★ What Are You Doing, Sam?

Rarely does a children’s book suit its intended audience perfectly. The vocabulary may aim too high or low, or adult preoccupations may creep into what is supposed to be a child’s sphere of thought. But ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ “I Did It Because…”: How a Poem Happens

By Loris Lesynski; Michael Martchenko, illus.

It’s one of those certainties like death or taxes: after an author reading, someone in the audience will invariably ask, “Where do you get your ideas?” Without saying where, exactly, children’s poet Loris Lesynski ponders ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Walking After Midnight: A Journey Through Murder, Justice and Forgiveness

By Katy Hutchison

It was an unthinkable tragedy that made national headlines. Partway through the evening of December 31, 1997, Bob McIntosh left his wife Katy, his two children, and their friends to check on a teen house ... Read More »

September 11, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Fighter

By Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson’s previous book, Rust and Bone, was an aversive, acerbic, often bitterly funny collection of stories that explored the extent to which desperate men will go to find some semblance of meaning in their ... Read More »

September 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Abode of Love: Growing Up in a Messianic Cult

By Kate Barlow

Kate Barlow’s memoir is as full of secrets as Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, yet as cozy as an Enid Blyton story. Told largely from the point of view of Barlow as a bright ... Read More »

August 21, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Gargoyles

By Bill Gaston

The image of the gargoyle that presides over the 12 stories in this compelling and highly original collection by Giller-nominated author Bill Gaston is an apt one. The stony fixity of the gargoyle is akin ... Read More »

August 14, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Garneau Block

By Todd Babiak

Edmonton – we know what it isn’t, so what is it? It’s not Sin City, Fun City, Naked City, or the Motor City; it isn’t a city of gold, angels, or light. There’s the oil ... Read More »

August 8, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Cold

By Louise Penny

Louise Penny received a great deal of praise from some very impressive sources for her first novel, Still Life. After reading Dead Cold, her second effort, I can safely say that much more praise is ... Read More »

July 31, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Satanic Purses: Money, Myth, and Misinformation in the War on Terror

By R.T. Naylor

Five years into the War on Terror, it’s remarkable how few credible voices have questioned the operating assumptions of an enterprise that Pentagon generals ominously warn will carry on for the rest of our lives. ... Read More »

July 24, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hello … Hello: A Romantic Satire

By Karen Hines

With influences as diverse and seemingly mismatched as Greek tragedy and mid-century Hollywood musicals, Karen Hines’s latest satire is a bizarrely compelling work that may not be for all readers. A followup to Hines’s first ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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