Sandra Williams

Contributing Writer
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Sandra's a book addict and writer from Ontario, Canada. Her interests include cooking, health and personal development, so many of her reviews will reflect that.

Fiction favourites include thrillers and mysteries, but she's open to all genres. Her articles have been featured in textbooks, magazines and newsletters.

The article 10 Community Conservation Ideas was published in Women Worldwide: transitional feminist perspectives on women by Janet Lee and Susan M. Shaw (McGraw Hill, 2009).

More recently she has focused on Canadian fiction at Suite101. She's received an editor's choice award for each of the following articles:

When she's not writing, she's blasting music, cooking, crafting or camping. You can also find her having fun as the candle making editor at Craft Gossip.

Latest Articles

The Solution by Lucinda Bassett
Lucinda Bassett shares enough of her personal story to inspire others, showing by example how she and others overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Feb 27, 2011 - Sandra Williams
No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod
No Great Mischief is Alistair MacLeod's first novel. It won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
Nov 16, 2010 - Sandra Williams
Summary of Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Dunstan Ramsay played a minor role in Fifth Business by Robertson Davies that caused major consequences.
Nov 2, 2010 - Sandra Williams
Review of Timothy Findley's Spadework
Timothy Findley described Spadework as a southern Ontario Gothic novel, although he didn't like to be pigeonholed.
Oct 17, 2010 - Sandra Williams
Review of You comma Idiot by Doug Harris
You comma Idiot is a hilarious and entertaining Canadian novel with a well written plot that maintains the murder mystery.
Sep 21, 2010 - Sandra Williams
Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies
Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies is the first of a series called The Salterton Trilogy that takes place in the fictional Ontario town called Salterton.
Sep 10, 2010 - Sandra Williams
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
In the Skin of a Lion is a historical fiction that was nominated for the 1987 Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction.
Sep 1, 2010 - Sandra Williams
The Telling Of Lies: A Mystery by Timothy Findley
Lurking around corners and spying on friends, Vanessa put the murder mystery together. She became alarmed after discovering stolen photos and a body on ice.
Aug 23, 2010 - Sandra Williams
Headhunter by Timothy Findley
Lilah Kemp, a spiritualist and schizophrenic from Toronto, let an evil psychiatrist named Kurtz loose after reading Heart of Darkness.
Jul 18, 2010 - Sandra Williams
As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
As For Me and My House wasn't popular when published in 1941, but interest grew after it was republished in 1957. Now, it's considered a Canadian classic.
Jul 8, 2010 - Sandra Williams