Charlotte
Montgomery
"...the
usual sources of human evil--greed, ignorance and
plain, slothful indifference--provide the sorry
impetus for enough animal abuse horror stories to
make Blood Relations as
disheartening a reading experience as it is
revelatory. It nonetheless needs to be told, and
Montgomery is to be commended for having both the
crisp analytical skills and moral foresight to tell
it."
Ray Robertson
The Toronto Star
November 12, 2000
"A thorough, thoughtful, and very readable
account of both the history and the present state
of the animal rights movement(s)...the best thing
about Blood Relations is
Montgomery herself, whose sly humour and refreshing
uncertainty poke through the convention of
journalistic objectivity and make Blood
Relations more of a philosophical
memoir, a retelling of an intellectual and
emotional journey, than simply another piece of
radical tourism."
R.M. Vaughan
THIS Magazine
September/October 2000
"Of greatest value is Montgomery's publicizing of
events, people, motives and issues that have so
often been either ignored or misrepresented and
ridiculed. I strongly recommend
Blood Relations for its
contribution to a Canadian examination of the
issues it features."
Barry Kent MacKay
The Toronto Star
October 8, 2000
"Montgomery is an engaging writer who asks logical
questions about the issues, and then answers them
in a detailed, accessible manner...It is
refreshing to see a journalist bring a sense of
moral outrage to a book but still value subtlety
over sledgehammer. Clearly sympathetic to the
radical strand of the movement, Montgomery
nonetheless gives all sides a fair hearing, and
leaves us with provocative questions about the way
humans treat their fellow
creatures."
Matthew
Bahrens
Quill and Quire
September 2000
Miriam
Edelson
"Miriam
Edelson cuts through our natural distancing on this
subject by taking readers on a surprising voyage of
discovery. My Journey with
Jake deftly draws you into an intense,
private wrold of a couple's expectations, momentary
joy at their firstborn and devastation as they
realize their baby is not normal...This book
provides such powerful revelations of the raw
emotions of having a child with extraordinary needs
that it seductively draws you into the larger
political issues."
Ellie Tesher
The Toronto Star
April 11, 2000
"A remarkable story. On her journey, Edelson
travels roads, and achieves levels of awaresness,
depths of fear, anger, love, that many of us will
never know."
Jim Coyle
The Toronto Star
March 21, 2000
"With an unflinching honesty, Edelson recalls the
sorrow, bouts of near despair and the painful
divorce that followed Jake's diagnosis--as well as
her love and acceptance of her son. The book is
also a tough-minded account of the battles Edelson
has fought on behalf of Jake against the medical
establishment and government funding cuts."
Maclean's
Apri 17, 2000
Bob
Davis
"This
is a book which moves beyond postmodern irony and
skepticism, beyond the "current fashion of seeing
through everything and owing allegiance to
nothing." Bob Davis has issued a powerful clarion
call to resist "training people who are mentally
skilled but mindless." He is a lover of the big
questions and the absolute possibility of
meaningful human advancement. His book is a loving
commentary on Einstein's dictum that 'All means are
but a blunt instrument if they have not behind them
a living spirit.'"
Ted Schmidt
Canadian Dimension
September/October 2000
"In Skills Mania, Davis offers
every teacher the chance to examine one of the
informing principles of our system and to
reconsider the fundamental questions of the
profession."
Gayle Gibson
Education Forum
"[Davis] is a passionate and charismatic
teacher who can seamlessly imbed the teaching of
skills within the 'bursting framework of history,
humankind, animal kind and the earth; war and
peace; protest and self-knowledge; contemplation
and the design of blueprints for change.'"
Myra Novogrodsky
Our Schools/Our Selves
September 2000 Vol. 10, No. 1
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