Reviews

Louder than the Sea

In his other incarnation, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Wayne Bartlett’s most popular song chronicles the closure of the Newfoundland fishery. In Louder than the Sea, his first novel, he tackles similarly political subjects: the necessity of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Sputnik Diner

By Rick Maddocks

Rick Maddocks’ impressive talent isn’t necessarily in telling stories – the five interconnected tales of Sputnik Diner are carefully crafted, but are often preoccupied with plodding exposition. Like Alice Munro, whose works share the common ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Dagmar’s Daughter

By Kim Echlin

In many ways, Kim Echlin’s second novel continues the themes of her first: Elephant Winter set the progress of a mother’s death against the incongruous backdrop of elephants in an Ontario winter. In that book ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Kingdom of Monkeys

By Adam Lewis Schroeder

In the film Apocalypse Now – which functions as a backdrop to one of the stories in this collection – the jungle starts to pick off the increasingly delirious Yanks as they journey upriver, turning ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Harm’s Way

By Maureen Hynes

The title poem of Maureen Hynes’s second collection depicts the book as a sort of travel narrative for Amazons: “Some of us wear a piece of the road as an amulet/over our breastbones.” The book’s ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Dove Legend

By Richard Outram

Beginning Dove Legend, the newest collection by award-winning Toronto poet Richard Outram, is a little like entering a foreign language. Outram’s conventional poetic forms and strict rhymes, combined with his use of archaic language, will ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Exact Fare Only: Good, Bad & Ugly Rides on Public Transit

By Grant Buday,ed.

It’s difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a tribute to the stale air of a long, cramped ride on a Greyhound or the congestion of a subway during rush hour. Yet despite – or perhaps ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

What Happens When I Die?

By Brian Stiller

Potential bookbuyers testing the heft of Stiller’s slender volume may respond to its titular question with a snarky, “Not much, apparently.” Yet Stiller, the president of Tyndale College and Seminary, packs a lot into What ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Unseen Power: How Mutual Funds Threaten the Political and Economic Wealth of Nations

By Adam Harmes

In the world of heartless globalization and mass layoffs, runaway corporate profits and greedy CEOs, Adam Harmes has seen the enemy and, to a large extent, the enemy is us: the individual investor facing down ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Living Workplace: Soul, Spirit and Success in the 21st Century

By Ann Coombs with Marion E. Raycheba

A few years ago I taught English at a prestigious private school, an experience that left me feeling like an indentured servant. Wanting a more balanced life, with time for family and friends, I left ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

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