Reviews

The Law of Dreams

Almost everyone in Canada has ancestors who immigrated to this country from afar; that past journey is part of the universal Canadian memory. Peter Behrens’ first novel reflects his own family’s experience, forced out of ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bay of Spirits: A Love Story

By Farley Mowat

As I read this memoir and refamiliarized myself with many of Farley Mowat’s settings, passions, and adventures, it occurred to me that a couple of generations of younger Canadian readers probably don’t view him the ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

When Earth Leaps Up

By Anne Szumigalski; Mark Abley, ed.

Publishing a posthumous collection is a tricky proposition for reasons both commercial and artistic. It’s hard enough to sell copies of books by living poets – how much harder, then, when the poet has been ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

So We Sold Our House and Ran Away to the South Pacific

By Gordon Cope

A note to Gordon Cope: don’t quit your day job. Oops! As the twee title of his book suggests, this advice comes a little too late. In 1993, Cope, a Calgary-based journalist, and his wife ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Horse: How the Horse Shaped Civilizations

By J. Edward Chamberlain

Nearly 100 pages into Horse, author J. Edward Chamberlain finally gets around to making a thesis-like statement – that horses have fascinated mankind because they straddle a line between barbarism and civilization.Though it is buried ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: History

Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer

By Dr. Marla Shapiro

Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast CancerDr. Marla Shapiro; $29.95 cloth 0-00-200814-9, 300 pp., 5½ x 8½, HarperCollins Canada, Sept. Reviewed from advance reading copyThere are a few notables – sports personalities, actors, ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914–1939

By Steve Hewitt

The idea of a Machiavellian police force, desperate to maintain its survival by searching out state enemies often exaggerated or even imagined, does not square with most images of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Yet ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Lesley Stowe Fine Foods Cookbook

By Lesley Stowe

A boom in fine dining in Vancouver over the past 15 years has spawned a small library of excellent cookbooks from master chefs like Rob Feenie, John Bishop, and Karen Barnaby. This fall, two more ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

★ Vij’s: Elegant and Inspired Indian Cuisine

By Vikram Vij, Meeru Dhalwala

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Encantadas

By Robert Allen

Montreal-based poet, novelist, publisher, and teacher Robert Allen’s latest book was originally serialized over four chapbooks and 25 years. The title is borrowed from Melville, but an observation by Melville’s contemporary, Poe – “the phrase ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

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