About Drive by Saviours Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Chris Benjamin: The majority of Canadians are either immigrants or descendents of immigrants. Each of those two meta-cultures are well represented in our literature (especially the latter). This is a rare story in that it gives equal [...]
Drive-by Saviours by Chris Benjamin Roseway Publishing, 2010 320 pp Since its 2010 debut, Drive by Saviours has received much good press as a finely written “social novel.” Weeks after its release, Drive-by Saviours made the Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Books list. It won the Salty Ink 2010 Judge a Book by Its Cover contest and was [...]
Finding Maria by Jennifer Hatt Marechal Media Inc. (April 21, 2011) “The best answers in life are found at the bottom of a good cup of coffee,” his mother always said. Jack Brandugan believed the answers to his life were to be found in the person chosen for him to love. From the time he [...]
About Monoceros Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Suzette Mayr: That even though it’s a book about the tragedy of suicide and its after-effects, it’s still got its funny moments. BCB: Have you acquired any good anecdotes surrounding this book? If so, could you share one? [...]
The Anatomy of Clay by Gillian Sze ECW Press (April 2011) About The Anatomy of Clay: Taking off from the Promethean myth of human creation, Gillian Sze’s second poetry collection explores the “anatomy of clay” and the individual as a sentient mystery. At times reflective, instructional, playful, or strange, the first section, Quotidianus, offers observational [...]
Wore Down Trust: A Blues in Three Lives By Michael Blouin Pedlar Press, 2011 Wore Down Trust is a blues medley of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and biography, a collection of poetic pieces written about and in the voices of two men, Johnny Cash and Alden Nowlan, narrated by a third who may or may [...]
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