Reviews

Diamonds Forever: Reflections from the Field, the Dugout and the Bleachers

W. P. Kinsella’s baseball novels belong in the Hall of Fame. But this collection of well-known baseball quotes and stories, of which Kinsella was the editor, generates about as much excitement as a late-season game ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Villeneuve: My First Season in Formula 1

By Jacques Villeneuve with Gerald Donaldson

The Canadian passion for Formula 1 racing, largely dormant since Gilles Villeneuve’s fatal crash in 1982, was suddenly reawakened last year when a small, quiet, almost scholarly young Québécois made his spectacular debut at the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

No Crystal Stair

By Mairuth Sarsfield

Set in Montreal during the unsettled years of the Second World War, Sarsfield’s first novel depicts a community largely invisible to white society beyond the roles it has assigned them as maids, musicians, Pullman porters. ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

As for Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross

By Keath Fraser

Early in this memoir, Keath Fraser writes of his subject, “He resisted summary. He took his own measure from a world often foreign to his, the straight world or else another country’s culture, and seldom ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Dispatches from the Poverty Line

By Pat Capponi

A war is being fought across Canada right now, but it’s one we seldom see dramatized in vivid images on the late-night television news. The war, of course, is the poverty war, and depending on your ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The New Land: A First Year on the Prairie

By Marilynn Reynolds, Stephen McCallum, illus.

The account of one family journeying from “the old country” across the ocean and the continent to develop a homestead on the prairies, The New Land seems deliberately general rather than specific in its references, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Moons of Goose Island (first Nations Children’s Literary Series)

By Don K. Philpot, Margaret Hessian, illus.

Thoughtful simplicity and an interesting illustrative approach distinguish this quiet but effective story about bereavement, mourning, and healing. Launching an intended four-book series that will portray contemporary First Nations children in their communities, this first ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Canadian Dog Owner’s Companion: A Guide to Selecting, Caring for and Training Your New Dog or Puppy

By Donna Davidson,Penny Manning

In this concise introductory guide, Donna Davidson and Penny Manning (both dog trainers and writers) cover the latest techniques and resources (including web sites) for owners of new dogs. The result is an excellent overview ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West

By David Cruise and Alison Griffiths

In 1874, the first 300 members of the North West Mounted Police set out on a 900-mile trek to suppress the illegal whiskey trade at the appropriately named Fort Whoop-Up in what is now southern ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: History

Honest Politics

By Ian Greene and David P. Shugarman

The title of Ian Greene and David P. Shugarman’s book reflects their refreshingly optimistic take on political ethics, a subject that often inspires only corrosive cynicism. This book is about fixing the ethical flaws in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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