The Other Side

When Holly arrives home two hours late for supper, she finds her gay housemate, Marc, dead of a drug overdose. But, after the uproar subsides, Holly discovers Marc has not, in fact, passed over to ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jacob’s Ladder

By Joel Yanofsky

“Man plans and God laughs,” goes an old saying. Who hasn’t considered this existential Catch-22 at one time or another? In Jacob’s Ladder, an entertaining first novel by Montreal journalist Joel Yanofsky, each character is ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Aurora Montrealis

By Monique Proulx

When Aurora Montrealis first appeared a year ago, francophone readers embraced its multi-faceted reflection of post-referendum Quebec. A superb translation by Matt Cohen now allows anglophones to step through the looking glass to marvel, “Why, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Morning Sickness: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes and Treatments

By Nicky Wesson

Not long ago books on pregnancy and delivery could barely fill their allotted bookstore shelf. Women were having babies; they just weren’t reading about it. But all that has changed. Judging by the huge and ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Your Pregnancy Week by Week (3rd Edition)

By Glade Curtis

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Pregnant Fathers: Entering Parenthood Together

By Jack Heinowitz

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy: Or Everything Your Doctor Won’t Tell You

By Vicki Iovine

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Great Lakes Beer Guide: Eastern Region

By Jamie MacKinnon

I like to drink beer, not read about it. So, I approached Jamie MacKinnon’s The Great Lakes Beer Guide with the kind of enthusiasm your average frat boy has for prohibition. However, after reading MacKinnon’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible

By Jonathan Kirsch

In his introduction to Cracking the Cover, United Church minister Ross Smillie recalls being handed a Bible in elementary school by the Gideons. I don’t imagine the Gideons get into many schools these days, and ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help