BOOK REVIEWS

★ Poutine: A Deep-Fried Road Trip of Discovery

Journalist Justin Giovannetti Lamothe crosses La Belle Province to discover the origins of Québec’s most beloved export, poutine, in this new book of culinary history. The origins of this humble dish are muddied; as Clement ... Read More »

October 23, 2024 | Filed under: Food & Drink, History, Reviews

All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet

By Erin Silver and Suharu Ogawa (ill.)

All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet by award-winning children’s author Erin Silver reminds us of the inconvenient truths of our modern, disposable society. This new addition to the Orca Think series thoroughly investigates our ... Read More »

October 23, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ This Is It

By Matthew Fox

Sexuality, class, family, death: these grand themes are given a rich and deep exploration in This Is It, a moving and provocative debut novel by Matthew Fox. A Canadian now living in Berlin, Fox (formerly ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

South Side of a Kinless River

By Marilyn Dumont

“Colonialism is an absence that widens,” writes celebrated poet Marilyn Dumont in “misāskwatо̄mina,” the first poem of her new collection, South Side of a Kinless River. The collection, divided into three sections, opens with a ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

By Chance Alone: The Young Readers’ Edition

By Max Eisen and Kathy Kacer

Born in Czechoslovakia, 15-year-old Max Eisen and his family were forcibly removed from their home and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in March 1944. Eisen was the only member of his ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ White World

By Saad T. Farooqi

Saad T. Farooqi’s debut novel White World starts right in the middle of the action – with his protagonist, Avaan, running with a gun in his hand, in a dystopian Pakistan engulfed in a civil ... Read More »

October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Noodles on a Bicycle

By Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang (ill.)

Noodles on a Bicycle invites readers to experience the wonder of watching delivery men balance precarious towers of boxed noodles and bowls while cycling through the busy streets of mid-20th-century Tokyo. Author Kyo Maclear tells ... Read More »

October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Hope Is a Woman’s Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel

By Amal Elsana Alh’jooj

Hope can be a woman’s name, and it can also be a motivating force. For Amal Elsana Alh’jooj, hope was bestowed upon her at birth when her father decided to call her Amal, which means ... Read More »

October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews

Keep

By Jenny Haysom

Eventually, whether before a move or after a loss, we all have to make difficult decisions about what stays and what goes. Jenny Haysom’s debut novel Keep begins with a literal version of this challenging ... Read More »

October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

What’s in Alanna’s Secret Sauce?

By Sarah Jane Conklin and Venus Angelica (ill.)

What’s in Alanna’s Secret Sauce? by Sarah Jane Conklin and illustrated by Venus Angelica is a picture book in verse that tells the story of nine-year-old Alanna and her Nan, who are looking to make ... Read More »

October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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