Trout Tracks by Jim McLennan

“Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read flyfishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea.”

Queasy: A Wannabe Writer’s Bumpy Journey Through England in the ‘70s by Madeline Sonik

Queasy is a set of essays, in chronological order, looking at different parts of Madeline Sonik’s teenage experience in England, the directionless wandering through life she’s engaged in, and her desire to be a writer, despite the fact that she dropped out of high school in Canada and knows she needs to do something to get more education.

Translating (M)otherhoods: A Review of Jaspreet Singh’s My Mother, My Translator,* and (M)othering,** edited by Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan.

Jaspreet Singh’s My Mother, My Translator and (M)othering, a 57-authors anthology curated by Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan showed up on the same day in my mailbox, much like long-lost friends popping over for tea. The message from the universe was clear, I was to discuss them simultaneously.