Welcome to ORB's May Issue
It is a rainy spring in Canada, but a great time to curl up with a good book. This month, our core ORB reviewers are offering you our...
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
Reviewed by Dessa Bayrock The Lonely Hearts Hotel is quintessential Heather O’Neill. It’s wonderful and crazy and saucy and wholesome....
Tour de Mort by Kay Stewart and Chris Bullock
Reviewed by Jim Napier On Vancouver Island preparations are underway for a charity bike ride known as the Tour de Rock. Taking place over...
A Free Man by Michel Basilières
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Satire, science fiction, dystopia—there are healthy doses of all of this in Michel Basilières' A Free Man....
Welcome to ORB's Easter's Issue
Things are warming up in Canada, and about time too. This month our core reviewers take a look at an eclectic selection of books for your...
Nostalgia by M.J. Vassanji
Reviewed by Dessa Bayrock The premise of this unsettling dystopian novel is simple: immortality is, at long last, in reach. And it comes...
Three Years with the Rat by Jay Hosking
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Three Years with the Rat is the type of book that I would normally pass on after stumbling on its implausible...
The Evil That Men Do by Michael Blair
Reviewed by Jim Napier Atticus Caulfield Riley (his mother was an English teacher), known simply as Riley, has spent the past two decades...