Reviews

Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer

Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast CancerDr. Marla Shapiro; $29.95 cloth 0-00-200814-9, 300 pp., 5½ x 8½, HarperCollins Canada, Sept. Reviewed from advance reading copyThere are a few notables – sports personalities, actors, ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914–1939

By Steve Hewitt

The idea of a Machiavellian police force, desperate to maintain its survival by searching out state enemies often exaggerated or even imagined, does not square with most images of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Yet ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Lesley Stowe Fine Foods Cookbook

By Lesley Stowe

A boom in fine dining in Vancouver over the past 15 years has spawned a small library of excellent cookbooks from master chefs like Rob Feenie, John Bishop, and Karen Barnaby. This fall, two more ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

★ Vij’s: Elegant and Inspired Indian Cuisine

By Vikram Vij, Meeru Dhalwala

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Encantadas

By Robert Allen

Montreal-based poet, novelist, publisher, and teacher Robert Allen’s latest book was originally serialized over four chapbooks and 25 years. The title is borrowed from Melville, but an observation by Melville’s contemporary, Poe – “the phrase ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Home Schooling

By Carol Windley

Until her nomination for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize, Carol Windley was perennially under-known, though her stories have appeared in the Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories, and her first collection, Visible Light, was ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Inside Dope: How Drugs Are the Biggest Threat to Sports, Why You Should Care, and What Can Be Done About Them

By Dick Pound

Dick Pound has been likened to “the sheriff of the wild west,” and indeed the situation he describes in Inside Dope resembles an out-of-control frontier scene.Pound, a Montreal lawyer, is chairman of the World Anti-Doping ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shoot Me

By Lesley Crewe

Some books have great openings. Shoot Me, the second novel by Cape Breton-based freelance magazine writer Lesley Crewe, opens with: “Hildy took a sip of her tea. It was cold. How bloody irritating.” Not an ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Art of Salvage

By Leona Theis

In 2000, Leona Theis’s first book, Sightlines, won two Saskatchewan Book Awards but failed to garner much attention outside her home province. Her newest offering, The Art of Salvage, may very well follow a similar ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The View from Castle Rock

By Alice Munro

I hope it can be said without sounding glib or condescending that one of the favourite literary genres for Canadians of a certain age and social background to try out is the family history/memoir. These ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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