A “HERITAGE” GEM by Larry Eugene Gray The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything – they just make the best of what they have. Sandra and Larry Gray have certainly done so with this 20 year history of operating the Heritage House Bed and Break-fast in the beautiful city of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [...]
According to Luke, by Rosanne Dingli. Bewrite Books, 2011. 366 pages. Shattered by the breakdown of yet another romance, Jana Hayes becomes a recluse in her tiny Venice apartment and buries herself in her work as an expert art conservator … until an ancient religious icon brings Roman Catholic priest Rob Anderson into her life. The secret they [...]
About The Golden Mean Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Annabel Lyon: A frequent reaction I’ve had from readers is that they went into the book reluctantly, expecting a novel about Aristotle to be dry, and how pleasantly surprised they were to find it violent, sexy, [...]
Bats or Swallows is Teri Vlassopoulos’s debut collection of short fiction. The stories are sharp, accurate, at times dark, but told with balance and skill. The innocence and clarity of her narrative voice reveals new and unexpected layers. Vlassopoulos brings readers into her characters’ worlds; making their desires intelligible, showing how they frame their [...]
Beauty Muse is a visually rich and thoughtfully written book on creativity and nature. With over 100 easy-to-try activities, readers are invited to experience a nature-centered practice of artful connection to ourselves, each other and the world. Beauty Muse will appeal to anyone longing for a creative practice to call their own, in addition to educators, [...]
Breakfast at the Exit Cafe, by Wayne Grady & Merilyn Simonds, is part travelogue, part exploration—a road trip into the reality behind the cultural myth that is America. ~ 2010 Globe 100 Boook ~ Apple Canada Best of 2010 iBook ~ januarymagazine Best Book of 2010 Breakfast at the Exit Cafe begins as a personal story—told [...]
Hump, by Ariel Gordon, published by Palimpsest Press, wins the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Le Prix Lansdowne du poesie at the 2011 Manitoba Book Awards. Judges Michael Harris, Kenneth Meadwell, and Serge Patrice Thibodeau made the following comments about Gordon’s debut: Hump is Ariel Gordon’s first book, coming on the heels of a [...]
BOOK CLUB BUDDY: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? LARRY EUGENE GRAY: Heritage enthusiasts and animal lovers would be interested as well as those who are curious about visiting a Bed and Breakfast and/or are contemplating owning and operating a B&B. At the very least, they should look forward [...]
Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny by Caroline Woodward Oolichan, September 2010 256 pp. $18.95 Reviewed by Emily McIvor Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny is a gripping adventure and a moving love story, with a fast-reading storyline that keeps readers guessing through to the end. Plot is important to this novel, and during the reading of it, I [...]
The Boy, by Betty Jane Hegerat. Oolichan Books. April 2011. 280 pp. $21.95 About The Boy In 1959 Ray and Daisy Cook and their five children were brutally slain in their modest home in the central Alberta town of Stettler. Robert Raymond Cook, Ray Cook’s son from his first marriage, was convicted of the crime, [...]
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