Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn by Jeanne Beker
On a few Saturday early evenings in the late 80s and early 90s, I often looked forward to watching Jeanne Beker’s Fashion Television.
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The Philosopher Stories by Jerry Levy
Karl Pringle, the luckless misfit at the centre of Jerry Levy’s collection of linked short fiction, The Philosopher Stories, is someone most of us can identify with, regardless of (or maybe because of) the fact that he is often deceitful, sometimes deluded, and pretty much always mired in a sinkhole of self-pity.
Gibby: Tales of a Baseball Lifer by John Gibbons and Greg Oliver
A captivating and candid memoir from one of the most beloved and colorful figures in Toronto Blue Jays history.
An Unrecognized Contribution: Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto by Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Women’s stories are told in this wide-ranging collection of biographies, the result of Muir’s research on early street directories and city histories, personal diaries, and other historical works.
Night in the World by Sharon English
Night in the World explores the need to end our separations from each other and from nature — coming home, at last, to a beleaguered yet still beautiful world.
The Bank Street Peeper By Erma Odrach
The events in The Bank Street Peeper by Erma Odrach are set in Toronto, but they defy the constrictions of time and place.
Pull Focus by Helen Walsh
When Jane’s partner goes missing she needs to find out if he’s in danger while also contending with the politics of a large international film festival: Hollywood power brokers, Russian oil speculators, Chinese propagandists, and a board chair who seemingly has it out for her.
The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales by Emily Brewes
The Doomsday Book Of Fairy Tales By Emily Brewes is an astounding tale of a dangerous quest, a talking dog, and fragmented fairy tales in an eerie post-climate collapse future.
Dancing with Chairs in the Music House by Caro Soles
Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist, she learns a lot more.
Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
Note: For the past three summers, Naomi of the Consumed by Ink book review blog and I have been swapping a book review. This year I reviewed The Afrikaner by Arianna Dagnino for her site, and she has written a review of the critically-acclaimed book by Jamaican-Canadian author Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain (2019, House of …
Murder Lost to Time by Joseph A. Lapello
[dropcap]The [/dropcap]year is 1917. Less than two decades into the new century and already the Great War is occurring in the muddy fields of France. Soon there will be the Spanish Influenza which will kill many more millions. An inauspicious start to a new millennium, to be sure. In one of Canada’s largest cities, Toronto, …
Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
The nice thing about book bloggers is their willingness to share their posts on books I would like to read, but just can’t work them into my “to-be-read” stack. Here’s another Giller shortlist book reviewed by Naomi at Consumed by Ink. What I love so much about reading the Giller books is that there are …
