BOOK REVIEWS
For the Alberta Jewish News:
Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from A Life Well Worn by Jeanne Beker

For The Calgary Herald:
Interviews with Arthur Golden of Memoirs of a Geisha & George Jonas of Vengeance: book to movie adaptation
The Coma by Alex Garland
The Pleasure of My Own Company by Steve Martin
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland

The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
26a by Diana Evans
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
George & Rue by George Eliiott Clarke
The Holding by Merilyn Simonds

Exile by Ann Ireland
Venous Hum by Suzette Mayr
Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa by Marcello di Cintio
Mercy by Alissa York
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Double by Jose Saramago
All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve
Fluke by Christopher Moore
joothan: A Dalit's Life by Omprakash Valmiki
Infiltration by Yehoshua Kenaz
A Perfect Pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj
Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander
A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel

Look for Me by Edeet Ravel
Origin of Haloes by Kristen den Hartog
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
The Singing Fire by Lilian Nattel
Journey to the End of the Whale by John David Morley
For the Calgary Straight:
Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis
Mars and Venus in the Workplace by John Gray
Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul by Jack Canfield
Whispers and Lies by Joy Fielding
Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan by Sally Armstrong
Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa by Marcello di Cintio

Old Potatoes by Carolyn Fisher
Never Hitchhike on the Road Less Travelled by Thomas William
The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice by Uma Parameswaran
What Was Always Hers by Uma Parameswaran
The Last Six Minutes of Elvis by Kirk Miles