Tell us what you think!
  • We welcome your feedback, constructive criticism, and/or error reports about the website.

  • * REQUIRED

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

All Book Reviews

For all book reviews published by Canadian Literature and other back issue content, see Full Issues.



Sense and Senselessness (p. 187-88)
by Heidi Butler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sheilagh’s Brush by Maura Hanrahan
  • Blood Relatives by Craig Francis Power
Subjects: Atlantic Canada

Sense and Sensitivity (p. 124-25)
by Suzanne James

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Green Man by Michael Bedard
  • Picture me Gone by Meg Rosoff
Subjects: Poetry, Young Adult

Seriously Playful / Playfully Serious (p. )
by Eric Schmaltz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lip by Franco Cortese
  • The Nerves Centre by Angela Szczepaniak
  • Word Problems by Ian Williams
Subjects:

Seriously Taken (p. 141-143)
by Kathryn Carter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Down the Road to Eternity by M.A.C. Farrant
  • The English Stories by Cynthia Flood
  • Loose Pearls by D.C. Troicuk
  • Welcome to Canada by David Carpenter
Subjects: Short Fiction

Setting Down Roots (p. )
by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Going to Ground: Essays on Aging, Chronic Pain and the Healing Power of Nature by Luanne Armstrong
  • Queasy: A Wannabe Writer's Bumpy Journey Through England in the 70's by Madeline Sonik
Subjects:

Shadow Play (p. 135-37)
by Coral Ann Howells

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Theory Aside by Daniel Stout and Jason Potts
  • The Permanent Nature of Everything: A Memoir by Judith Cowan
  • Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention by Cynthia Sugars
Subjects: Essays, Home & Family, Memory & Identity

Shadow Sides (p. 157-59)
by Kit Dobson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Martin John by Anakana Shofield
  • Sleep by Nino Ricci
Subjects: Contemporary, Fiction, Home & Family

Shaping Days by Writing (p. 263-265)
by Susie DeCoste

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing by Anne Giardini and Nicholas GIardini
  • As Always: Memoir of a Life in Writing by Madeleine Gagnon and Phyllis Aronoff
Subjects: Autobiography, Biography

Shave the Milk Mustache (p. 146-48)
by Crystal Hurdle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Matter of Life and Death or Something by Ben Stephenson
  • A Tinfoil Sky by Cyndi Sand-Eveland
  • One in Every Crowd: Stories by Ivan E. Coyote
Subjects: Autobiography, British Columbia, Childhood, Children's Literature, Gay/Lesbian, Gender, Landscape/Space, Novel, Working Class

Shifting Cadences (p. 154-55)
by Ranbir K. Banwait

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everything Was Good-bye by Gurjinder Basran
  • language is not the only thing that breaks by Proma Tagore
  • White Album by Rishma Dunlop and Suzanne Northcott
  • Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems by Rishma Dunlop
Subjects: Asian Canadian, Canadian Studies, Diaspora, Feminism, Gender, Globalization, Indian/South Asian, Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism, Women's Literature