Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

Pioneering science fiction author and political activist Judith Merril was not one to mince words or follow convention, so it’s no surprise that she bluntly states in her introduction to Better to Have Loved that ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Seldom

By Dawn Rae Downton

Anybody expecting the quaint, feel-good Newfoundland of E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is bound for a surprise in Dawn Rae Downton’s memoir of early 20th-century Newfoundland. Life is a whole lot tougher in this ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Diary Between Friends

By Government of Canada, ed.

The idea of creating a scrapbook of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may seem like a morbid idea at first, but with more media coverage than almost any event in world history, the urge to ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat

By Keath Fraser

Keath Fraser’s voice was a choppy, strangulated, and unintelligible mess. Told for years that his mysterious ailment was psychological, he searched in vain for some inner failing that could explain his affliction. The Vancouver novelist ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

By Warren Cariou

In this good-natured, easygoing memoir, thirtysomething writer Warren Cariou looks back on his rural boyhood in northern Saskatchewan and attempts to capture the ineffable magic of a childhood home. Cariou’s account is leavened by charming ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

When Things Get Back to Normal

By M.T. Dohaney

M.T. Dohaney was calmly watching television when her husband went out to play hockey with friends. The next time she saw him, she was a widow. His sudden on-ice heart attack left Dohaney reeling, both ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

In the Shadow of Silence: From Hitler Youth to Allied Internment: A Young Woman’s Story of Truth and Denial

By Gertrud Mackprang Baer

It is difficult to feel sympathy for someone who voluntarily became a Nazi spy, expected to rat on neighbours, schoolmates, and priests, possibly resulting in their imprisonment or worse. But what if the position was ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Eloise: Letters to a Lost Child

By Loise Lavallee

There’s something about the experience of grieving that memoirs capture particularly well. Perhaps because grief is so little understood, so socially difficult, and because it can take such a surprisingly long time to overcome, the ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Promise of Salt

By Lorie Miseck

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family’s Experience Living in a Haunted House

By Dorah L. Williams

She’s no Stephen King. And she’s no John Robert Colombo (author of a series of books about haunted Ontario). Yet this chilling memoir by Dorah Williams, an ordinary housewife and mother of three, still manages ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

Seldom

A Diary Between Friends

The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

When Things Get Back to Normal

In the Shadow of Silence: From Hitler Youth to Allied Internment: A Young Woman’s Story of Truth and Denial

Eloise: Letters to a Lost Child

A Promise of Salt

Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family’s Experience Living in a Haunted House

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