC cuisine.
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Author | : Vicesimus Knox |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
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Author | : Jack Knox |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Canadian wit and humor |
ISBN | : 9781772031492 |
In Hard Knox, seasoned columnist and consummate everyman Jack Knox offers up his uniquely hilarious views on Canadian life as seen from the western fringes of the country--in particular from the "Island of Misfit Toys" as he aptly calls his Vancouver Island home. This treasure trove of west-coast wit and wisdom touches on everything from "smug anti-Americanism" to extreme weather to flagrant public displays of affection in Canada's westernmost capital. Whether you're a born-and-bred Islander, a transplanted Albertan in the throes of culture shock, or a confused tourist, we all have something to learn from the school of Hard Knox.
Author | : Raffaele Sollecito |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451696396 |
Love and death -- Kafka on the Tiber -- The protected section -- Justice -- Epilogue.
Author | : John Holmes Agnew |
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Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1853 |
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Author | : Mark Puls |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0230623883 |
A comprehensive biography of military tactician and later the nation's first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, that chronicles his childhood, military service with the Boston Grenadier Corps, and appointment to Washington's cabinet.