Book Review of “the id kid” by Linda Besner
Micheline Maylor a review of the id kid by Linda Besner Signal Editions – Vehicule Press ISBN 978-1-55065-313-7 $18.00 A quick googling of Linda Besner reveals a clown-nose portrait, the…
Book Review of “Light Lifting” by Alexander MacLeod
Kate Marlow a review of Light Lifting By Alexander MacLeod Biblioasis (2010) ISBN: 978-1-89723-194-4 $19.95 Light Lifting is Alexander MacLeod’s award-winning debut collection of short fiction. It is a collection…
Book Review of “The Beauty of Humanity Movement”
Annie Vigna a review of The Beauty of Humanity Movement By Camilla Gibb Doubleday Canada ISBN: 978-0-385-66322-9 $32.95 Hu’ng’s neighbours have begun to line up with their bowls. The old…
Book Review of “Memoir of a Good Death” by Anne Sorbie
Annie Vigna a review of Memoir of a Good Death by Anne Sorbie Thistledown Press ISBN 978-1-897235-81-2 $19.95 Anne Sorbie’s novel is of duality and contrasts, of landscape—both land and…
Book Review of “Rats of Las Vegas” by Lisa Pasold
Kate Marlow a review of Rats of Las Vegas by Lisa Pasold Enfield & Wizenty ISBN 978-1-8942839-2-2 $29.95 Lisa Pasold’s debut novel Rats of Las Vegas is engrossing, spirited, and…
A Conversation with Alice Major about “Intersecting Sets, A Poet Looks at Science”
by Bob Stallworthy A Conversation with Alice Major about Intersecting Sets, A Poet Looks at Science University of Alberta Press Fall 2012 I’ve known Alice Major for twenty-seven years. I…
Book Review of “What Echo Heard” by Gordon Sombrowski
Rea Tarvydas a review of What Echo Heard by Gordon Sombrowski Oolichan, 2011 ISBN 978-0-88982-279-5 $21.95 This debut collection of linked short stories illuminates the social stratification of the…
Book Review of “Brown Dwarf” by K.D. Miller
Barbara L. Black a review of Brown Dwarf By K.D. Miller Biblioasis, April 2010 ISBN 978-1-897231-88-3 $17.95 KD Miller’s book Brown Dwarf, starts out sounding like a young girl’s Dear…
Book Review of “Selector of Souls” by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shelley McAneeley A review of The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin Knopf Canada (2012) ISBN 978-0307362926 $32.00 Damini, one protagonist, is presented as both murderess and goddess. Damini’s…
Book Review of “The Shore Girl” by Fran Kimmel
Annie Vigna a review of The Shore Girl By Fran Kimmel NeWest Press, 2012 ISBN 9781927063170 $19.95 I haven’t finished reading the first page of this novel and already “my…