Reviews

★ Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus

Queen’s University professor Donald Harman Akenson is known for his scholarship on Irish history and his probing questions about Christianity. In 1998, he produced the critically acclaimed Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies: A Memoir of Hungary

By Anna Porter

Contemporary memoirs – the unforgettable ones – are narrative poker games that break out when a limber imagination takes on family history. Angela’s Ashes and Running in the Family – to name but a slim ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Can We Be Good Without God? Behaviour, Belonging and the Need to Believe

By Robert Buckman

Robert Buckman is an MD and card-carrying humanist who wants us to know that we don’t have to believe in order to behave. Belief in an external god who has set out prescribed rules of ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Blood Relations: Animals, Humans, and Politics

By Charlotte Montgomery

Though increasing the number of vegetarians was not likely her goal, Charlotte Montgomery’s powerful report from the front lines of the Canadian animal rights movement could provoke many a reader to swear off a whole ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec

By Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe writes lively, information-packed travel articles, several of which have been folded into Sacré Blues, his lively, information-packed book on Quebec. (The B.C.-raised author settled there on returning to Canada from France four years ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Girl Who Lived with the Bears

By Barbara Diamond Goldin, Andrew Plewes, illus.

This transformation tale, one of the most popular stories among the Haida, Tlingit, and other Pacific Northwest coastal tribes, is retold here with careful attention to detail. Author Barbara Diamond Goldin first heard this legend ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: History

19th Century Girls and Women (Historic Communities Series)

By Bobbie Kalman

The latest title in Crabtree’s Historic Communities series will be welcomed by teachers looking for support materials for presenting 19th-century history. Unfortunately, its plodding, uninvolving text keeps this book from becoming anything more than a ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Free Reign

By Rosemary Aubert

The premise of Free Reign is promising. Ellis Portal, a former judge, is one of Toronto’s homeless, living in the bush lining the city’s Don River Valley. One day, he finds a man’s amputated hand, ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Couchwarmer: A Laundromat Adventure

By Greg Kramer

Couchwarmer, the second novel by Toronto writer Greg Kramer, builds on many of the obsessions of its predecessor, The Pursemonger of Fugu: A Bathroom Mystery. Like Fugu, this novel gleefully scratches at the underbelly of ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Buying on Time

By Antanas Sileika

Buying On Time is a moving and entertaining collection of short stories about a Lithuanian-Canadian family set in the Toronto suburb of Weston. Ordered chronologically from 1953 to 1981, the collection has the unified feel ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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