My Wedding Dress: True-Life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears and Tulle

By Susan Whelehan, Anne Laurel Carter, eds.

Full disclosure: this reviewer is not married, nor is she engaged. Her Mr. Wonderful took one look at her weekend reading – i.e., these two books – and wisely retreated to his study. She has ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Tales of a Curling Hack

By Doug Maxwell

Humility is a big part of curling’s successful formula. At a time when many professional athletes aggravate fans with their arrogant attitudes, curlers come across as the kind of folks you might run into at ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Letter Opener

By Kyo Maclear

Do you remember the Dead Letter Office? Apparently it changed its name in 1954 to the Undeliverable Mail Office – the UMO – which was thought to be a little less depressing, though the meaning ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Washington Diaries: 1981-1989

By Allan Gotlieb

Allan Gotlieb’s Washington Diaries isn’t a page-turner, but it is an exhaustively detailed, day-by-day account of the tenure of one of the most influential and memorable Canadian ambassadors to the United States. The accounts of ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Canadian Hockey Atlas

By Stephen Cole

Don’t take The Canadian Hockey Atlas on your team’s next road trip – not if you want to find the rink, anyway. Each of the 11 chapters here – one per province, plus one for ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans

By Dr. David Waltner-Toews

There is not enough vaccine to inoculate us all against bird flu, and even if there eventually were, the disease would likely have already mutated, rendering the vaccine mostly powerless. The latest book by Kitchener, ... Read More »

March 19, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Rollback

By Robert J. Sawyer

In Rollback, bestselling Toronto science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer explores both the nature of time and the questions surrounding the scientific ability to fundamentally alter the human lifespan. In the process, he also delves deeply ... Read More »

March 12, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe

By John Bell

Given that the superhero genre has dominated the comic book medium for more than half a century, it’s not all that surprising that a history of Canadian comics would bear a subtitle stating that our ... Read More »

March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Ethical Imagination

By Margaret Somerville

In The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville, who holds positions in the faculties of Law and Medicine at McGill University, speaks in a public voice as opposed to an academic one. This is the case not ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

i-ROBOT

By Jason Christie

Poetry about robots has “disaster” written all over it. But surprisingly, the poetry in i-ROBOT is peppered with enough playfulness that the reader doesn’t feel compelled to hunt for deep meaning in the sci-fi verse.Instead, ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

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