Literary Trips Volume 2: Following in the Footsteps of Fame

Literary Trips is a book for dreaming and travelling. As its subtitle suggests, the book guides readers to the haunts of 22 famous writers on four continents and several islands. Each entry includes an essay ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Canadian Family On-Line

By John Wallace Whistance-Smith

With the advent of the World Wide Web the Internet has irrevocably passed from the purview of technology fetishists into the den of John Q. Public. It’s no surprise then that the Net is now ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Kingfisher Days: A Memoir

By Susan Coyne

When Susan Coyne, an accomplished actor and founding member of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre, was five years old, the world of fairies and make-believe was very much a reality. Kingfisher Days is her recollection of a ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

As Near to Heaven by Sea: A History of Newfoundland and Labrador

By Kevin Major

Many of Kevin Major’s novels for adults and children draw on Newfoundland history, so it’s no surprise that he uses Newfoundland and Labrador’s dramatic past to its fullest in As Near to Heaven by Sea, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

A Map to the Door of No Return

By Dionne Brand

A Map to the Door of No Return is a beautiful book. It’s also a sad book, and a maddening book. Governor General’s Award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist Dionne Brand has created a work that ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Whose Brave New World?: The Information Highway and the New Economy

By Heather Menzies

People are being replaced by computers in many Canadian industries, including banking, oil refining, pulp and paper, and telecommunications. And where they remain, they are becoming hand servants, or “human post-it notes” as Heather Menzies ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs

By George Fetherling, ed.

George Fetherling argues in his surprisingly cantankerous preface to The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs that Canadians are psychologically predisposed to dealing imaginatively with their pasts. Compared with the traditional American emphasis of “lighting out ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

All Families Are Psychotic

By Douglas Coupland

With All Families Are Psychotic author Douglas Coupland has completed a seven-novel mission: he’s finally moved his characters out of the rumpus room.Rumpus rooms have always figured prominently in Coupland’s universe of protracted, distracted youngishness. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fasle Face

By Welwyn Wilton Katz

Librarians and booksellers are often asked these days for books that are “just like the Goosebumps” series. Parents tend to want something more challenging and literary for their kids, but kids want something equally frightening ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book news