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Rethinking Canadian Aid
Book - 2014
"BOTTOM-LINE:
More rhetoric than real analysis
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PLOT OR PREMISE:
The academic analysis of recent Canadian international development assistance is long on political economy and light on "realities on the ground".
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WHAT I LIKED:
The text had a stro..."
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Rethinking Canadian Aid
Book - 2014
"BOTTOM-LINE:
Expertly done -- time jumps, loops, and body hopping, oh my!
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PLOT OR PREMISE:
A woman dies at a party at a country resort, the solution obvious. But she was actually murdered, and a guest must solve the crime or never leave. Because..."
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"BOTTOM-LINE:
Over-rated as a classic
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PLOT OR PREMISE:
A man observes the comings and goings of a 1920s party host who is both his neighbor and a paramour of his cousin.
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WHAT I LIKED:
It is weird to go back and read this book some 35 years aft..."
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