Reviews

The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother – the True Story of Canada’s Infamous Bathtub Girls

Most true crime books fall somewhere between the poles of sensationalism and a careful weighing of the evidence and facts. The Class Project, by veteran Toronto Star reporter Bob Mitchell, is no exception. In ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English

By Mark Abley

Radical changes are taking place in language in nearly every corner of the globe, but Mark Abley believes we are asking the wrong questions about the phenomenon. Instead of lamenting linguistic decline, Abley thinks we ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

By Stephen R. Bown

The story of George Vancouver – gifted navigator, lifelong mariner, and bewildered captain – is told here in Stephen Bown’s sympathetic popular history about the man who mapped more than 1,700 miles of Pacific coastline ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: History

KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art

By Bruce Grenville, ed.

Launched in tandem with an ambitious exhibit of the same name at the Vancouver Art Gallery, KRAZY! aims to break down contemporary visual culture into seven distinct areas, including those noted in the book’s subtitle. ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Myself Through Others

By David Watmough

This memoir by David Watmough, the Vancouver writer best known for 10 novels featuring his fictional alter ego Davey Bryant, is a strange affair. It presents itself, with only intermittent success, as a series of ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself

By Russell Wangersky

“The fronts of houses lie,” Russell Wangersky writes in the first chapter of Burning Down the House, his memoir of volunteer firefighting in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, “they’re the faces you’re meant to see.” What ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika

By Christopher Shulgan

Toronto journalist Christopher Shulgan’s The Soviet Ambassador is a compelling and detailed account of the life and ideological development of Alexander Yakovlev, the man thought to be a key figure in shaping Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: History

Clan of the Dung Sniffers

By Lee Danielle Hubbard

Victoria author Lee Danielle Hubbard is a newcomer to the Canadian speculative fiction scene. The poet and art history student’s first novel, Clan of the Dung Sniffers – yes, that’s really the title – is ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

We Could Be Like That Couple…

By Sarah Steinberg

Montreal author Sarah Steinberg’s first book is a collection of stories about girls and young women on the outside, in worlds that are all about being on the inside – ballet classes, ocean cruises, university ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Wit in Love

By Sky Gilbert

About 10 pages into Wit in Love, I began to feel a vague sense of dread. Prolific playwright and novelist Sky Gilbert’s newest work, an epistolary novella, based on the life of gay philosopher Ludwig ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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