by Lindsey | Sep 27, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
The Music Game would have shattered me when I was twenty-five. At thirty-two, this book still stings me like salt in a wound that hasn’t truly closed. Originally published in French in 2017 and winner of several prizes including the prestigious Ringuet Prize, Stéfanie...
by Lindsey | Aug 23, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
In Stoop City, novelist and short story writer, Kristyn Dunnion, has accomplished every writer’s goal, delivering thirteen fully realized stories that feel for all the world like real life. Set mainly in Toronto, they feature a remarkable range of styles, voices and...
by Lindsey | Jul 21, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Note: author now goes by Sydney Hegele “Who’s ready to earn their beaver badge?” (20) The brutal enchantment of old-world folktales meets the mundane horrors of small-town Ontario in Sydney Hegele’s debut story collection The Pump. With a fast-paced plot and haunting...
by Lindsey | Jun 7, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Each year, Windsor, Ontario-based publisher Biblioasis releases a series of anthologies collecting the best new poetry, non-fiction and fiction produced by Canadian writers. Since 1971, these collections have offered readers an overview of the Canadian literary...
by Lindsey | May 4, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
I feel for the women in Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road, an excellent short story collection by BC author, Marion Quednau. Vive la différence! does not always apply. Paired with stereotypically insensitive paradigms of manhood, these women—from whose points of view the...
by Lindsey | Feb 11, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
August Into Winter by Saskatchewan writer Guy Vanderhaeghe is an enormous gift to fiction lovers: a wonderfully paced, character-driven novel of ideas, an authentic depiction of individuals and a world in crisis. The year is 1939, war is on the horizon, and in the...
