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 | 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 | Oct 19, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
It sometimes feels like the expressiveness of the typewriter as a tool for composition is one of the best kept secrets in poetry and poetics. The ability to mark the page or to type over the marks already there, to feed the page through at different angles in order to...
