About One for Sorrow, Two for Joy Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Barry Mathias: There is a range and variation in these short stories. Some are strongly autobiographical, others are amusing and in at least two there is definitely an element of the bizarre. BCB: Have [...]
Believing Cedric gives us Cedric Johnson, a middle-aged insurance broker with an unusual problem: he seems to be physically flashing back to pivotal moments from his past. As Cedric journeys through time, he is brought face to face with forgotten memories, heartbreaking loss, the possibilities of love, and the agony of a life of [...]
Believing Cedric by Mark Lavorato gives us something new–a 58-year-old protagonist who travels through time (not because he wants to) to physically revisit moments in his past. Moments that changed the course of his life and moments when he touched others. We learn about these moments through the eyes of those he revisits. It’s an [...]
About What Echo Heard Gordon Sombrowski: I think it is most notable that these stories are universal. The stories are for and about all of us, and thus they will resonate as much with those who do not know Fernie as those who do. I hope readers will find that Echo is not afraid to divulge [...]
Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way from Ireland to Canada by Brian Brennan Rocky Mountain Books, 2011 Reviewed by Bob Blakey Veteran author Brian Brennan (Scoundrels and Scallywags, How the West Was Written, and many other titles) gives us his first book about himself, and it was worth the wait. It’s about his childhood and [...]
The Girl In the Box by Sheila Dalton Dundurn, 2011 Reviewed by Brenda Brooks “The Army’s perception of Mayan communities as natural allies of the guerrillas contributed to increasing and aggravating the human rights violations perpetrated against them, demonstrating an aggressive racist component of extreme cruelty that led to the extermination en masse of defenceless [...]
What Echo Heard by Gordon Sombrowski Oolichan Books, 2011 A little boy writes but never dares to share his writing. The years go by, he keeps writing, and finally four decades later Oolichan Books encourages him to publish a debut a collection of short stories. What Echo Heard is that collection of tales set [...]
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