book review
Meghan Parker’s comic book thesis is informative and adorable
July 1, 2018Written by: Natasha Tar Meghan Parker, an SFU grad student, did something really cool when she created her thesis Art Teacher in Process: An Illustrated Exploration of Art, Education, and What Matters. She realized that writing about art wouldn’t work as well as making art about art, and so she made her thesis into a comic book. The comic follows Parker as herself, a high school art teacher who contemplates how she teaches and what she can learn from her students. The best part is, despite it being a thesis, it’s pretty fun to read! The art style…
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Cheesy to gritty: the turning point for Batman’s character
June 19, 2018By: Saif Nayani In February 1986, DC Comics began publishing Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue comic mini-series by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley. By the 1980s, people were used to seeing Batman as a source of…
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Introducing a hiker’s best friend
June 11, 2018By: Natasha Tar I’m going to be honest: I know absolutely nothing about hiking and I haven’t been hiking in years. Picking up the thick paperback that is SFU alum Stephen Hui’s 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia…
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Hungry poems for sobering histories
May 30, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren Though the premise of a poetry collection on Ukrainian-Canadian women sounds straightforward, Laisha Rosnau taps into a long, ugly, and complicated history that includes concentration camps, global waves of immigration, westward expansion, government abuse, urbanization, shifting conservatism,…
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Identities: A Short Story Collection is an illustrative and powerful read
May 21, 2018By: Ruramai Munyanyi An adjunct professor in SFU’s Beedie School of Business, Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, sets her foot into the fiction arena and holds her own with some of the best fiction I have ever read. Identities: A Short Story Collection is…
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: a book to experience
May 8, 2018By: Maxwell Gawlick You pick up a new novel, but the pages are out of order. You pick up a new copy, containing only the first chapter, but that chapter makes you desperate for the next. You search for the…
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The House of the Spirits shows Chilean history through the lens of magic realism
January 23, 2018By: Annie Bhuiyan The House of the Spirits is the first novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende (published in 1982). Allende delivers a text rich in reflections and retellings of the political atmosphere of Chile in the mid-20th century, told…
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Medicine Walk is a well-crafted story that examines the nuances of family
November 15, 2017By: Jennifer Russell Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk is almost guaranteed to be one of the best modern novels you’ll ever read (and that’s coming from an English major). One of the main reasons this book is such a success is that…
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The God of Small Things is in a World of its Own
October 27, 2017By: Gabrielle McLaren, Staff Writer A friend gave me his favourite book before I left for a flight, we agreed that it would make a great read for a plane ride. I called him when I landed and told him that…
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Book of the Week: You Can’t Touch My Hair is a funny and compelling read
September 21, 2017By: Grace Rose At its heart, You Can’t Touch My Hair (fully titled You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have To Explain) is a collection of personal essays and reflections that tells the story of a…
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