Reviews

Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Story of Louis Riel’s Grandmother

Marie-Anne Lagimodière is an excellent subject for a biography: she was the first white woman to follow her coureur de bois husband into the bush, she witnessed the war between the Hudson’s Bay Company and ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: History

Listening to Trees

By A.K. Hellum

Nostalgic books lamenting the past and the dwindling of our flora and fauna have been thick on the ground recently, and many have been memorable. (Tim Bowling’s The Lost Coast and Terry Glavin’s Waiting for ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Butterfly Mind: Revolution, Recovery, and One Reporter’s Road to Understanding China

By Patrick Brown

The new book by longtime CBC foreign correspondent Patrick Brown could very easily have been three books. First, there are the bare bones of a confessional memoir. Brown is very frank about his struggles with ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Contact Charlie: A Canadian Infantry Company and the Battle of Panjwayi

By Chris Wattie

From May through August 2006, Canadian soldiers fought a running battle against Taliban insurgents in the Panjwayi district southwest of Kandahar, the Afghan provincial capital. In the most intense fighting the Canadian army has conducted ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: History

★ Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient

By Jennifer McLagan

Proponents of low-fat diets have routinely represented animal fats such as butter, lard, beef tallow, chicken skin, suet, and others as veritable poisons to be ruthlessly excised from our diets. Turns out, says Jennifer McLagan ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Bees: Nature’s Little Wonders

By Candace Savage

The latest book by best-selling science writer Candace Savage (Prairie: A Natural History) celebrates bees, arguably the most beloved of all insect groups. We love them, stings and all, for many very good reasons. Bees ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists

By A.K. Prakash

It’s tempting to assume that Canadian women artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries were second-rate, given that the male-dominated canon of art history has portrayed them as such, simply by exclusion. Independent Spirit ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis

By Mike Barnes

Though “oblivion, and states approaching it” may, as Mike Barnes writes in the first of four lengthy essays that make up The Lily Pond, “slide away most determinedly from the very conscious act of writing,” ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ Burma Chronicles

By Guy Delisle

Readers familiar with Guy Delisle’s previous travel memoirs, Shenzhen and Pyongyang, may get a jolt from the cover image of his latest. In it, Delisle’s high-foreheaded and low-shouldered avatar is slouching past a heavily fortified ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

A Hummingbird Dance

By Garry Ryan

On the first anniversary of the murder of First Nations teen Alex Starchild, a cowboy’s horse returns home to its ranch without its rider. It doesn’t take detectives Lane and Harper long to connect the ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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