network.nationalpost.com - 7/3/2009
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Meet Vanessa Brown, who finished in second place in Canada’s first national book-collecting contest . Last Wednesday, Brown was presented with a $1,000 cheque for her
collection The L.M. Montgomery Collection in the Forest City . The contest,
which was seeking Canada's best book collectors ...
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Friday Bookish Buzz: Spending July in an Ark
book-a-rama —
... the only author to suffering from Foot-in-Mouth disease this week. *It's a book written by a fictional writer who writes fiction. You follow? *Awful Library Books: outdated books culled from libraries. A blog we can shake our heads and laugh about. *John @ The Book Mine Set started a Canadian Book Trading Post. No canoe or portaging required. Great for your 3rd Canadian Books Challenge picks. *There's hope for us all. Vanessa Brown wins Canada's 1st book-collecting contest. I bet she's going to buy books with that ...
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Bookninja —
... . Apparently knowing how to make sandwich pinwheels was part of the gig? I want to buy the friendship of Vanessa Brown, avid rare LM Montgomery book collector, thanks to this NP profile . Hello Kilmeny of the Orchard 1910 edition! Invite me over, Vanessa, and I will try not to commit armed robbery. Ian McDonald’s sci-fi homage to Mars, Desolation Road , is ‘brilliant’ and ‘epic’ ...
Canada’s top under 30 book collectors
Reading Copy Book Blog —
The National Post profiles the top three rare book collectors from a contest to find Canada’s best book collectors under the age of 30.
Winner - Charlotte Ashley
2nd place - Vanessa Brown
3rd place - Naseem Hrab
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