Sheldon Funk is having a rough go of things. ECW Press, 2012 His most meaningful relationship right now is with his cat, and he is under no illusions about its sustainability. "I don't think cats like anyone. They're only biding time until they evolve thumbs. Then we're probably
The first time that I finished reading this story, I thought it was all about happiness. No doubt influenced by the last line and by the knowledge of later Alice Munro stories pulling that theme to their hearts. (The collection Too Much Happiness immediately comes to mind.) After I read
A cult figure. A "genuine anti-hero; an impossible character yet impossible not to like". Random House Canada, 2012Trans. Don Bartlett That's how the author's site describes Harry Hole, who is at the heart of Jo Nesbø's popular series. 'Hole' is pronounced Hoo-leh, by the way, although the Australians in
Little Brown & Company, 2012 Growing Up Brave begins with the author arriving to deliver a talk a couple of years ago, shocked that the modest attendance she had expected was a crowd of 700 people in a high school auditorium. The audience was comprised of parents, caregivers, guidance
A remarkable rise in children's emotional and behavioural problems? 2011; W.W. Norton & Company, 2012 A striking upsurge in the diagnoses of ADHD, childhood depression and bipolar disorder, autism? A significant increase in the number of children taking psychiatric medications? It's a mental health epidemic. Or, not. What
