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Intro

A special guest

Weekly Highlights

The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Lara Vergnaud (Translator)

Pearl by Siân Hughes

Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras

The Perfection of the Morning: A Woman's Awaking in Nature by Sharon Butala

Indians on Vacation: A Novel by Thomas King

After Julius by Elizabeth Jane Howard

In 19 days, we are packing up all our worldly possessions and moving back to our home province in Canada. (We've lived in the US for 22 years.). Needless to say, we have a few items on the to-do list.
At the top was cashing in my credit at the used bookstore. 😆 So here's my final US #bookhaul. (And yes, I know I added more books to move, but at this point, what's 5 more? 🙂)

It is geology stripped bare, leaving behind only a vast sky and land stretched out in long, sweeping lines that blend into the distant horizon with a line that is sometimes so clear and sharp it is surreal, and sometimes exists at the edge of metaphysics, oscillating in heat waves or, summer or winter, blending into mirages and the realm of dreams and visions which wavers just the other side of the horizon.

...is precisely how I felt after moving to a small town with a infant, knowing no one and suddenly living a very different life than I had ever known or anticipated.

The only thrift store within an hour's drive is closing out 😕 The books were very picked over but these looked promising. I had no idea about the sequel to Blindness.

Another of my mom's favorite writers. She's disappointed that Butala seems to have retired from writing since her husband died nearly a decade ago. They lived for years at Eastend, Saskatchewan which is where my mom's mom was born and raised.