Reviews

★ The Tomato Handbook: Tips and Tricks for Growing the Best Tomatoes

The tomato is, by all accounts, Canadian gardeners’ favourite vegetable. In this readable and useful new addition to the Firefly Gardener’s Guide series, veteran garden writer Jennifer Bennett ably proves her point that it’s also ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Homebuying Made Easy: The Canadian Guide for First-time Home Buyers, 2nd Ed.

By Douglas Gray

The bank ads are all wrong with their images of beautiful couples happily entering their new homes seeming to have made their purchase with little strife. Buying a house is never an easy task. It’s ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Houseplant Encyclopedia

By Ingrid Jantra and Ursula Kruger, Maya Anyas and Joan Campbell, trans.

Until the past few years, foreign entries into North America’s buoyant garden book market were almost exclusively British. Germany, which has a long and storied history of horticulture and plant breeding, was not well represented ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Angel Falls

By Tim Wynveen

Tim Wynveen gives fair warning that his debut novel, Angel Falls, is not going to be a shiny, happy affair. In the prologue, the narrator Benoni informs us that his name, translated from Hebrew, means ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dying for Veronica

By Matthew Remski

Early in Dying for Veronica, Matthew Remski’s more-gothic-than-Catholic, guilt-ridden first novel, the author writes: “The room filled with the light you see when the purple curtains of your confessional cleave open like the dress of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gaff Topsails

By Patrick Kavanagh

It’s a formidable task for any novelist to capture the essence of a particular culture in a single work of fiction, and for a first novelist, the undertaking usually results in a work of unfortunate ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Disorder of Love

By Karen Connelly

With The Disorder of Love, her third collection of poetry, Calgary native Karen Connelly maps the often-rocky terrain of romantic and familial relationships. Divided into three sections, the book contains poems set in Greece and ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Diamonds Forever: Reflections from the Field, the Dugout and the Bleachers

By W.P. Kinsella, ed.

W. P. Kinsella’s baseball novels belong in the Hall of Fame. But this collection of well-known baseball quotes and stories, of which Kinsella was the editor, generates about as much excitement as a late-season game ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Villeneuve: My First Season in Formula 1

By Jacques Villeneuve with Gerald Donaldson

The Canadian passion for Formula 1 racing, largely dormant since Gilles Villeneuve’s fatal crash in 1982, was suddenly reawakened last year when a small, quiet, almost scholarly young Québécois made his spectacular debut at the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

No Crystal Stair

By Mairuth Sarsfield

Set in Montreal during the unsettled years of the Second World War, Sarsfield’s first novel depicts a community largely invisible to white society beyond the roles it has assigned them as maids, musicians, Pullman porters. ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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