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…
Book: The Suspension Bridge
Anna Dowdall’s mysterious, allegorical novel The Suspension Bridge has the subtitle, “A Sister Harriet Mystery,” but it could just as easily be subtitled…
Book: Soulworm
I missed it the first time, but what’s old is new again—Aurora Award-winning author Edward Willett’s YA fantasy novel, Soulworm, has been auspiciously re-released.
Book: Loved Beyond Compare: A Journey of Miracles and Resilience During a Wicked War
It was with great anticipation that I received Dr. Jane Amana Ekong’s memoir Loved Beyond Compare for review. I love reading about other peoples’ faith journeys…
Book: Standstill: A Hopewell Earthworks Daybook and Other Essays
I’ve long admired the breadth of Bruce Rice’s sophisticated poetry, and now, with the publication of Standstill: A Hopewell Earthworks Daybook and Other Essays…
Book: Realia
As a longtime reviewer, I occasionally receive a book that I quickly discern will require disproportionate time and patience to digest.
Book: Over the Dragon’s Wall
Book One in the Children of Koshluk series, Over the Dragon’s Wall is a tremendous surprise of a book. In it, we are introduced to 13-year-old Sage, who lives in the woods…
Book: Releasing Your Need to Please: Escaping Romantic Relationships with Narcissistic Women
I wanted to review Releasing Your Need To Please: Escaping Romantic Relationships with Narcissistic Women because of the premise.
Book: I Think We’ve Been Here Before
The biggest compliment I can give to Suzy Krause’s I Think We’ve Been Here Before is that it is a comforting, fuzzy-sweater-type book about the bleakest topic imaginable…