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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Great Read!,
By annemarie (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada (Paperback)
I was expecting a comedic travelogue- and I got it. But along the way we learn so much more. Ferguson tells touching stories of his friends and family or characters he discovers, with their special brand of quirkiness and eccentricity that makes me proud to be Canadian. We learn the history of the areas he visits and how they make Canada the country we have today. But all the while you are drawn along on an incredible road trip, with a variety of travel companions, that remind us of the road trips we took with our parents way back when.I recommend this book to anyone who wants to laugh out loud and gain a deeper insight into our home and native land. I hope there will be a volume two, because it ended far too soon.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Does the stripy woolen toque make me pretty?,
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This review is from: Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada (Hardcover)
Beauty Tips from Moose JawBy Will Ferguson I love this author! Will Ferguson co-wrote the book How to Be a Canadian, which was also filled with his unique brand of irreverent humor and charm. In his new book, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Will takes us to visit what he calls the 'outposts' of Canada, starting west and heading east. I particularly like travel books, especially those sprinkled with a little history. With this author you get the added benefit of feeling like you actually accompanied him on his travels - saw the majesty and diversity of the Canadian scenery and smelled the awful stench of threes days enclosed in a tour bus with an unemptied Porta-Potty. He doesn't tell it like a glossy tourism brochure, he tells it like it is, real. The realness of the locales and the realness of the locals, just entices you to visit his favorite places all the more. I found this book is best enjoyed while actually wearing a striped wooly toque to get one in the proper mood. Canadian symbology, the things that identify us as a nation, such as the polar bears of Churchill, the humble canoe, the mighty Hudson Bay, which most Canadians will never see, much less dip their big toe into, are talked about with fondness and many interesting nuggets of information. Knowing such details makes an immigrant to this country such as myself, feel all the more...well...Canadian. Ferguson also delves into the Canadian psyche, which started out as a "garrison mentality" in the early days of settlement and hasn't changed that much over the years. How many of us choose to cocoon ourselves in our living rooms with our rental movies, books, video games and popcorn most winter evening weekends, garrisoned away from the cold, dark expanses of nothingness for miles around each direction of our own little outposts? Put this book on your reading list this winter and you won't be disappointed. Buy the book here at Amazon or support your local library. Homemade, striped toques can sometimes be found at your local Farmer's Market :-)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
So Funny!,
By Jenny (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada (Paperback)
Awesome Author! I read "How to be a Canadian" before this one, and my family thought I was crazy because I was laughing out loud!Beauty Tips is excellent, not just from a humourous perspective, but I learned so much about my country from reading it! I loved reading the section on Victoria (my hometown)! But it was so interesting to read all of it! It was like a textbook that I totally enjoyed reading!
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