When Gloria Steinem said that there "is no one I respect more in the trenches---or on the page", she was speaking of Michele Landsberg. Between 1978 and 2005, she wrote more than 3,000 columns for "The Toronto Star", fired by the injustices that she observed around her. Some of these
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
The chapter titles of this work reveal that it's not some kind of textbook resource on crows: Getting Up, Preparing, Reading, Walking, Dwelling, Helping, Seeing, Coexisting, Dying and Flying. Then again, the subtitle should have been my first clue (Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness), that Crow Planet is as much
It's Rebecca's fault that I read this. And does the fact that she enjoyed it so much suggest that she has never actually read any of those works she has discussed on Of Books and Bicycles? You'll have to ask her about that. Raincoast Books, 2007Trans. Jeffrey Mehlman
I first read Joan Bodger's How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books (1959) about twenty years ago, and I recall liking it well enough, but wishing that there was a little more about their bookishness and a little less about England. Now I think it's a perfect blend.
