Reviews

Rage Therapy

With Rage Therapy, Vancouver ER physician-turned-author Daniel Kalla has delivered a credible and satisfying thriller. In the tradition of other gifted moonlighters (Kathy Reichs, John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell, etc.), Kalla successfully blends an inventive story ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Absolute Honour

By C.C. Humphreys

For readers unfamiliar with Jack Absolute, he is the quintessential adventure hero: a dashing, quick-witted ladies’ man and adept codebreaker who’s always ready for a fight. Jack Absolute originally appeared in Richard Sheridan’s 1775 play ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Every Fear

By Rick Mofina

Every Fear is the second of Arthur Ellis Award-winner Rick Mofina’s novels to feature Seattle Mirror reporter Jason Wade. Wade works the crime beat and is under perpetually heavy pressure from his editor to scoop ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Goat Lady’s Daughter

By Rosella Leslie

The title of this novel isn’t strictly accurate: there are two goat ladies, not one, and they’re no ladies. Mag and Florrie, a pair of sisters well beyond child-bearing age, have lived for many years ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mole Chronicles

By Andy Brown

Montreal author and Conundrum Press founder Andy Brown’s intelligent and experimental first novel tells the tale of a nameless narrator obsessed with his cancer (specifically, melanoma) and the benign/malignant proportions of his life. As a ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Penguin Book of Canadian Women’s Short Stories

By Lisa Moore, ed.

he Penguin Book of Canadian Women’s Short StoriesLisa Moore, ed.; $32 cloth 0-670-065552-8, 360 pp., 6 x 9, Penguin Canada, Sept. The only inexplicable thing about this superb anthology of writing by Canadian women is ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century

By Harold Rhenisch

The Wolves at Evelyn is a hybrid of creative non-fiction, autobiography, historical narrative, and philosophical treatise. As such, it focuses on the experience of immigrant families travelling to B.C., while providing a context for their ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: History

Mental Traps: A Field Guide to the Stupid Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Life

By André Kukla

There are typically two ways to incite change in people: by exploring the underlying issues influencing their actions, thereby giving them an understanding of the psychological factors at work, or by focusing on the surface ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

A Good Death

By Gil Courtemanche; Wayne Grady, trans.

How to die? By heart attack? By aneurysm? Going gently in the night has traditionally been the first choice of many, but recently when I’ve posed the question I’ve heard people choose very active deaths ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto

By Jonny Dovercourt, Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox, eds.

Thoughtful, inspired, inclusive, careful to avoid deadly academicism as well as showoffy wackiness, and above all infused with a kind of I’ll-be-in-your-band-and-you-can-be-in-mine boho largeness of spirit, this second volume of musings on Toronto (after 2005’s ... Read More »

December 18, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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