January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Jo’s Triumph, Nikki Tate’s 10th novel, is an adventurous yarn in the spirit of Mary Downing Hahn’s The Gentleman Outlaw and Me-Eli. Set in Utah in the late 1850s, the novel charts the daring escapades ... Read More »
How the Blessed Live considers a modern family while mirroring mythic relationships that muddle magic and the real world. Susannah Smith opens this first novel with quotes from the myth of Isis and Osiris, and ... Read More »
January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
The opening chapters of Tempting Faith DiNapoli brim with bodily fluids – not surprising, considering that four of the main characters, Matty, Faith, Hope, and Charlie, are all under the age of four. Those fluids ... Read More »
January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Alex, a disillusioned former artist, and Conrad, a manic mid-career artist, are flatmates and sometime lovers in London’s northeast end in transplanted Canadian novelist Jean McNeil’s Private View. It is a skillfully evoked, somewhat sordid ... Read More »
January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
In her first collection of poetry, On Every Stone, Rachel Vigier explores the meaning of disappearance as she reflects on the life and loss of her sister, Micheline, who disappeared October 9, 1988. But the ... Read More »
January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Thought about film editing lately? As the guy who leaves the cuttings on the cutting room floor, Walter Murch has given the final shape to a host of seminal American movies – including The Conversation, ... Read More »
January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
Like the avant-garde musician and writer John Cage, Toronto poet and small-press publisher Jay Millar finds mushrooms fascinating (hence his title, Mycological Studies). Mushrooms offer Millar a tempting metaphor for language and the writing process. ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
The cover of Ending with Music pays tribute to the under-appreciated American poet John Berryman, and the poems contained here reflect some of Berryman’s syntactical inventiveness as well as revealing author Maurice Mierau’s preoccupation with ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Barbara Hodgson’s latest quirky history book uses numerous first-person accounts, diary entries, and amusing bits of historical trivia to describe what it was like to be female and “on the road” in the days when ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
Early in This Heated Place, an Arab acquaintance tells author Deborah Campbell – at the time a Canadian student at Tel Aviv University during the Gulf War – “What you see depends on where you ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History