BOOK REVIEWS

★ Bread & Water

Food is memory: the snap of a spring pea, the sizzle of bacon, or the scent of freshly baked bread can evoke feelings and meaning in meals, whether they’re eaten alone or in the company ... Read More »

October 20, 2021 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Reviews

★ My Mad Hair Day

By Nathalie Dion

A child wrestles with big emotions caused by hair of tall-tale proportions in the first solo picture book by Montreal artist and Governor General’s Literary Award nominee Nathalie Dion. Malie has a hard time keeping ... Read More »

October 19, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Yume

By Sifton Tracey Anipare

While some may believe that the demons of our nightmares exist only in dreams, in Sifton Tracey Anipare’s debut novel, Yume, humans, demons, and yokai- (supernatural creatures and spirits) feed and imbibe in waking realities. ... Read More »

October 19, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Chaiwala!

By Priti Birla Maheshwari; Ashley Barron (ill.)

A joyful, high-energy child embraces life with gusto in Meena’s Mindful Moment, an insightful picture book by Tina Athaide, winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. When Meena arrives at ... Read More »

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Meena’s Mindful Moment

By Tina Athaide; Åsa Gilland (ill.)

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ August into Winter

By Guy Vanderhaeghe

August into Winter, the stunning new novel from Saskatchewan writer Guy Vanderhaeghe, begins in the late summer of 1939. With the world on the cusp of war – press clippings on the trouble in Europe, ... Read More »

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Strangers

By Katherena Vermette

It should come as no surprise that The Strangers, Katherena Vermette’s companion to the multi-award-winning novel The Break, garnered a spot on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist and the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize ... Read More »

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Householders

By Kate Cayley

The last word in Householders, the affecting new collection of stories from Toronto writer Kate Cayley, is “home” – appropriate for a book that so assiduously interrogates notions of identity and belonging. In it, characters ... Read More »

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Glorious Frazzled Beings

By Angélique Lalonde

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Waswanipi

By Jean-Yves Soucy; Peter McCambridge (trans.)

It was 1963 when a young Jean-Yves Soucy, the late Montreal-based writer, publisher, and journalist, arrived by floatplane for a summer job as a fire warden in the thick boreal forest of Waswanipi in central ... Read More »

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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