This is a book that is hard to read silently: the reader keeps wanting to ask people within earshot if they knew that more plants and animals live in Vancouver Island rain forest than in ... Read More »
March 17, 2004
Although Barbara Nickel’s novel about Anna Maria Walburga Ignatia (Nannerl) Mozart is a well-meaning attempt to bring Wolfgang Mozart’s older sister to centre stage, the argument is too far removed from 18th-century reality. This awkward ... Read More »
March 17, 2004
Stories of a Canadian childhood many decades ago have an intrinsic appeal, especially when they are based on personal memories. This slight but rather engaging novel about life on a small farm in the Canadian ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Young Adult novels tend to follow a familiar formula: first person narrative, contemporary setting (schools and malls), divorced parents, teen problems. Alberta author Martyn Godfrey’s Why Just Me? is no exception. Twelve-year-old Shannon MacKenzie lives ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Miss Rafferty’s rainbow socks move her to lively tunes and joyful dance. Being magic socks, they also grow along with her, even into her old age. And so it is that Miss Rafferty is a ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
While it is true that Pour Orchestre et Poète Seul could never have been written by an English language poet, it is equally true that D.G. Jones’ translation can be easily read as an English ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Michel Marc Bouchard is one of the most innovative, daring, and imaginative of Quebec playwrights, having written such complexly psychological – and complexly theatrical – works as Lilies and The Tale of Teeka. So you’ll ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Toronto writer Cary Fagan has called his new book, The Doctor’s House, “a miniature novel.” At 76 pages it is certainly miniature in its physical dimensions, although Fagan manages more in the small confines of ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The Intern, a new novel by Hamilton, Ontario author David Laing Dawson (and the last of Macmillan’s now defunct fiction line), tells the story of the internship year at a Toronto hospital in the late ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The new face of fiction is bleary, drunk, and male. The spring season has blessed Canada with not one, but three novels about the travails of bloated white guys residing in a mean Toronto. Finally, ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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