Reviews

The Devil’s Snare: A Year in Saigon

It is Saigon, September 1968, and Janice Tait and her husband Richard, a Canadian diplomat, begin a posting that provides the backdrop for The Devil’s Snare. Tait begins her memoir as a means of recording ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England

By Lita-Rose Betcherman

Lita-Rose Betcherman’s Court Lady and Country Wife brings to life two royal sisters with very little in common. Lucy and Dorothy Percy were bound simply by a father imprisoned in London’s infamous Tower during the ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Best Game You Can Name

By Dave Bidini

Hockey nomad/writer and Rheostatics guitarist Dave Bidini’s latest effort is an entertaining collection of candid outtakes from interviews with mostly 1970s and ’80s NHL players, overlaid with way too much detail about the fun yet ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Against the Grain: An Irreverent View of Alberta

By Catherine Ford

If you buy into the stereotype of Albertans as a bunch of redneck, fundamentalist, rural yahoos whose solution to everything is to cut taxes and put the snakeskin cowboy boots to the liberal elites of ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917

By Laura M. MacDonald

Reading Curse of the Narrows, Laura Mac Donald’s meticulous depiction of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, reminded me of the awe I felt at the magnitude of last year’s tsunami. The explosion, the result of a ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: History

Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities

By Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

Ever wonder why we are all separated by six degrees from actor Kevin Bacon? Are you really more likely to die in a car crash on your way to the store to buy your lottery ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

On Songwriting

By Bob Snider

Toronto folksinger Bob Snider stretches the definition of a book in his new work. On Songwriting consists of the relatively short title essay accompanied by the lyrics to, and the stories behind, 10 of Snider’s ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Lady Franklin’s Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession, and the Remaking of Arctic History

By Ken McGoogan

Some memorable historical figures worked hard at achieving greatness, others were born to it. Then there’s Sir John Franklin, who had the good fortune to die dramatically and leave behind a remarkable spouse dedicated to ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

★ Dead Man in Paradise

By J.B. MacKinnon

It’s rare that a work of historical non-fiction grabs a reader from page one, but Dead Man in Paradise does exactly that, holding the reader captive as author J.B. MacKinnon embarks on a remarkable journey ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

As if by Accident

By Julie Johnston

It is somewhat frightening to contemplate how vulnerable we are to the vagaries of fate, chance, accident. Children’s author Julie Johnston’s engaging novel (her first for adults) about two people whose paths cross in the ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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