Ten below and record snowfalls make for good reading. This month, The Ottawa Review of Books' core team and guest reviewer Lisa Pike share their insights on recent works of of fiction by Lynda A. Archer, Anita Rau Badami, Robert Landori and Pamela Mordechai. Our beloved columnist John Last shares with us his lyrical reminiscence of the Vinyl Café stories of humourist Stuart McLean. And Ottawa poet Marilyn Irwin joins our team with a review of Box Kite by Kim Maltman and Roo Borson.