Wily trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a little solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the friends through the snowy woods to the mall — a place they had never seen before. The trickster goes crazy with glee as he shops with abandon, only ...
Glass Voices by Carol Bruneau 2007 Since I am always drawn to Maritime fiction I was delighted to discover Carol Bruneau’s Glass Voices. The story begins in Halifax in the 1960s with Lucy and Harry, an older couple settled into their predictable and somewhat monotonous routine of daily life. On this ...
“ Atlantic Canada’’s 100 Greatest Books” reviews the top one hundred Atlantic Canadian books-both fiction and nonfiction-ever published, as chosen by a panel of local readers and literary luminaries. For fans of Canadian literature this is a great reminder of what wonderful local talent that surroun ...
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion — has long pred ...
Finished October 30 Underground by June Hutton This is a book I asked for and got for my birthday this year and finally got around to reading. I'm sorry I waited as I really enjoyed it. It tells the story of Albert Fraser, who enlists as a soldier in World War I at the age of sixteen, is injured and ...
Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay 2009 I couldn’t put this book down. If you like suspense thrillers then you have to read Linwood Barclay’s new book Fear the Worst. Suddenly one day Tim Blake’s daughter Sydney disappears on her way to work. When Tim goes to the motel where she works to track her do ...
Finished October 26 A Very Fine Line by Julie Johnston Rosalind Kemp is the youngest of several sisters and lives in a small town in Ontario. She is a bit of a tomboy as well as an artist and is trying to find her own place in the world when she encounters her gift of second sight. When she finds ou ...
Tainted: a Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery by Ross Pennie 2009 A real treat for Burlington readers – a debut novel from physician and McMaster University professor Ross Pennie set in our own backyard. Dr. Zol Szabo lives on Hamilton Mountain, works on Concession Street and has a favourite restaurant i ...
For some reason, it took me over a week to read Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it — I enjoyed it very much, as I usually do with her books. It was beautifully written, but I had a difficult time getting into the second half. I don’t know why! The first half was really ...
The Killing Circleby Andrew Pyper 2008 Widowed father of a young son, Patrick Rush has gradually sunk (often in a drunken stupor) from book reviewer at a national Canadian newspaper to watching endless tapes of mindless reality shows in his new position as TV critic. He decides to act on his old amb ...
