Reviews

★ Greedy Little Eyes

Billie Livingston’s first collection of short fiction exhibits her trademark snappy wit while delving into the sadder aspects of life: mental illness, family breakdown, and abuse. The 10 stories in this collection are heartbreaking in ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

By Ross King

From a young age, Canadians learn about our country’s most famous painting movement in art classes, yet the Group of Seven’s dramatic landscapes and blazing depictions of Canada’s wilderness still don’t seem to get the ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Combat Camera

By A.J. Somerset

Mentally and physically wounded after years of covering wars, photographer Lucas Zane, the main character in A.J. Somerset’s debut novel (winner of the 2010 Metcalf-Rooke Award for an unpublished manuscript), finds himself down and out ... Read More »

August 23, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jane Austen

By Carol Shields

Jane Austen novels bring comfort. As full of issues as they are, there is a comfort in finding oneself immersed in the Romantic era, when securing a “situation” – if you were a woman, that ... Read More »

August 23, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Up North Again: More of Ontario’s Wilderness from Ladybugs to the Pleiades

By Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner

Up North Again, by journalists and outdoor enthusiasts Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner, gives readers a glimpse of the natural wonders of southern Shield country (the “up north” of most Ontario city dwellers). It is ... Read More »

August 23, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America

By Peter Firstbrook

Would North America be the same without the lives of two boys, both born in the same walled city in 1451? Cristoforo Colombo and Giovanni Caboto left Genoa separately as young men, went on to ... Read More »

August 20, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Echoes of Empire: Victoria and Its Remarkable Buildings

By Robin Ward

Vancouver Sun readers know Robin Ward from his tony weekly column that tracks local architecture. With titles such as “B.C.’s oldest dairy is tastefully preserved,” these short essays, accompanied by Ward’s etchy line drawings, are ... Read More »

August 20, 2010 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard

By Valerie Fortney

On May 17, 2006, at approximately 7 p.m. Afghanistan time, Forward Observation Officer Captain Nichola Goddard earned a tragic place in Canadian history: she became the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat. Although ... Read More »

August 16, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle

By J.A. Wainwright

The visual artist Robert Markle (1936–90) was a Mohawk from southern Ontario who believed “people should be aware [that] you can be a Native Canadian and still understand [that] Christopher Wren is wonderful and Rembrandt ... Read More »

August 3, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Fauna

By Alissa York

Alissa York’s Fauna is an extraordinary novel. A departure from the author’s previous, more historically minded works (including 2007’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated Effigy), Fauna takes place in the hidden, wild corners of present-day Toronto, where ... Read More »

August 3, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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