★ The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

Reporting ringside as The Odyssey and Margaret Atwood square off is pretty intimidating stuff. How to begin passing judgment on one of the first in a new series of books that touts “top-class writers from ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Map of Glass

By Jane Urquhart

On a winter’s night a man stumbles toward a great frozen lake, confused and disoriented. Months later his body, arms outstretched as if in supplication or an embrace, washes up in the retreating ice at ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lizard Cage

By Karen Connelly

You don’t need to start reading Karen Connelly’s latest knowing anything about her Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 1993 or her five books of poetry or her enduring love for the country of Burma. ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cross Bones

By Kathy Reichs; $,

Kathy Reichs received a great deal of attention when her first novel was published. Many compared her to Patricia Cornwell, which was natural given that they each had a forensic scientist as the protagonist in ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crazy About Lili

By William Weintraub

Montreal’s famous Gayety Theatre and the golden age of burlesque come alive in William Weintraub’s novel Crazy About Lili. In this, his fifth book, Weintraub draws upon a youth spent in Montreal and his education ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Wall of Light

By Edeet Ravel

The first two sentences of A Wall of Light lay out the book’s main events with Melvillian aplomb: “I am Sonya Vronsky, professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University, and this is the story of ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Perfect Pledge

By Rabindranath Maharaj

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s sometimes possible to glean quite a bit from its opening sentence. “On the evening the baby was delivered by Mullai, the village midwife, a chain-smoking ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sweet Edge

By Alison Pick

The Sweet Edge chronicles the gender wars as seen through the contemporary lens of poet Alison Pick. Upon first glance, the novel is merely a tale of two self-absorbed, befuddled young people lost in the ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes

By Jaclyn Moriarty

Why are urban fairytales so deliciously appealing to many readers? Maybe it’s the nearness of magic – the girl at the corner store turned mysterious; the neighbourhood cats turned ominous harbingers; the far-away suddenly appearing ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tapas on the Ramblas

By Anthony Bidulka

In Anthony Bidulka’s third Russell Quant mystery, Tapas on the Ramblas, the gay former Saskatoon cop turned private investigator gets off the prairie and takes a case that involves a cruise from Barcelona to Rome, ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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