Book Review: As Grandmother Said: The Narratives of Bessie Meguinis”
The University of Regina Press is doing important work with their commitment to honouring the traditional languages, legends and cultures of Canada’s First Peoples…
Book Review: Food for the Journey: A Life in Travel
Calgary novelist and short fiction writer Elizabeth J. Haynes has just published a new book, and this time it’s an essay collection. Food for the Journey: A Life in Travel is the kind of book…
Book Review: The Dark King Swallows the World
This book drew me in immediately with the title - The Dark King Swallows the World. How could a royal leader swallow the entire world? What a claim!
Book Review: From the Ground Up: An Anthology of New Fiction
Annabel Townsend loved the “From the Ground Up” theme of Regina’s Cathedral Village Arts Festival (2024) so much, she used it as the theme for an anthology…
Book Review: Theories of Everything
In less than 180 pages, Dwayne Brenna’s short story collection, Theories of Everything, takes readers around the globe into disparate eras and unique voices…
Book Review: Charged!: The Dangerous and Misguided Promise of the Electric Vehicle
I’ve always been wary about how so-called experts have pushed consumers to purchase electric vehicles over gas powered modes of transportation.
Book Review: Walking Upstream
Saskatoon’s Lloyd Ratzlaff—essayist, former minister, walker in wild places—has released his first poetry collection, and wow. I know this man and have long believed that poetry lives in him…
Book Review: Hello
Hello is the first book of fiction I have read by Saskatchewan writer, David Carpenter, after having read two of his nonfiction books, Courting Saskatchewan and The Education of Augie Merasty.
Books and the City: Psychogeographical Wanderings Around Toronto’s Independent Bookstores
It’s entirely wonderful to finish a book and immediately recognize that the author could be your new best friend. Annabel Townsend is a British-born, Regina, SK writer, and her nonfiction title…
Book: The Lavender Child
The Lavender Child is a beautifully unique and creative story with unforgettable characters and a plot that keeps readers intrigued.
Gehl v Canada: Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act
Knowing I am a reader, a friend of mine asked me an interesting question recently: “Are there any book publishers that you will read their books without even knowing what the book is about?”
Book Review: Earth Angels – Operation Angel
Think you know angels? Earth Angels – Operation Angel may change your mind. The chapbook by Saskatoon-based author Marion Mutala explores angels…
Book Review: “Sticks & Bones” offers meditative haiku and senryu
Victoria poet Allison Douglas-Tourner captures the natural world and human experience in her new collection, Sticks & Bones: Haiku and Senryu (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing).
Book Review: The Day I Went to My First Football Game
When Finn’s grandparents give him a football jersey and tickets to his first professional game for his seventh birthday, he is both excited and a little nervous.
Book Review: The Sun Makes A Sound, by Andy Whitman
Andy Whitman’s debut novel The Sun Makes A Sound opens with immediate tension. Mason Brigster-Contreras jolts awake in his tent to a threatening noise he fears is a polar bear.
Book: Saskatoon author re-releases chapbook promoting peace
SASKATOON – Prolific Saskatoon writer Marion Mutala has re-released her 2015 chapbook The Time for Peace Is Now, a reflection on love, equality and global harmony.
Book Review: Tales This Side of the Elysian Fields
Trevor W. Harrison’s Tales This Side of the Elysian Fields is a captivating collection of travel stories drawn from his journeys across the globe in the 1970s and 1980s.
Book: The Pathological Casebook of Dr. Frances McGill – New Edition
Crime novels are my go-to genre, so I was thrilled to discover this biography of Saskatchewan’s own Sherlock Holmes – Dr. Frances McGill, Canada’s first female pathologist…
Book Review: Ghost Hotel
Arthur Slade’s Ghost Hotel, the second novel in his Canadian Chills series, has been resurrected for a new generation of readers.
Book: “The Genius Hour Project” by Leanne Shirtliffe
Leanne Shirtliffe’s The Genius Hour Project is a delightful and realistic middle-grade novel that transcends its young protagonist, Frazzy, an eleven-year-old audiophile…