Spring of 2020 was a strange and frightening time for everyone. For the Jasken family, the uncertainty of the early days of the pandemic were exacerbated…

What a surprise. It’s poetic, actually. During my Saskatoon years, each time I’d launch a book, an affable but unassuming woman I knew only by sight…

It was the gorgeous cover that captivated me first, but the gnomes quickly drew me into their magical world.

I’m considering what I enjoyed most about award-winning Regina writer, grassland conservationist, and naturalist Trevor Herriot’s first foray into fiction.

The Emir's Falcon is a fascinating story from page one to its gratifying conclusion. It centres around Skyrider, a peregrine falcon that university student Bernie…

Prince Albert, SK-raised Darryl Sexmith is an avid canoe-tripper and former United Church minister who’s built his community­—wherever he’s lived…

I truly feel that someone who hasn’t been touched by depression wouldn’t have been able to write this book with as much heart as John Melnick.

The front and back cover images on Saskatoon writer Barbara Kahan’s complex multi-generational novel, Elemental Eve, depict two magnificent, multi-coloured watercolour paintings…

In Who Gets In: An Immigration Story, Norman Ravvin traces the route of his grandfather, Yehuda Yoseph Eisenstein, from Poland, across Canada to Vancouver…

This beautifully-bound anthology of 21 essays written by paddlers and edited by educators—and intrepid canoeists and guides—Bob Henderson (ON) and Sean Blenkinsop (BC)…

Holy cannoli - what did I just finish devouring?!! This amazing fiction read will be on my Top Three Books of 2023 list.

Wounded Hearts Take A Chance is an attractive book with a positive message: women can recover from intense heartbreak and love again.

I love books that started out as a passion project as the author's enthusiasm shows through in the words. That is clearly the case with Neighbours Helping Neighbours.

I somehow missed Backwater Mystic Blues—the contemplative collection of essays by Saskatoon’s Lloyd Ratzlaff—when it was first published in 2006.

Fantasy books are so hit and miss for me. I either love or hate the world that the author created and I am thrust into. In the case of Daughter of Earth, I love where author Haensel’s creativity took her.

I’ve always loved a good ghost story, and Saskatchewan writer Martine Noël-Maw gives us ghost stories inside a ghost story in her YA novel The Ghosts of Spiritwood.

We all know you should never judge a book by its cover, but I made that mistake initially with Saskatchewan Dirt.

Sometimes a book is so phenomenal it goes into multiple printings, either with the original publisher or with a fresh publisher.

When I review a book, I allot myself two weeks to read it. That way I don’t feel pressure when life throws curve balls my way, like it inevitably does to all of us.

They say it’s about the journey, not the reward. In the literary world, the reward might be considered the publication of a book.