by Lindsey | Jan 5, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
In From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History, author, researcher, and curator Adriana A. Davies crafts a detailed narrative about how an immigrant community impacted and was impacted by the formation of modern-day Alberta. This is an expertly-researched...
by Lindsey | Aug 26, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
After several novels, adult and young adult, and a children’s book for which he won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2017, David Robertson has written a memoir. This current work recently received accolades, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and the...
by Lindsey | May 12, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction
Last year, the Covid-19 pandemic opened a schism that marks what many people now consider a “before and after.” The before: concerts, commutes, handshakes, birthday candles. The after: masks, six foot separations, grocery store line-ups, Zoom. March 2021 marks...
by Lindsey | Feb 18, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction
Marion Agnew didn’t want to write about her brilliant, often formidable, mother. Instead, she wanted to save her. But as it became clear that was impossible, she began to write, searching for ways to understand and accept her mother even as the person she’d once been...
by prfire | Mar 26, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
In Lori Cayer’s fourth book of poetry, Mrs Romanov, she beautifully crafts an intimate and passionate interior life for Alexandra Feodorovna, the last tsarina of Imperial Russia. Perhaps because we are so familiar with her story–Feodorovna, her...
by prfire | Jul 10, 2019 | Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction
Here’s two reviews that really belong together. Read on! Gush: Menstrual Manifestos for our Times: Eds. Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon and Tanis MacDonald “I’ll tell you frankly, it’s good to be a Crone, and to use my Crone-honed research abilities to...
