Book Review: And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

Book Review: And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

Having never read her first, bestselling book A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, I was excited to pick up Alicia Elliott’s new book, a work of fiction titled And Then She Fell, because I felt like I was missing out on a very new and cool writer if I didn’t....
Book Review: A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

Book Review: A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

I had read mixed reviews of A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter. Many heralded it as a must-read for Canadians, a compliment often used for books about Indigenous people. But some complained it was difficult to follow because of the alternating...
Book Review: Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Book Review: Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

I’ve got some promising horror books on my shelf at the moment, so I thought I’d clear some of them away before spooky season in the Fall brings even more my way. Bad Cree by Jessica Johns was a big spring book here in Canada; everyone was talking about...
Book Review: Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah

Book Review: Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah

Here in Canada we are lucky to have a rich publishing landscape of Indigenous voices, and the numbers are only increasing. In fact, many books on the current and previous bestseller lists are Indigenous writers. I don’t see the same representation in American...
Book Review: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Book Review: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

I had seen brief reviews and mentions of The Sentence by Louise Erdrich around, but never received it from the publisher for review, so accepted the fact I wasn’t likely to read it. But then I read a great review of it by Consumed by Ink which outlined that it...