#Bookspin for April
1. We Measure the Earth
2. Lesser known Monsters
3. Seeing Ghosts
4. River Sing
5. New Jim Crow
6. Dream States
7. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
8. How Much of these Hills
9. The Savage Detectives
10. Sleeping Car Porter
11. Fresh Banana Leaves
12. The Mountains Sing
13. A Small Place
14. Night Tiger
15. Rememberings
16. Nasty Brutish
17. What You Have Heard Is True
18. Of Women and Salt
19. Beekeeper of Aleppo
20. Pure Colour
bailedWell, I‘ve had this on my list for a long time, pulled it as a #Bookspin at least twice, but I just couldn‘t get into it. I feel bad, because the author is a queer Muslim Torontonian, whom I met many years ago in a book group, and I was really expecting to enjoy this. Maybe someday I‘ll try one of her others.
#Bookspin March
1. We Measure the Earth
2. Lesser known Monsters
3. Seeing Ghosts
4. River Sing
5. New Jim Crow
6. Dream States
7. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
8. How Much of these Hills
9. The Savage Detectives
10. The Sleeping Car Porter
11. Fresh Banana Leaves
12. The Mountains Sing
13. A Small Place
14. Night Tiger
15. Rememberings
16. Nasty Brutish
17. What You Have Heard Is True
18. Of Women and Salt
19. Beekeeper of Aleppo
20. Time War
This month's #Bookspin list:
1. What is the What
2. How Much of Hills
3. Under the Undala Trees
4. Seeing Ghosts
5. How Beautiful We Were
6. New Jim Crow
7. Soldier Boy
8. Wayward Lives
9. A Long Way Gone
10. Disruption
11. The Innocents
12. The Mountains Sing
13. The Prophets
14. Follow Those Zebras
15. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
16. H is for Hawk
17. We Wish to Inform You
18. The Underground Railroad
19. The Night Tiger
20. American Spy
My mini #bookhaul from the little Indigenous-owned #indie bookstore downtown. ‘Seven‘ came very highly recommended by the owner. I‘d never heard of it but figured I‘d give it a go.
‘Small Game Hunting‘ has been on my radar forever. He was giving away copies of ‘Spirit Bear‘ so I grabbed it for my nephew.
#canlit
#booksandbooze
pickThe moral urgency that underpins this novel makes it the most compelling of all of Farzana Doctor‘s novels. It‘s about FGM & its complex ramifications for contemporary women as well as an Islamic cultural community, the Dawoodi Bohra. Sharifa, Fatema & Zainab, cousins from three families, are equally interesting characters with differing views on the practice of khatna. A parallel 19th-c storyline adds layered texture. #Ownvoices 🇨🇦
Normally, the Syedna offers a male & a female name, but Alifiyah forwarded us the email that offered a single, unusable name for any child growing up in the West: Fakhruddin. Later, an ultrasound confirmed we were having a girl. “Who knows,” Murtuza had scoffed. “Maybe modern technology is wrong & the Big Guy is right. And it has a nice ring to it. Fahk-ru for short.”
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so-soSigh. I ran out and bought this one, so thinking it would be on the Giller longlist. Now....I'd be disappointed I suppose if it is on there.
I sadly found it tremendously tedious despite its interesting subject matter and at 402 pages much, much too long and drawn out. 😔 Another bummer read for the #ShadowGiller project.
@Lindy
But I did buy this one on Saturday and it would mean I could continue reading books for the #ShadowGiller so I will probably start reading this one first. 😊
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