BOOK REVIEWS

The Ticking Heart

Andrew Kaufman has made a career of using magic and metaphor to shed some entertaining light on human truths and foibles. His sixth novel, The Ticking Heart, literally takes readers to new metaphorical territory. Set ... Read More »

September 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

If Pluto Was a Pea

By Gabrielle Prendergast and Rebecca Gerlings (ill.)

“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Anyone who self-identifies as a nerd (or is friends with a nerd) will recognize that quote from Douglas Adams’s ... Read More »

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

There Was a Black Hole that Swallowed the Universe

By Chris Ferrie and Susan Batori (ill.)

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field

By Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-Ray Belcourt has become one of Canada’s poetry sweethearts since the release of his 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize winner, This Wound Is a World. His sophomore collection – a masterful blend of the personal and ... Read More »

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Akin

By Emma Donoghue

Noah Selvaggio, the protagonist of Emma Donoghue’s new novel, doesn’t like change. His Upper West Side apartment is a shrine to the past; he can’t even bring himself to throw out his dead dog’s old ... Read More »

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Claremont

By Wiebke von Carolsfeld

Claremont, by filmmaker turned novelist Wiebke von Carolsfeld, is a novel about the emotionally messy Michajelovich family, all of whom come with their own baggage and their own techniques for lugging it through life. We ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

There Has to Be a Knife

By Adnan Khan

During the 2014 edition of Canada Reads, Rawi Hage’s novel Cockroach received biting criticism. Its unnamed protagonist is a traumatized immigrant from the Middle East who finds residence in Montreal and ekes out a life ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Highrise: The Towers in the World & the World in the Towers

By Katerina Cizek and Kristy Woudstra (ill.)

Highrise is an exceptional guided tour of sky-reaching residential structures around the globe, adapted from the National Film Board of Canada’s cutting-edge web documentary of the same name. As a way to introduce the project, ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Pokko and the Drum

By Matthew Forsythe

Most parents who have actively indulged a child’s interest or hobby know that, along with the hoped-for moments of pride come more than a few sacrifices. Hockey means pre-dawn rink visits and expensive, smelly equipment. ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise

By Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray spends the first part of her book about the murder of early 20th-century millionaire Harry Oakes describing how many books have already been written about the murder of Harry Oakes. And to tell ... Read More »

August 26, 2019 | Filed under: History, Reviews

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