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...
by Lindsey | Dec 13, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Inspired by the people and events of her childhood in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Carmella Gray-Cosgrove’s debut story collection Nowadays and Lonelier offers searingly intimate portraits of characters who exist in the tension between holding on and letting go–of...
by Lindsey | Nov 26, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Casey Plett is the author of the novel Little Fish, and the short story collection, A Safe Girl to Love. Her second collection of short fiction, A Dream of a Woman, is a powerful blend of stories and perspectives. Plett’s voice is strong and fully realized in this...
by Lindsey | Nov 15, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
The compelling story of a young man’s odyssey through two wars and two occupations. As I read Anne Lazurko’s powerful, new historical novel, What Is Written on the Tongue, I found myself repeatedly asking, “what would I do?” What would I do to save myself and my...
by Lindsey | Nov 1, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Just as reading aloud spooky ghost stories was a fun Christmas tradition in the Victorian era, Biblioasis and famous Canadian cartoonist Seth now have a firmly established tradition of re-publishing some of these stories, illustrating them and serving them up to...
by Lindsey | Sep 8, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
We take many journeys when we read; the most interesting ones are those that writers lead us to by creating worlds that bring us to destinations which can be illuminating and sometimes surprising. Sophie Stocking, a writer from Alberta and the author of the novel,...
