Reviews

High: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler

Prologues are often melodramatic, affected, and to be skipped. Not this one. The prologue to Brian O’Dea’s memoir of life as a pot smuggler is heartbreaking, introducing the tale of how a nice kid from ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit

By Taras Grescoe

“As soon as I encountered the words absinthe, hashish and opium as a teenager, I was dreaming up ways to get my hands on them,” confesses Taras Grescoe in the preface to The Devil’s Picnic. ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

The Bloody Red Hand: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

By Derek Lundy

It’s not surprising that Derek Lundy chose to start his new book with a scene set at sea – the Salt Spring Island writer has done well with his previous, nautically themed books. The opening ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Red Power Murders

By Thomas King

With The Red Power Murders, Thomas King (aka Hartley Goodweather) returns with a new DreadfulWater mystery. Having abandoned the façade of pseudonymity that accompanied DreadfulWater Shows Up, the first novel featuring Cherokee freelance investigator Thumps ... Read More »

April 24, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Dolphins at Sainte-Marie

By Sandra Sabatini

In the title story of this collection a child valiantly sells chocolate bars for her Grade 6 trip, only to learn it’s to the wrong theme park – she thought the teacher said Marineland, not ... Read More »

April 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The End of Food: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Food Supply – And What You Can Do About It

By Thomas F. Pawlick

An unsavoury encounter with a tomato that shared the culinary attributes of a hockey puck led journalist and sometime farmer Thomas Pawlick on a journey to discover what was happening to the quality, taste, and ... Read More »

April 10, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Tent

By Margaret Atwood

Some of the earliest examples of women’s writing can be found in Renaissance “miscellanies,” or notebooks in which women copied, composed, and emended poems and brief bits of fiction for their own pleasure and edification. ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

By Vincent Lam

The critic’s job comes with its hazards – the threats, the angry letters, and the occasional egg lobbed at the Q&Q windows. But imagine the worst-ever scenario for a book reviewer, in which a sudden ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Christmas Days

By Derek McCormack; Seth, illus.

What are the things that make Christmas Christmas in Canada?” Derek McCormack answers this question in his first non-fiction title, Christmas Days. Set out like the Advent calendars McCormack remembers from his childhood, the book’s ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Sleep of Four Cities

By Jen Currin

The Sleep of Four Cities is the first poetry collection from Jen Currin, an expat American and now Vancouver resident. The poems show the signs of much hard work. They are full of startling images, ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

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