Reading by Lightning

Most first-time novelists strain for the gold ring; Joan Thomas grabs it effortlessly in this wonderful book. Undoubtedly, her years editing, reviewing, and writing about other writers’ work in The Globe and Mail and elsewhere ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Almost Archer Sisters

By Lisa Gabriele

Accidentally pregnant, married, and settled on the family farm before she reached her mid-twenties, Peachy Archer has all the spontaneity of a coffee table. Now 28, she has two loveable boys, a long-abandoned partial degree ... Read More »

December 8, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Vlad: The Last Confession

By C.C. Humphreys

Somewhere between history and fiction lies truth. In Vlad: The Last Confession, author and actor C.C. Humphreys seeks to tell us one possible truth about Vlad Dracula, the historical figure who has inspired legends and ... Read More »

November 17, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fear of Fighting

By Stacey May Fowles; Marlena Zuber, illus.

Fear of Fighting, Stacey May Fowles’ second novel, is as gut-wrenching as it is delightful. Fowles navigates the devastating terrain of a broken heart with grace, humour, and wit. The novel’s protagonist, a diffident Torontonian ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Distantly Related to Freud

By Ann Charney

Ann Charney’s third novel begins in Montreal in 1952. Eight-year-old Ellen gazes through her bedroom window, awaiting the arrival of the refugees who will inhabit the empty rooms of her mother’s grandiose Mount Royal home. ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Atmospheric Disturbances

By Rivka Galchen

Toronto-born, New York-raised author Rivka Galchen’s first novel is a clever, stylish debut that wears its postmodern conventions on its sleeve. The narrator is Dr. Leo Liebenstein, a psychiatrist suffering from his own paranoid delusion. ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Hummingbird Dance

By Garry Ryan

On the first anniversary of the murder of First Nations teen Alex Starchild, a cowboy’s horse returns home to its ranch without its rider. It doesn’t take detectives Lane and Harper long to connect the ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Claudia

By Britt Holmstrom

For a novel that begins with a grisly stabbing and features three other murders, Britt Holmström’s Claudia is surprisingly upbeat. Indeed, the cactus flower on the cover is a fitting symbol of the book’s central ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Red Dog, Red Dog

By Patrick Lane

Welcome to the 2008 version of the Important Canadian Novel. Like the 2007 version – Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero – Red Dog, Red Dog announces itself with a flurry of portentous poetic language, often dealing with ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Show That Smells

By Derek McCormack

Derek McCormack has some curiously compulsive creative habits. The Toronto author’s previous novel, The Haunted Hillbilly, was a cowboy story with vampires, one that subversively re-imagined the demise of crooner Hank Williams at the hands ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Reading by Lightning

★ The Almost Archer Sisters

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Fear of Fighting

Distantly Related to Freud

Atmospheric Disturbances

A Hummingbird Dance

Claudia

Red Dog, Red Dog

The Show That Smells

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