Reviews

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

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

The Goldberg Variations

By Nancy Huston

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweat Equity: Entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada

By Allan Lynch

As veteran business writer Allan Lynch points out in his preface to Sweat Equity, Atlantic Canada is not generally perceived – either within the region or without – as a locus for economic success. Yet ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

If Wishes Were Horses

By W.P. Kinsella

Continuing his series of bestselling baseball sagas, White Rock, B.C. writer W.P. Kinsella brings nomadic pitcher Joe McCoy to the role of protagonist. Romping from bed to bed, he flops through a career of eight ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ken Thomson: Canada’s Enigmatic Billionaire

By Vic Parsons

Author Vic Parsons, a veteran journalist who spent six years with Thomson Newspapers, doesn’t hide his disdain for Canada’s richest capitalist, a reclusive press baron whose life bears little resemblance to that of the average ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Gifts to Last: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

By selected by Walter Learning

The broadcast industry has perfected the rerun, so we shouldn’t be surprised book publishers are following suit. They’ve put their own spin on the strategy, but the basic idea is the same: if something sells ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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