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William Hessel Library notes, tips, and musings.: New Books 5/27/2009

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Wed, 2009-05-27 08:53
Cassette 813.54 K788o -- Obasan by Joy Kogawa. DVD. DVD 791.4372 M1214 -- McCabe & Mrs. Miller. VHS. Video 158.1 A11112 -- 10 ways to overcome procrastination. Video 179.9 S4652 v.1 & v.2 -- Self-esteem & peak performance ...

Rose City Reader: List of the Day: Erica Jong's List of the Top ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Thu, 2009-05-21 07:00
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood My

John Asfour, Kogawa House writer-in-residence gives reading at ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Wed, 2009-05-20 14:17
John Asfour, Kogawa House writer-in-residence gives reading at Vancouver Public Library with Marcus Youssef and Adrienne Wong of Neworld Theatre. John Asfour strums his oud (arabic lute), while Neworld Theatre's Marcus Youssef and ...

The Resilient Japanese Canadian :: tyeebooks.ca

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Tue, 2009-05-19 17:19
Activists rally to defend home of celebrated author Joy Kogawa. Terrorism: Today's 'Yellow Peril'? Author Roy Miki studied the official language that stripped his Japanese Canadian family of rights. He sees lessons for today. ...

Musings of a Bookish Kitty: Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Tue, 2009-05-19 00:00
I would later read the novel Obasan by Joy Kogawa, a fictional account of one family's experiences in an internment camp in Canada. The novel was drawn in large part on the author's own real life experiences. Up until that point, ...

GungHaggisFatChoy :: Gung Haggis Fat Choy, a scholarly take as ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Sat, 2009-05-16 15:16
Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, Media Inquiries Call Gung Haggis Productions 778-846-7090 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team ...

Poet John Asfour, Kogawa House writer-in-residence joins Neworld ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Thu, 2009-05-14 17:24
John Asfour with "Joy Kogawa" and Judy Rebick at the April event for Historic Joy Kogawa House inaugural writer-in-residence programming. - photo Todd Wong. Two more events with John Asfour will round out his third and final month in ...

The Readers' Cafe: The Princess Bride

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Wed, 2009-05-06 16:34
Obasan by Joy Kogawa 12. A Canadian family of Japanese ancestry faces prejudice, the loss of their possessions, and internment during World War II. Collected Poems by Phillip Larkin 12. Larkin is a post-war British poet with a dark ...

GungHaggisFatChoy :: Todd Wong's video application to be one of ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Wed, 2009-05-06 15:30
Last year, I recieved the BC Community Achievement Award, for my work saving historic Joy Kogawa House, creating Gung Haggis Fat Choy, as well as community work for dragon boats and speaking at Terry Fox Runs, as a cancer survivor. ...

GungHaggisFatChoy :: Todd Wong aka Toddish McWong wants to be an ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Sun, 2009-05-03 23:13
Todd Wong aka "Toddish McWong" creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, stands on guard with Constable Bob Underhill, and Joy Kogawa at the 2006 "Order of Canada Luncheon" hosted by the Canadian Club for which Todd is a director. ...

GungHaggisFatChoy :: Gung Haggis dragon boat team opens racing ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Sat, 2009-05-02 23:46
Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, Media Inquiries Call Gung Haggis Productions 778-846-7090 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team ...

floating in a black balloon: obasan.

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Fri, 2009-05-01 09:44
If I could follow the stream down and down to the hidden voice, would I come at last to the freeing word? I ask the night sky but the silence is steadfast. There is no reply." - Joy Kogawa. Posted by goodnightsam at 12:44 PM ...

The Book Mine Set: The 3rd Canadian Book Challenge- 10th Update

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Thu, 2009-04-30 21:01
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews Aaron - The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson - The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill - The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay - Fruit by Brian Francis Orchidus - Obasan by Joy Kogawa ...

The Prodigal Pawn: A new game analysis...and I get a case of ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Thu, 2009-04-30 20:33
Autobiography of a Face-Lucy Grealy; Me Talk Pretty One Day-David Sedaris; Blue Like Jazz-Donald Miller; I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story-Hank Aaron; Obason-Joy Kogawa; A Prayer For Owen Meany-John Irving; For Whom The Bell ...

The Prodigal Pawn: Fischer Random Chess....Can it help or hurt ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Wed, 2009-04-29 01:13
Autobiography of a Face-Lucy Grealy; Me Talk Pretty One Day-David Sedaris; Blue Like Jazz-Donald Miller; I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story-Hank Aaron; Obason-Joy Kogawa; A Prayer For Owen Meany-John Irving; For Whom The Bell ...

GungHaggisFatChoy :: Al Purdy Party at Joy Kogawa House with ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Thu, 2009-04-23 12:35
AL PURDY PARTY at Joy Kogawa House 2009_April_Kogawa 059 by you. Shelagh Rogers (host of "The Next Chapter" on CBC Radio), Jean Baird (organizer of "Save Al Purdy A-Frame"), George Bowering (Jean's husband and first poet laureate of ...

Peace Philosophy Centre: An Article 9 Event in Toronto

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Tue, 2009-04-21 10:08
After the film,author Joy Kogawa will share her insights about war, peace and Article 9. Dr. Peter Kuznick will talk about his work of helping Americans face their past crimes, particularly the use of atomic-bombs against Japan,and the ...

GungHaggisFatChoy :: Al Purdy Party at Joy Kogawa House features 3 ...

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Fri, 2009-04-17 23:58
intercultural and multicultural fusion, celebrating Canadianess. Todd Wong's adventures in multicultural Vancouver, and the home of Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner and the Gung Haggis Fat Choy ...

Judy Rebick comes to Joy Kogawa House

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Thu, 2009-04-16 20:16
Meet Judy Rebick. Special guest at Historic Joy Kogawa House with writer-in-residence John Asfour from www.kogawahouse.com When: 5 pm, Friday, April 17 Where: 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver. Admission by donation. Space is limited. ...

montreal: buy some books and help a poor student out

Joy Kogawa - Google Blog Search - Mon, 2009-04-13 17:29
Obasan - Joy Kogawa - $5. Divus Augustus - Suetonius (Latin edition) - $15. Medea and Other Plays - Euripides - $7 (third hand now, but all still intact) Greek Tragedies- Grene and Latimore - $15. Folk & Fairy Tales - various - $25 ...
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