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…
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…
Book Review of “Night-Eater” by Patricia Young
Micheline Maylor A review of Night-Eater by Patricia Young Quattro Books ISBN 978-1-927443-01-9 $14.95 Patricia Young’s Night-Eater provides a collection of portraits, not the type of portraits you would find…
Book review of YVR by W. H. New
Micheline Maylor A review of YVR by W. H. New Oolichan Books (2011) ISBN 978-0-86492-668-5 $17.95 In W. H. New’s tenth book of poetry he investigates his hometown, Vancouver. The…
Book Review of “Duck Boy” by Bill Bunn
Lynn C. Fraser Review of Duck Boy by Bill Bunn Bitingduck Press (2012) ISBN 978-1-938463-37-2 e-book $4.99 Duck Boy is a novel filled with symbolism and Alchemy. The first symbol,…