Feb 7, 2008 in Books, Music and Videos | 4 comments

I just finished reading my first book in almost two years! Essex County (Vol 2): Ghost Stories is a graphic novel about Lou Lebeuf, an old man in Toronto, as he looks back at his life of being alone - both in the big city and back home in Essex County on the family farm. He looks back at nearly seven decades of his life, from playing hockey in the Toronto minor system with his younger brother Vince to his life after hockey where his depression kept him from talking to his mother and family. This was part 2 of a trilogy so I’m looking forward to reading the other two. And the best part about graphic novels, is that you can read them in about an hour!

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Feb 7, 2008 at 11:57 am

Jeff

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You should provide us with the epigraph here

Feb 7, 2008 at 12:38 pm

moe

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In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.

I’ll have to look at the book when I get home tonight. Do you remember what it was?

Feb 7, 2008 at 1:48 pm

Jeff

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Mentions how important the sport is to those growing up in the northern prairie and how it makes them feel alive in such a harsh environment.

Feb 7, 2008 at 4:05 pm

moe

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Ghost Stories Epigraph:

“Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive”

– Stephen Leacock