Archive for the ‘Canada’ Category

CHANGING HEAVEN by Jane Urquhart

A brilliant riff on Emily Brontë’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS, this highly original novel is as bracing and wild as the weather itself, impossible to pin down, virtually plotless, yet sweeping all before it. Just as one speaks of a novel of ideas, this is a novel of emotions — emotions in their purest form, taking possession like a natural force, and largely divorced from the normal ties of cause and effect. This is not a book for those who demand realism and logic rather than a novel organized by poetic association and contrast. But for those who approach it as the unique vision of a poet who just happens to be writing in prose — wondrous prose — it is something very special indeed.

October 4, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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UNDER THIS UNBROKEN SKY by Shandi Mitchell

UNDER THE UNBROKEN SKY is the story of two related families living on the prairie of Western Canada in the 1930s. They are part of the diaspora of the Ukrainian agrarian settlement to that region that began in the late 1800s and continued through the First World War.

September 11, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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206 BONES by Kathy Reichs

206 BONES, by Kathy Reichs, opens with Tempe Brennan, handcuffed and buried in some sort of underground crypt. She does not remember how she got there, but is understandably terrified. The author then traces the complicated series of events that led up to Tempe’s abduction and entombment.

August 25, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
Posted in: Canada, Sleuths Series