Reviews

Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist, Visionary

The latest installment of the Women’s Press Women Who Rock series focuses on the pioneering anti-nuclear crusader Rosalie Bertell, one of the 20th century’s leading researchers of and advocates against the perils of the nuclear ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Cool: The Story of Ice Cream

By Marilyn Powell

Most people just eat ice cream. They buy it in a cone one muggy day, consuming the majority before its chocolatey contents melt messily onto their beach towels. Within moments, it’s as if the crème ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Holding Juno: Canada’s Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944

By Mark Zuehlke

With the release of his historical triptych on Canada’s Second World War battles in Italy, and last year’s Juno Beach about Canada’s D-Day battle, Mark Zuehlke has emerged as Canada’s pre-eminent writer of popular military ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: History

Deadly Slipper

By Michelle Wan

Nineteen years ago, amateur Canadian orchid addict Bedie Dunn disappeared while camping in the Dordogne region of France. When her twin, Mara, suddenly stumbles across Bedie’s camera in a local antique shop, the last roll ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Far Away Home

By Marci Denesiuk

In a world that can overwhelm us with the carefree fantasies of self-help books and distorted, media-saturated hyper-happiness, the stories of Marci Denesiuk leave us with the idea that loneliness is the normal human condition. ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Blood Price

By Jon Evans

If you have certain preconceptions about the lives of computer programmers, I heartily recommend you set them aside and read Blood Price, the new novel by Jon Evans. In Dark Places, Evans’ first novel, Paul ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Adieu, Betty Crocker

By François Gravel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Arlette is the perfect housewife and mother, the one whose son had the first Beatles jacket in the neighbourhood because she sewed it for him, the one whose Christmas Eve celebrations looked like the pictures ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Short History of Indians in Canada

By Thomas King

In his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures – published as the impressive The Truth About Stories – writer and academic Thomas King outlined a poetics of native narrative. It was an expansive perspective, incorporating both the ... Read More »

September 6, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Beautiful Wife

By Leon Rooke

In his prolific career as a writer, Leon Rooke has frequently seemed to be having far too good a time. The same suspicion strikes the reader of The Beautiful Wife. The novel begins as Vira ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

By Guy Delisle

Frank Sinatra sang about waking up in the city that never sleeps. For a two-month period in 2001, Quebec animator and cartoonist Guy Delisle woke up in one that apparently never dreams. Delisle’s travelogue, Pyongyang; ... Read More »

August 22, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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