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…
Book: Dentists Are No Big Deal
Dentists Are No Big Deal is the newest title in Ashley Vercammen’s No Big Deal children’s series, co-written with Viceroy author Debbie Kesslering.
Book: The Wind and Amanda’s Cello
It’s been such fun watching Regina author (and musician) Alison Lohans successfully focus her literary talents in so many different directions.
Book: Where’s Johnny?: The Tale of a Lost Cat
Johnny, the big Maine Coon cat, had a perfect life. He was well loved by his family of four, and he loved them back. But when Johnny and his family move to a new neighbourhood…
Book: The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle
I was excited to read BC poet Harold Rhenisch’s The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle, as I know him to be a respected writer working in various genres…