Reviews

The Country Store: Traditional Food, Country Crafts, Natural Decorations

Whether pretty posies or practical aromatics, book publishers are offering a stack of craft books on creating items for home, body, or gift giving from the garden’s bounty. From the glossy front cover of Living With ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Sandra Post and Me: A Veteran Pro Takes a New Golfer from First Swing to Tournament

By Sandra Post & Loral Dean

Loral Dean disdained golf. She couldn’t understand the arcane jargon, let alone figure out why golfers became so obsessed with the game. And even though – or, perhaps, because – both her husband and ex-husband ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Innocent Graves

By Peter Robinson

Blonde and beautiful Deborah Harrison, a 16-year-old student, has been strangled, her almost nude body spread-eagled near an ancient mausoleum. The images appear in a chilling kaleidoscope, drawn with a talent Peter Robinson has honed ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grading the Teacher: A Parent’s Guide

By Nellie Jacobs

The classroom teacher is by far the most important factor in a child’s schooling. Despite all efforts to marginalize them as “facilitators,” teachers retain the power to save lives, to permanently improve young minds, or ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Awakening Brilliance: How to Inspire Children to Become Successful Learners

By Pamela Sims

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

I Was Hitler’s Cat

By N.J. Dodic

Any book that plays Hitler for laughs has its work cut out for it. First, there are the jokes themselves, which must succeed on every page, given the very small market for Nazi comedy. Second, ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Memory Lane: A Willows and Parker Mystery

By Laurence Gough

Series mystery writers always have to compete with themselves while trying to keep the faith with readers who just want variations on the same old theme. Laurence Gough typically responds on two tracks, first by ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gaffer: A Novel of Newfoundland

By Kevin Major

Shorn of his duties to the teen set, Kevin Major, a Newfoundland writer best known for his YA fiction, neglects the elements that typically make a novel work: clarity, story, character. Instead, he indulges style ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Southern Gulf Islands of B.C.

By David and Andrea Spalding & Lawrence Pitt and Georgina Montgomery

It’s difficult to talk about beauty without simplifying or over-romanticizing. There can be beauty in ugliness, a certain sad, ironic beauty of human endeavour represented, say, by a wheelless splay-forked bicycle propped up in a ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference