Reviews

The Rope in the Water: A Pilgrimage to India

Author Sylvia Fraser’s life story is the florid stuff of daytime TV. Previously she’s chronicled her recovered memories of incest (My Father’s House) and her quirky supernatural experiences (The Book of Strange). The Rope in ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

A Biographical Dictionary of the World’s Assassins

By George Fetherling

It was just over 20 years ago that John Lennon was killed, one in a long line of assassinations that shaped both the 20th century and the contemporary psyche (while the old maxim of remembering ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Planet Earth: The Newest Weapon of War

By Rosalie Bertell

With the election of George W. Bush provoking renewed international concern about plans to launch a Star Wars military program, Rosalie Bertell has produced a timely call to action on the dangers the military poses ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession

By Rosemary Sullivan

Romantic obsession is one of those wickedly tricky subjects that easily lead to a badly written swamp of pitiful sentiment – but not in the discerning hands of veteran biographer Rosemary Sullivan. Turning her attention ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Open Arms

By Marina Endicott

Bessie Smith, the narrator of Open Arms, the first novel by Saskatchewan writer and playwright Marina Endicott, is a young woman with some troubling role models. Her father, an award-winning poet, left her and her ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Jasmine Man

By Lola Lemire Tostevin

Writers like Lola Lemire Tostevin resist the ordinary and predictable in sentences and plots. While she hasn’t sold a zillion books, Tostevin has enjoyed a fine reputation as a thinking, feeling, inventive crafter of fiction ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Louder than the Sea

By Wayne Bartlett

In his other incarnation, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Wayne Bartlett’s most popular song chronicles the closure of the Newfoundland fishery. In Louder than the Sea, his first novel, he tackles similarly political subjects: the necessity of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Sputnik Diner

By Rick Maddocks

Rick Maddocks’ impressive talent isn’t necessarily in telling stories – the five interconnected tales of Sputnik Diner are carefully crafted, but are often preoccupied with plodding exposition. Like Alice Munro, whose works share the common ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Dagmar’s Daughter

By Kim Echlin

In many ways, Kim Echlin’s second novel continues the themes of her first: Elephant Winter set the progress of a mother’s death against the incongruous backdrop of elephants in an Ontario winter. In that book ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Kingdom of Monkeys

By Adam Lewis Schroeder

In the film Apocalypse Now – which functions as a backdrop to one of the stories in this collection – the jungle starts to pick off the increasingly delirious Yanks as they journey upriver, turning ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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