Reviews

The Days of Miracles and Wonders: A Novel of East and West

A jet-setting doctor named Angel performs surgery in the war zones of Beirut before his mysterious kidnapping. A reincarnated English king named Richard the Lionheart travels modern-day Middle Eastern battlefields, dreaming blood-spattered dreams of his ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Canadian Crime Fiction

By David Skene-Melvin

Canadian Crime Fiction is a massive bibliography of Canadian crime writing compiled by David Skene-Melvin, assisted by Norbery Spehner, whose earlier work (written with Yvon Allard), Ecrits sur le roman policier, Bibliographie (Collection Paralitté-ratures, Le ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape

By Terry Glavin

The “ragged place” in Terry Glavin’s splendid book is British Columbia. Not glossy downtown Vancouver or the clipped precincts of Victoria, but the sloughs and inlets and broken volcanic valleys located at the edges of ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries

By Di Brandt

By the standards of everyday discourse, feminist, Mennonite poet Di Brandt appears to be a bundle of paradoxes – if not an absolute oxymoron. But the Manitoba writer’s collection of essays, Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium

By Michael Adams

What is it with these guys? Earlier this year we had demographer David Foot telling us in Boom, Bust and Echo that demographic research explains “two-thirds of everything.” Then we had Angus Reid warning in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About Winning, Losing, and Being a Good Sport (Sometimes)

By Gordon Korman and Bernice Korman

Jeremy Bloom, a character first introduced in The D- Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About School Homework and Life (Sort Of), has returned. In this second Jeremy Bloom book , we once ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Houses of China

By Bonnie Shemie

No, this isn’t a book about delicate dwellings shaped in fine porcelain. Bonnie Shemie’s successful and informative “Houses” series has taken a big jump, away from Native American houses, all the way to China. Houses ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Ultimate Hockey Trivia

By Don Weekes and Kerry Banks

TV producer and writer Don Weekes and Kerry Banks, recipient of the 1995 National Magazine Award for Sportswriting, have teamed up to produce Ultimate Hockey Trivia, a compendium for the enthusiast and ephemera aficionado alike. ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Slow Emergencies

By Nancy Huston

The cover of Nancy Huston’s new release, Slow Emergencies, announces brazenly that she is the “Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Plainsong. Well. Sort of. This kind of truth-stretch will irk those who, when ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels