February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
It was just over 20 years ago that John Lennon was killed, one in a long line of assassinations that shaped both the 20th century and the contemporary psyche (while the old maxim of remembering ... Read More »
With the election of George W. Bush provoking renewed international concern about plans to launch a Star Wars military program, Rosalie Bertell has produced a timely call to action on the dangers the military poses ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Romantic obsession is one of those wickedly tricky subjects that easily lead to a badly written swamp of pitiful sentiment – but not in the discerning hands of veteran biographer Rosemary Sullivan. Turning her attention ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Bessie Smith, the narrator of Open Arms, the first novel by Saskatchewan writer and playwright Marina Endicott, is a young woman with some troubling role models. Her father, an award-winning poet, left her and her ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Writers like Lola Lemire Tostevin resist the ordinary and predictable in sentences and plots. While she hasn’t sold a zillion books, Tostevin has enjoyed a fine reputation as a thinking, feeling, inventive crafter of fiction ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
In his other incarnation, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Wayne Bartlett’s most popular song chronicles the closure of the Newfoundland fishery. In Louder than the Sea, his first novel, he tackles similarly political subjects: the necessity of the ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Rick Maddocks’ impressive talent isn’t necessarily in telling stories – the five interconnected tales of Sputnik Diner are carefully crafted, but are often preoccupied with plodding exposition. Like Alice Munro, whose works share the common ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
In many ways, Kim Echlin’s second novel continues the themes of her first: Elephant Winter set the progress of a mother’s death against the incongruous backdrop of elephants in an Ontario winter. In that book ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
In the film Apocalypse Now – which functions as a backdrop to one of the stories in this collection – the jungle starts to pick off the increasingly delirious Yanks as they journey upriver, turning ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Life Without Mooch is one of four new Formac books, each about characters familiar to readers of the series called First Novels: Maddie (Maddie Wants New Clothes), Marilou (Marilou’s Long Nose), Fred (Fred’s Midnight Prowler), ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction