Rick Smith's and Bruce Lourie’s Slow Death by Rubber Duck Knopf, 2009 By the time the average woman grabs her morning coffee, she has applied 126 different chemicals in 12 different products to her face, body and hair. You’re thinking about it now, aren’t you? Even if you’re not a
Amy Lavender Harris’ Imagining Toronto Mansfield Press, 2010. I first visited Toronto when I was four years old; I fell in love with a park here, a park with wooden forts in which you could climb to their very tops. If you were four years old, or, at least, small.
Terry Griggs’s The Silver Door Raincoast Books, 2004 Have you met Murray Sheaffer, fountain pen extraordinaire? He is a most “handsome, clever and rich (yes!)” fountain pen. Wondering how he could possibly fill the role of hero in Terry Griggs’s Cat’s Eye Trilogy? Then you must have met some other,
George Elliott Clarke’s Whylah Falls (1990) Raincoast Books - Polestar, 2000 George Elliott Clarke’s Whylah Falls tells the story of a group of Afro-Canadians on the south shore of Nova Scotia. Readers can gather that from a quick glance at the book’s front and back covers. But what readers won’t
As if it wasn't enough to obsess about Reading and ReLi-ting, I'm also obsessing about the Toronto Book Award, whose shortlist was announced this week. THE 2011 TORONTO BOOK AWARD (More deets here.) What Disturbs Our Blood, James FitzGerald (Random House) Étienne's Alphabet, James King (Cormorant Books) The Amazing Absorbing
