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MysticFaerie
Hotline | Dimitri Nasrallah
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Pickpick

4.5⭐️/5⭐️

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TheKidUpstairs
The Future | Catherine Leroux
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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

My favourite NEVER wins #CanadaReads, and this year I REALLY didn't think it would (especially after the first two days of debates).

But it did!!! And I'm so excited!

The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou is this year's #CanadaReads winner 🏆🎉 I LOVED this book. It is beautifully crafted and demands time, thought, and attention. In return it offers beauty, magic, and hard fought hope. Highly recommended!

BarbaraBB That seals it. I‘m off to buying it! 2mo
TheKidUpstairs @BarbaraBB ❤️❤️❤️ I hope you find as much love in its pages as I did! 2mo
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TheKidUpstairs
The Future | Catherine Leroux
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Day One about to start! #CanadaReads

Tagged was my favourite, but Bad Cree and Denison Avenue area strong contenders!

BarbaraBB Exciting! I want to read the tagged book too! 2mo
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Purpleness
Meet Me at the Lake | Carley Fortune
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darklydreaming I loved this book!! Enjoy 😊 2mo
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melissajayne
Meet Me at the Lake | Carley Fortune
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3.5⭐️ Thought the book was ok. The book started out slow, but seemed to hit its stride about 1/3 of the way through. While I‘m not a huge #romance reader, I thought it hit the right spot after some heavy reading. #2024 #fiction #canadareads #canadian #contemporary #bookclub

https://bookshop.org/p/books/meet-me-at-the-lake-carley-fortune/18702555?ean=978...

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LaraS
Denison Avenue | Christina Wong
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I‘ve read 4 of the 5 #CanadaReads books so far, the only one left is a graphic novel. I know I can easily nab the e-book from my library‘s express on overdrive, but when it comes to graphic novels I just prefer the actual physical book, ya know? Sadly I think I have to face reality and accept that I‘m not going to get my hands on the physical one before March!

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TheKidUpstairs
Bad Cree: A Novel | Jessica Johns
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What an awesome group of women. This one has been billed as horror, but I found that the horror elements were secondary to an atmospheric story of a family of women dealing with grief, love, trauma, and finding their way back to each other. There is so much love in this book and this family, the relationships are beautiful and heart felt.

Cont'd, and #CanadaReads thoughts in the comments

TheKidUpstairs There are definitely elements of horror, but I found it more eerie and unsettling rather than scare your pants off (which is a good thing, in my books!). The climax is great reading, but I was able to read it in the dark without chickening out 🤣. I'm excited to see what Johns writes next! 3mo
TheKidUpstairs #CanadaReads - there's a strong argument here for the theme of "one book to carry us forward", but anything genre fiction-ish always has an uphill battle and we'll see how well it's defended. There are some strong contenders this year! 3mo
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SarahBookInterrupted
The Break | Katherena Vermette
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Check out an award winning book recommendation by Kim on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday here: https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-the-break

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TheKidUpstairs
Meet Me at the Lake | Carley Fortune
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I read it in a day.

A heartfelt missed connection romance, set in two of my favourite places: Toronto and cottage country. I liked Fern and Will, and I liked that Fortune played with the genre's tropes without falling into its traps. It was an enjoyable read, with depth and heart that keep it from being too fluffy.

Thoughts on #CanadaReads in the comments...

TheKidUpstairs
With regards to #CanadaReads - I do see an argument here to the theme of “one book to carry us forward“, it does deal with ideas that can fit - especially the idea of balancing responsibilities to yourself with responsibilities to family and community and does so in an accessible way. But I think it's going to be an uphill battle, and all will come down to how it is defended.
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Blueberry
Meet Me at the Lake | Carley Fortune
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4 ⭐
My first of #CanadaReads2024. I'm surprised at this inclusion in #CanadaReads, being a romance with no political or cultural agenda. But nonetheless it was hard to put down.