Reviews

Fishing for Brookies, Browns and Bows: The Old Guy’s Complete Guide to Catching Trout

At casting demonstrations Gord Deval has been known to slice up a peeled banana at 40 feet with a well-aimed hook. This fact – and the prodigious amount of information in Fishing for Brookies, Browns ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mp3: Music on the Internet

By Rod Underhill and Nat Gertler

MP3 technology is revolutionizing the music business. Now, with the click of a mouse and a little expertise, listeners can download their favourite tunes from a cyberspace menu of thousands of songs and either listen ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Insolent Boy

By John D. Stiles

After earning a nasty reputation in his claustrophobic Nova Scotia home town, young Selwyn Davies runs off, like many a wandering, forever-unsatisfied protagonist before him, to earn a similar reputation around the world. The pace ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Thunder and Light

By Marie-Claire Blais,Nigel Spencer, trans.

Thunder and Light is the sequel to Marie-Claire Blais’ astonishing These Festive Nights (1997), a novel that won international praise – and a Governor General’s Award – in its original French version, Soifs. Another book ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life

By Camilla Gibb

Given the certainties of death, misfortune, and betrayal, why do we persevere in trying to build lives of usefulness and contentment? Toronto’s Camilla Gibb looks for answers in her second novel, The Petty Details of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast

By Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, eds.

Many famous writers have been addicted to alcohol or drugs; the names of Malcolm Lowry, William S. Burroughs, Margaret Laurence, and Gwendolyn MacEwen come immediately to mind. But those who wrote about their addictions often ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Angel in the Sun: Turner’s Vision of History

By Gerald Hanley

War is not a picturesque scene. Yet J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), an eminent historical landscape painter of the romantic era, managed to draw beauty out of darkness without glorifying it. Scorched with symbolism and allegory, the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Simple Recipes

By Madeleine Thien

In the title story in this collection a father cooks for his family with meticulous love, weighing out the rice in his fingers, frying the fish that only a short time before was still swimming. ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Vinyl Cafe Diaries

By Stuart McLean

The lives and misadventures of Toronto record-store owner Dave, his wife Morley, and their children Stephanie and Sam are a Canadian institution both on the airwaves and in print. McLean’s style is characterized by a ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Life: The Siren Song of Politics

By Steve Paikin

Journalist and television host Steve Paikin’s authorial debut, The Life, promises to shed light on the seductive call of Canadian politics, but underdelivers on this ambitious goal. Paikin uses the political lives of such Canadian ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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