In my family, you didn't have to buy diet books. It wasn't that we weren't shopping at Stuckey's and Coyle's: we did so, in bulk. But someone else in the family was guaranteed to have bought whatever new diet book was making waves, so you could borrow their dogeared paperback.
The title story of this collection, my favourite, "The Variance", is filled with so many details that it reads a little like a logic puzzle. (I like logic puzzles and short stories.) 2012; Doubleday - Random House, 2013 Sometimes the details have direct and practical significance, as with
Miriam Sorrell's Mouthwatering Vegan: Over 130 Irresistible Recipes for Everyone is 1/3 cup enticing, 1/3 cup sophisticated, and 1/3 cup inspirational. Appetite - Random House of Canada, 2013 And it never hurts to have a blurb from Sir Paul McCartney: "In a world where more and more people are considering a meat-free
Clotilde Dusoulier's The French Market Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes from My Parisian Kitchen is 1/3 cup beautiful, 1/3 cup useful, and 1/3 cup inspirational. Clarkson Potter - Crown Publishers(Random House), 2013 Most immediately striking is the unexpected combination of its size with its striking photographs. It is compact, which suggests it is
The reader of Wayne Grady's first novel is held in as careful an embrace as the woman in the dancing couple on Emancipation Day's cover. Doubleday Canada - Random House Canada 2013 There is a sense that each word of the story has been chosen deliberately, even without
