Book Review of “All My Puny Sorrows”
Annie Vigna A review of All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews Alfred A. Knopf Canada ISBN 978-0-345-80800-4 $29.95 The title of Miriam Toews’s latest novel was taken from a…
Book Review of “The Long White Sickness” by Cecelia Frey
Annie Vigna a review of The Long White Sickness by Cecelia Frey Inanna Publications and Education Inc. (2013) ISBN 978-1-026708-90-4 $22.95 I attended the launch of this novel in July…
Book Review of “The Boy” by Betty Jane Hegerat
Annie Vigna A review of The Boy By Betty Jane Hegerat Oolichan Books ISBN: 978-0-88982-275-7 $21.95 Betty Jane Hegerat is the author of two novels, a collection of short stories,…
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 “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 “Western Taxidermy” by Barb Howard
Annie Vigna A review of Western Taxidermy by Barb Howard NeWest Press ISBN 978-1-927063-11-8 $19.95 Western Taxidermy is a collection of sixteen new and previously published stories by Barb Howard,…
Book Review of “Red Dog Red Dog” by Patrick Lane
Annie Vigna A Review of Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Lane McClelland & Stewart Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7710-4632-2 $21.00 “Patrick Lane has always walked the thin ice where truth and…
Book Review of ‘And Me Among Them’
Annie Vigna a review of And Me Among Them by Kristen den Hartog Freehand Books ISNB 978-1-55481-054-3 $21.95. Almost five feet tall when she starts school, Ruth towers above the…