Voting is open for the next #ohcanada buddy read.
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Voting is open for the next #ohcanada buddy read.
original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2904019
Thought it would be fun to go with a bit of a different genre for the next book.
1. Still Life - Book 1 of a well loved Canadian mystery series. Book 20 comes out this year so plenty more to read if you enjoy the series.
2. Pattern Recognition - Book 1 of a science fiction series. There are 3 books in this series.
Full disclosure - I mainly read fiction so I haven't read either of these - but would love to discover a new author with you all!
pickPastoral (Quincunx Cycle 1), by André Alexis (2014 ??)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Premise: A priest arrives in his first parish in a small Ontario town and is immediately put to the test by its residents and his own doubts.
Review: This is an old-fashioned kind of story, but effectively so. I was charmed by the townspeople and appreciated the light, yet serious, touch with which the more spiritual themes were handled.⬇️
pickIn the 1960s, writer Mowat decided to get a boat and pilot it from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Get a boat he did, but never made it that far, as he and the boat really had no business ever being on the water. Other than a bit too much of “isn‘t drinking heavily hilarious?!” (it‘s not), this is a funny, entertaining book about a temperamental boat and some of the inhabitants of maritime Canada.
pickLAST PUZZLE PIECE!! The author offers subtle clues to the mystery with descriptive feelings, conversations and reflections. Each leading to a dead end.
Often in this novel all clues lead to a dead end.
The path not taken, the picture not observed could be the “last puzzle piece”.
Solution will give you goosebumps.
There was silence before Myrna spoke again. “Fucking Ruth.“
It struck Gamache that maybe that was Ruth's real name. It was certainly her given name. He considered the christening.
“What do you name this child?“ the minister asked.
“Fucking Ruth,“ her godparents replied. It would have been a prescient choice.
And we're back! I suspect Penny saw all the “the monks are so boring, I want Twin Pines!“ comments and decided to give the people what they want. 😂 This is an action movie of a book, with tremendously high stakes, both personal and global. The Twin Pines characters provide a moral center and much needed comic relief. I'm not convinced the author wasn't messing with us, but it was a great pageturner and tearjerker of a read, so I don't care. 😂
WOW - thank you soooo much for this most amazing #FallingForFallSwap pacakge! You can't really see it but there is also a doormat under all these wonderful items!! I love, love, loved that you got one of your kiddos to pick out a book and can't wait to read it! I can't thank you enough for this wonderful #fffs package! You are too generous @DinoMom
@Avanders @Chrissyreadit
#weekendreads
Do Not Say - didn‘t finish last weekend, but got most of it done, so I‘m just going to read a few chapters over the weekend
Secret Keeper - hope to read a bunch more
Maya & Natasha - finished the book Saturday afternoon
Fellowship and Rust & Stardust - hope to start @ least 1 of them on Sunday
