BOOK REVIEWS

★ A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin

Scholar, writer, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg of Alderville First Nation) offers her distinctive Nishnaabeg storytelling in this year’s instalment of the Kreisel Lecture Series, entitled A Short History of the Blockade. ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

A Brief View from the Coastal Suite

By Karen Hofmann

Karen Hofmann’s novels deserve a place on the shelves of discerning readers across the country. Her 2014 debut, After Alice, was a gorgeous evocation of the Okanagan Valley, which she followed with 2017’s What Is ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Begin by Telling

By Meg Remy

“I wish I could tell my teenage self ... not to worry what other people think,” say a multitude of voices in a poem-like interlude on Heavy Light, the seventh album from Meg Remy, a.k.a. ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Return of the Trickster

By Eden Robinson

Spiritual beings, extraordinary powers, and jokes about Frozen are unleashed with abandon in the third and final instalment of Eden Robinson’s groundbreaking Trickster saga. After the first books dawdled through the set-up, this book gleefully ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Stand Like a Cedar

By Nicola L. Campbell and Carrielynn Victor (ill.)

Nicola Campbell is an award-winning author of such titles as Shi-shi-etko (2006 Anskohk Aboriginal Children’s Book of the Year winner) and Shin-chi’s Canoe (winner of the 2009 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award). Paired with illustrations ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression, and Resilience

By Mark Henick

At 12 years old, Mark Henick knew he had mental-health issues: anxiety, depression, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts. At 15, he tried to kill himself. For those familiar with Henick’s wildly popular 2013 TEDx Talk, the ... Read More »

February 25, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Annie and the Wolves

By Andromeda Romano Lax

The new novel from Vancouver Island writer Andromeda Romano-Lax, begins with something of a familiar premise: a struggling academic comes into possession of previously unknown archival materials relating to her subject of study, with life-changing ... Read More »

February 25, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Beekeepers: How Humans Changed the World of Bumble Bees

By Dana L. Church

There are many conflicting theories out there on how to nurture future generations of conservationists. The belief in exposing kids to animals in captivity at zoos and marine parks is now widely disputed by animal-welfare ... Read More »

February 25, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold  Friendships That Won WWII

By Neville Thompson

The diaries of Canada’s 10th prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, have been used to analyze Canada at a critical time in its history, as well as his own politics and personal life. Neville Thompson, ... Read More »

February 22, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Sully, Messed Up

By Stephanie Simpson McLellan

The debut middle-grade novel from award-winning picture-book writer Stephanie Simpson McLellan, Sully, Messed Up, begins with a Kafka-esque flourish. Thirteen-year-old Sullivan Brewster – Sully to his friends – wakes on the first morning of Grade ... Read More »

February 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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