Writing Gordon Lightfoot is nominated for the 2012 Toronto Book Award. McClelland & Stewart, 2011 Many readers will say that they never read a book just because it has been nominated for an award. There are just as many people who rarely read but will, occasionally, pick up
Today's bookish chatter: featuring Cornelia Hoogland's Woods Wolf Girl and two snack-sized servings of Daniel Griffin's Stopping for Strangers and Tony Burgess' Idaho Winter. Wolsak & Wynn, 2011 Cornelia Hoogland's Woods Wolf Girl is a page-turner of a poetry collection. Even if you are already familiar with the roots of
Copernicus Avenue ends in a snarl of streetcar tracks. "We reached the bottom of the street where it widens into a multi-veined delta of streetcar tracks." Andrew J. Borkowski's Copernicus Avenue is a series of stories that intersect with each other, just as the rails from Queen Street, King Street, and the Avenue
In today's bookish chatter: a plateful of Rosemary Nixon's Kalila and two snack-sized servings of Britt Holmström's Leaving Berlin and George Elliot Clarke's Red. If Rosemary Nixon's Kalila came with a cover summary, many readers would put the book aside. And, yet, only a few pages into the story, the
As with the fiction of Julia Glass and Bonnie Burnard, Meg Mitchell Moore is interested in what makes families work. Reagan Arthur Books - Little Brown, 2011 That's not to say that they always work well: when The Arrivals opens, some aspects of family life are taut and
