Reviews

Stratford Gold

The Stratford Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer, so books about its history are virtually guaranteed a good sale, even if they serve simply to decorate coffee tables as a sign of cultural ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Fifty Seasons at Stratford

By Robert Cushman

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Doors Open Toronto: Illuminating the City’s Great Spaces

By John Sewell

In the mid-1990s, former Toronto mayor and left-wing political columnist John Sewell conducted an indefatigable (but ultimately unsuccessful) campaign against the amalgamation of the city’s municipal governments. He peppered his criticism of the province’s proposal ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Secret Language of Girls

By Josey Vogels

There aren’t many secrets revealed in The Secret Language of Girls. But, then again, I’m a girl, making me privy, I suppose, to these secrets. The book is the fourth from Josey Vogels, a Canadian ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Promise of Salt

By Lorie Miseck

There’s something about the experience of grieving that memoirs capture particularly well. Perhaps because grief is so little understood, so socially difficult, and because it can take such a surprisingly long time to overcome, the ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Eloise: Letters to a Lost Child

By Loise Lavallee

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family’s Experience Living in a Haunted House

By Dorah L. Williams

She’s no Stephen King. And she’s no John Robert Colombo (author of a series of books about haunted Ontario). Yet this chilling memoir by Dorah Williams, an ordinary housewife and mother of three, still manages ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 Bc

By Henry T. Aubin

Something happened 2,700 years ago in a corner of the Assyrian Empire, and according to Montreal journalist Henry Aubin, it was vitally important to the development of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and our modern world. In ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: History

Where the Words Come from: Canadian Poets in Conversation

By Tim Bowling,ed.

Do readers need another collection of interviews with poets? No matter where they came from, a poet’s most important words surely go into the poetry. And as long as the poems themselves remain insufficiently read, ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Dispatches from the Sporting Life

By Mordecai Richler

The posthumous release of Mordecai Richler’s Dispatches from the Sporting Life, a collection of 20 essays on sports spanning more than 30 years, is like a collection of B sides from your favourite band – ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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