Synchro Boy

Synchro Boy by Shannon McFerran is a queer YA novel with a lot of potential, which sadly it does not fulfill. While tackling important and complex issues for contemporary queer teens – gender policing, homo/biphobia, ... Read More »

November 1, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Fake Blood

By Whitney Gardner

In the graphic novel Fake Blood, Whitney Gardner – author of the 2018 Schneider Family Book Award winner You’re Welcome, Universe – dips a gentle toe into the thrills of vampire romance and ponders how ... Read More »

October 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1%

By Lars Osberg

In The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1%, Dalhousie University professor Lars Osberg employs an effective mixture of hard data, well-placed anecdotes, and solutions to create a thorough and multifaceted examination ... Read More »

October 29, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hubots: Real-World Robots Inspired by Humans

By Alex Ries (ill.); Helaine Becker

It is in the nature of picture books to be enthusiastic about things (weird creatures, space travel, meeting new people) that fill most grown-ups with anxiety. And Hubots, by Toronto’s Helaine Becker and Australian illustrator ... Read More »

October 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ Africville

By Eva Campbell (ill.); Shauntay Grant

In Africville, a child visits the annual Africville Reunion/Festival and her imagination transports her back to a time before the historic Black community was razed by the city of Halifax in the name of “urban ... Read More »

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Death Scene Artist

By Andrew Wilmot

Even the most successful authors have certain (often early) work they’re not proud of: scenes they would deem poorly written or storylines they abandoned, considered unworthy of pursuing to completion. How can a writer sense ... Read More »

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Summer Cannibals

By Melanie Hobson

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Motherhood: The Mother of All Sexism

By Marilyse Hamelin; Arielle Aaronson (trans.)

An admirable boldness infuses Marilyse Hamelin’s Motherhood: The Mother of All Sexism, originally published in French in 2017. She dares to speak out about discrimination against women in Quebec – a province that, with its ... Read More »

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Flow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature

By Patchen Barss; Todd Stewart (ill.)

Journalist, science writer, and television producer Patchen Barss has written two books. The first, The Erotic Engine, was about how sex and pornography have driven the development of technologies from Gutenberg to the present day. ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Death and Life of Strother Purcell

By Ian Weir

Ian Weir’s third novel is an epic, gun-slinging western that nimbly stretches 174 years from a blood feud in antebellum North Carolina to Hell’s Gate and the Cariboo Gold Rush of the Fraser River Valley ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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