Bill Arnott’s Showcase: The Graydon Hazenberg Interview
An interview with Graydon Hazenburg, author of Pedalling to Kailash.
non-fiction
TMR’s Recommended Reads For 2020/2021 Part 2
Since Part 1 of TMR’s Recommended Reads for 2020/2021, there have been many more wonderful reads crossing our collective desks here at The Miramichi Reader. Before the Spring 2021 releases start flowing in (and some have already) February is a … Continue reading
Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley by Sherill Grace
Sherill Grace’s mammoth work on one of Canada’s greatest writers sets us on course for an exhaustive exploration, not only of Timothy Findley’s life, as the title indicates, but also into his creative mind, heart and spirit.
2020 “The Very Best!” Book Awards: Best Non-Fiction
This year’s non-fiction finalists are a mix of a travelogue, a personal battle with PTSD and loss, and finding gratitude despite facing adversity.
- GOLD: Silver Linings by Janice Landry (Pottersfield Press)
- SILVER: Around The World In A Dugout Canoe by
2020 Shortlist: Best Non-Fiction!
There were so many good non-fiction titles this year! From memoirs to travel to mental health, the five following titles cover it all and more:
- Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father by Brian Harvey (ECW Press)
- Silver Linings by Janice
2020 Shortlist: “The Very Best!” First Book
Best First Book (Fiction or Non-Fiction)
Best First Book is one of the more interesting categories: I’m always wondering if the author has another book in them anytime soon, or was this just a one-off experience? What will their second … Continue reading
Twenty-One Ways to Die in Saskatchewan by R.E. Stansfield
When I asked mom where babies come from she said Regina. I believe. So I spent my childhood thinking every birth occurred in the capital of Saskatchewan. This, combined with the expression people are Saskatchewan’s primary export, and it was … Continue reading
Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times, edited by Catriona Sandilands
In the introduction to Rising Tides, Sandilands states that climate change stories “focus increasingly on thornier questions of persistence, adaptation, resistance, and renewal” instead of apocalypse. Ultimately, the short fiction, poetry and personal climate testimonies in this climate change anthology are about hope.
Top Ten Posts for 2019
Since it is almost the end of 2019 (and another decade slips away), I thought it would be interesting to look back at some of the most popular posts here at The Miramichi Reader for 2019.
Summer Shortlisting 2019: Best Non-Fiction!
I can't wait any longer! Now that the Best First Book shortlist has been revealed, it is time to take a look at the Best Non-Fiction of 2019.
The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee by Ruth DyckFehderau
According to the Diabetes Canada website, there are 11 million Canadians living with diabetes or prediabetes. Every three minutes, another Canadian is diagnosed. For the James Bay Cree living in the territory of Eeyou Istchee in Northern Quebec, “fully … Continue reading
First Quarter Best Reads 2018: Non-Fiction
complement my First Quarter 2018 Best Reads: Fiction, I will now take a closer look at some non-fiction titles I’ve put on the growing 2018 longlist for the Miramichi Reader “The Very Best!” Book Award.
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The Dwindling: A Daughter’s Caregiving Journey to the Edge of Life by Janet Dunnett
The Dwindling (2017, Journeys Press) is a unique book in the Health/Memoir genre for it is written by one-half of a “Twin Team” of identical twin sisters that endeavoured to care for their aged parents, the father with dementia, the … Continue reading
The Call of the Ocean by Jim Wellman
Flanker Press has just released an invaluable book penned by Jim Wellman of twenty-eight fascinating profiles of people who are (or were) involved with the modern ocean fishery industry in one way or another. There are stories of lives lived … Continue reading
Rapid Reviews June 2016
This installment of "Rapid Reviews" includes five titles which run the gamut from Maine to Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and then Canada in general. One is pure fiction, another a combination of memoirs/fiction, one is of Nova Scotia beaches, another about the late Newfoundland musician Ron Hynes, and lastly a reference book on the history of policing in Canada.