BOOK REVIEWS

★ Two Drops of Brown in a Cloud of White

By Saumiya Balasubramaniam and Eva Campbell (ill.)

Even in the best of times, getting through a Canadian winter in good spirits is no easy task. Three new picture books come to the rescue, framing snowy weather as a precious opportunity for different ... Read More »

October 26, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Snow Song

By A.K. Riley and Dawn Lo (ill.)

October 26, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Daughter of Here

By Ioana Georgescu; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

The French title of Ioana Georgescu’s third novel is La jetée. Elle s’appellera Mo. This translates roughly as “The pier. She will be called Mo.” Film buffs will recognize the nod to Chris Marker’s 1962 ... Read More »

October 22, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Magic Dark and Strange

By Kelly Powell

There’s something about the Victorian era that lures the mystery writer. Perhaps it’s the shadowy gaslit streets or the sweeping, barren countryside. Maybe it’s the age’s lurid fascination with death and spiritualism, the heavy division ... Read More »

October 22, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Deadly Curious

By Cindy Anstey

October 22, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Mysterious Stones

By Enrique Pérez Díaz and Yayo (ill.); Alina Ruiz (trans.)

The latest title from one of Cuba’s most celebrated authors for young people shimmers with small moments of joy despite a subtle undercurrent of loss and longing. After dreaming about his papá, who has sailed ... Read More »

October 19, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Occidental Hotel

By John Bentley Mays

The essay by author Antanas Sileika that opens the late John Bentley Mays’s previously unpublished final novel, The Occidental Hotel, is bracingly upfront in managing a reader’s expectations. “I cautioned John that many Canadian readers ... Read More »

October 19, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Like a Bird

By Fariha Róisín

“Truth is what you’ve experienced. It’s what you know.” So says Taylia Chatterjee, the first-person narrator of Australian-Canadian author Fariha Róisín’s debut novel. Taylia voices what has become a staple of postmodern, therapy-inspired philosophy: truth ... Read More »

October 15, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Journal of a Travelling Girl

By Nadine Neema and Archie Beaverho (ill.)

On August 4, 2005, the Tłįchǫ Agreement came into effect. As a result of this accord, Canada ceded rights relating to land and resources back to the Tłįchǫ government and promised that henceforth Canada would ... Read More »

October 15, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community

By Justin Ling

Toronto’s Bruce McArthur was a regular feature in the city’s gay village. He regularly met other local men for purposes of intimacy. When circumstances permitted, he also strangled them to death. The circuitous manhunt that ... Read More »

October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

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