From the Globe and Mail:
What a wordsmith! What a work of depth and breadth! What a world newcomer Cathy Marie Buchanan brings to propulsively glittering and gorgeous life in The Day the Falls Stood Still.
Few first novels exhibit the mastery, maturity and majesty of Buchanan’s riveting fictional debut, a heart-wrenching, soul-racking, spell-binding tale interwoven with [...]
I’m not sure who runs this blog, but if you are interested in finding out about various books about Niagara Falls, then you might want to check it out. It doesn’t have any sort of personal touch, but it currently contains information about 10 different books.
It is possible the site is just an automated “bot” [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart just released this year a novel set primarily in Niagara Falls. The title is “Falling” by Anne Simpson. Simpson’s book “Loop” was the winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry…
Many Niagara Falls neighbourhoods and buildings are described [...]
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Niagara Daredevils: Thrills and Spills over Niagara Falls
by Cheryl MacDonald
$7.95 US, $9.95 CDN
115 pages
Altitude Publishing
It is surprising the number of books out there that are about Niagara Falls (I have another posting where I will list a bunch of them). One that I received for review was Niagara Daredevils: Thrills and Spills over Niagara Falls [...]
From the Toronto Star:
On Sept. 8, 1827, a crowd estimated at more than 10,000 crammed both sides of Niagara Falls to see a hot new tourist attraction.
A baffed-out old schooner called The Michigan was being sent over the cataract with a cargo of live animals, advertised as ferocious panthers, wildcats and wolves. Actually, the ferocious [...]
From Bloomberg.com:
Ginger Strand is in possession of a sharp eye, a biting wit, a beguiling sense of fun — and a magnificent obsession. As some people collect little porcelain dogs or sports memorabilia, Ginger Strand collects visits to Niagara Falls.
But not only visits. She collects postcards. Myths. Legends about daredevil feats. Stories about disasters. Bits [...]
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From the New York Times:
The scenic attributes of Niagara Falls are well known, but if the pilot points them out to you in a plane at 30,000 feet, the falls can look more problematic than sublime, as if there’s a leak in the Great Lakes — it makes you want to call someone. On the [...]
From the Washington Post:
“This book documents an obsession,” writes Ginger Strand in her entertaining study of the exploitation of Niagara Falls, both town and waterfall. Niagara’s history, she claims, is fraught with “falsification, prevarication and omission.” In Inventing Niagara, she sets out on a quest to cut through the cultural accretions of centuries and find [...]
From the Worcester Telegram & Gazette News:
When Ginger Strand first heard the roar that fills the air around Niagara Falls she was hooked.
She was surprised by her reaction to the thundering rush of water. She was, after all, a college student who had come to the Falls with her boyfriend to smirk at the tacky [...]
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