BOOK REVIEWS

Running Downhill Like Water

There’s a line in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover: “It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.” In Jane Woods’s second work of fiction, Running ... Read More »

July 12, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Disability Experience:  Working Toward Belonging

By Hannalora Leavitt; Belle Wuthrich (ill.)

In The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging, Hannalora Leavitt provides an overview of the experiences of people with disabilities in North America. This easy-to-follow nonfiction book debunks negative perceptions through case studies that position disability ... Read More »

July 8, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Unlocking

By Amy LeBlanc

Though about 3,000 kilometres and a century apart on the map of Canadian literary places, Amy LeBlanc’s Snowton, Alberta, recalls Stephen Leacock’s Mariposa, Ontario – both little towns sketched with a fondness that’s not shy ... Read More »

July 7, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Shaman’s Apprentice

By Zacharias Kunuk;  Megan Kyak-Monteith (ill.)

The Shaman’s Apprentice – a picture book based on award-winning Inuit director Zacharias Kunuk’s short film Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice, in turn adapted from a traditional Inuit story – follows Supijaq, a young Inuk who ... Read More »

July 6, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Hunter and the Old Woman

By Pamela Korgemagi

Where is the line between human and animal, and what happens when that line is blurred – or crossed? In Pamela Korgemagi’s verdant and eerie debut novel, that question is put to the readers over ... Read More »

July 5, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By Dean Jobb

Thomas Neill Cream’s early life was uneventful – born in Scotland in 1850 and raised in Quebec City – and he progressed through medical school at McGill and in Great Britain; he then worked in ... Read More »

June 30, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ Her Epic Adventure:  25 Daring Women Who Inspire a Life Less Ordinary

By Julia De Laurentiis Johnston; Salini Perera (ill.)

Toronto journalist Julia De Laurentiis Johnston’s biographies of intrepid women celebrates a refreshingly diverse group of accomplished trailblazers from around the world and throughout history. The succinct and spirited entries are organized into five sections: ... Read More »

June 29, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ What Strange Paradise

By Omar El Akkad

What Strange Paradise, the powerful new novel from Omar El Akkad, begins with a stark and disturbingly familiar image: “The child lies on the shore. All around him the beach is littered with the wreckage ... Read More »

June 28, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Long Distance

By Whitney Gardner

Over a year into a global pandemic that continues to shape our daily lives, this new middle-grade graphic novel from Whitney Gardner takes a timely look at what it means to be kept apart from ... Read More »

June 24, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist Clergy’s Radically Honest Tale

By Cheri DiNovo

Marginalized people in her orbit might picture Cheri DiNovo as a pollinating bee, buzzing from one bloom to the next, never in a straight line. The more comfortable and powerful people who are challenged by ... Read More »

June 23, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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