Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #61
Featuring Maria Giesbrech, Jane Doucet. Adriana Oniță, and JoAnn McCaig.
Featured Posts
Featured posts at TMR
To Leave a Warrior Behind: The Life and Stories of Charles R. Saunders, the Man Who Rewrote Fantasy by Jon Tattrie
In this tale, Tattrie brings the reader on a journey of media, Nova Scotia, and our Black history beyond the pages by sharing stories of the people and their obstacles.
Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Battle to Become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb
Through 2023 and into 2024, Himelfarb attends the tournaments, interviews the players, and traces the journeys to get to the highest level of the chess world.
On Sports | Interview with David Macfarlane
I had to admit to myself that I have this love-hate relationship with sports – quite a profound love-hate relationship to the point where I tell this story on myself that’s not in the book.
A Current Through the Flesh by Richard-Yves Sitoski
As this suggests, for the author, family came with considerable pain, both psychological and physical.
ITTY BITTY REVIEWS: Issue #6
With reviews of books by Jack Daniel Christie, A. Daniyal, and Kit Roffey
Infinite Audition by Charlie Petch
Anyone who lived in Toronto in the late 80s/early 90s will know this place, will know what this time did to bodies trying to find love and acceptance, bodies willing to pay any price.
Throwback: Island by Douglas Walbourne-Gough
This is a particularly raw collection of poetry, I felt, the blank verse tumbling across the page in a cry to be read and felt.
Temporary Palaces by Jeff Miller
It is perhaps in the valleys between each ripple, not the peaks, that Miller does his best work. The real emotional substance of the book thrives in the quiet moments, the silence before and after the bangs.
The Fall-Down Effect by Liz Johnston
Once a family experiences a wholly destabilizing trauma, and is fractured—how does it heal or reform in the proceeding years, and is this recovery ever sufficient?
Excavating Identity from a Near-forgotten History: Go-Between Girl by Andrea Gunraj
Go-Between Girl, by Andrea Gunraj, is a memoir told across a collection of essays that examines what it means to be the descendent of the racialized indentured class.
Independent Bookstore Day 2026 and Sue Slade
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is April 25, 2026! TMR has a hard-working editor busy with all things East Coast, PLUS her day-time job as manager of Dartmouth Book Exchange. Sue Slade works tirelessly advocating for Atlantic authors, discovering books of all descriptions, and meeting with people who read! TMR is proud to recognize Sue Slade …
The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
Niko Stratis’s The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman is a book for this moment when we’re re-evaluating algorithmic curation and rediscovering the human connections in our playlists.
A Sense of Things Beyond by Renée Belliveau
A Sense of Things Beyond by Renée Belliveau is a compelling and well-researched historical fiction novel set in the wake of World War I.
