Reviews

Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank Mckenna

Frank McKenna’s political importance cannot be denied. His first mandate as premier of New Brunswick was unanimous – his Liberals utterly defeated Richard Hatfield’s Tories in 1987 and sat unopposed in the legislature. While in ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

2015: After the Boom

By Garth Turner

FINANCIAL PLANNING BOOKS have become a fixture of the fall market heralding the tax preparation season to come. The offerings include books of self-promoting advice published by or for mutual fund vendors; better ones merge ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Your Last Day on Earth

By Carla Hartsfield

Toronto poet Carla Hartsfield is a true Renaissance woman. Her biography states that she is, by turns, a poet, painter, songwriter, and classical/pop musician. Sometimes, as she demonstrates in her third collection of poetry, Your ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Krekshuns

By Dennis E. Bolen

It takes a lot longer to get this dark novel out of your mind than it does to read it. Another in Bolen’s series about Vancouver parole officer Barry Delta, the book is a discordant ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Our Lady of the Lost and Found

By Diane Schoemperlen

For 15 years, Kingston, Ontario’s Diane Schoemperlen has used formal pranks to reveal an imagination as quick and associative as a hummingbird’s wing. Her novel, In the Language of Love, was a long – and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Loving This Man

By Althea Prince

With Loving This Man, her first novel, Althea Prince follows other West Indian-Canadian authors (Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, Austin Clarke) in exploring the trauma of emigration. The first half of the novel is set in ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Playing House

By Patricia Pearson

Positioning its protagonist somewhere between the worlds of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones and Allison Pearson’s Kate Reddy, Playing House falls effortlessly into the recent boom in narratives that explore the lives of thirtysomething females pursuing ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wondrous Strange: Glenn Gould, a Biography

By Kevin Bazzana

There are a number of enormous risks inherent in assessing the life of Glenn Gould. The heavy layers of hype and half-truth began to cover Gould around the time of his first public appearances as ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Garth Turner’s 1997 Rrsp Guide

By Garth Turner

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Web Page Design: A Different Multimedia

By Mary E.S. Morris and Randy J. Hinrichs

Just when you think the hype swirling around the World Wide Web can’t get any bigger, it does. TV commercials are full of ever-greater numbers of URLs, radio programs endlessly encourage listeners to “check out ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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