Reviews

When All You Have Is Hope

By Frank O’Dea with John Lawrence Reynolds

Meet Frank O’Dea, co-founder of Second Cup, Landmines International, and CANFAR, former alcoholic and streetperson, pilot, political wonk, husband, father, and motivational speaker. With this book, he adds “published author” to the list – but ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Orpheus Lost

By Janette Turner Hospital

In Orpheus Lost, Australian-born author Janette Turner Hospital attempts to rework the titular myth to frame a story of love and terror in the post-9/11 age. Though the idea is ambitious and interesting, the book ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win

By Warren Kinsella

The War Room, the latest book by longtime political operative Warren Kinsella, purports to be a guide of sorts, but a more accurate subtitle would have been “You Just Paid Nearly 30 Bucks to Have ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Safe Haven: The Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World

By Larry Gaudet

Larry Gaudet’s Safe Haven, a rambling treatise about searching for places of refuge from a hectic society, is too long by at least half. Gaudet, the author of the novels Media Therapy and The Peacekeeper’s ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine

By Mark Paterson

Mark Paterson’s second book is a punchy, off-kilter, and highly imaginative collection of stories, worthy of mention for its title alone. Briskly paced and with an overriding sense of immediacy, A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Hole Show

By Maya Merrick

My world seemed to quiver slightly after finishing Maya Merrick’s newest novel, The Hole Show. Merrick’s story reads like a fairy tale twisted inside out, or an afterschool special directed by Larry Clark, with choreography ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Violence in Canadian Homes

By Brian Vallée

At a time when the tally of women killed by their male partners far outnumbers the victims of terrorist acts, Brian Vallée’s book would seem a welcome perspective on a global crisis so commonplace that ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Good Lie

By D.F. Bailey

Had Crime and Punishment been set in contemporary Victoria, B.C., it might very well have ended up as The Good Lie. And while D.F. Bailey’s prose may not match Dostoevsky’s, he does exceedingly well at ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts: The Family Saga of a Chinese Woman Doctor

By Li Qunying, Louis Luping Han

In the last century, China has undergone considerable political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts, Li Qunying, a former member of the Communist army, delivers a memoir that recounts ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Where White Horses Gallop

By Beatrice MacNeil

The tradition of storytelling in Canada finds its deepest roots along the country’s East Coast. And it is here, upon the rugged coastline of Cape Breton, that Beatrice MacNeil sets the stage for her latest ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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