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...
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...
