Reviews

Iterations

A caveat to start: this new collection of short stories from Toronto writer Robert J. Sawyer isn’t new. Rather, it’s a reprint of a 2002 Quarry Press edition, published here under Sawyer’s own imprint with ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bannock, Beans and Black Tea

By J.H. Gallant, Seth, illus.

Maybe it’s the alliteration in the title that makes the trio of foods sound strangely appetizing upon first glance, or maybe it’s that I didn’t have to eat them morning after morning. But 86-year-old John ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Galveston

By Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington’s lovely and amazing ninth novel is about a motley group of hurricane chasers who encounter the Force Five disturbance of their dreams. In that sense, this novel is the tale of an oddball ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating

By Steve Milton

Even before Harding hit Kerrigan, thousands of Canadians were glued to sets and frozen to bleachers, watching Stojko, Chouinard, and Philippe Candeloro, above, spinning around the ice all over the world. And given the relatively ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights

By Anne Mullens

In her preface to Timely Death, B.C. journalist Anne Mullens, who covered the Sue Rodriguez story for The Vancouver Sun and later The Toronto Star, writes of how her attitude towards death changed during the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Life’s Losses: Living Through Grief, Bereavement and Sudden Change

By Betty Jane Wylie

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Scams, Scandals & Skulduggery

By Andreas Schroeder

The slow demise of the CBC, as government budget-cutters press ever onward, poses a worrisome problem for Canadian publishers: without the resources of the national network, where will they find their books? CBC Radio in ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hell No, We Won’t Go: Vietnam Draft Resisters in Canada

By Alan Haig-Brown, introduction by Pierre Berton

When its involvement in Vietnam escalated in 1964, the United States called upon increasing numbers of its young men to enlist in the armed forces. Those who refused had four options: they could become conscientious ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ What God Allows: The Crisis of Faith and Conscience in One Catholic Church

By Ivor Shapiro

When Pope John Paul II released his encyclical Vertitatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) in the fall of 1993, it gave members of the Roman Catholic Church much to ponder. It states that certain acts, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

All I Thought About Was Baseball: Writings on a Canadian Pastime

By William Humber and John St. James, eds.

In All I Thought About Was Baseball, editors William Humber and John St. James make reference to the intimate relationship this country has with “the game.” Their insight that this connection stems from the “longing ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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