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Megan wants to leave her home in Canada, where she is responsible for taking care of her many siblings and her parents. She‘s young and London is calling.
This books follows her in her new life, as well as her brother and father. Nothing much happens but it all feels very true and Mary Lawson is a gifted writer.

TrishB Lovely pic too ♥️ 1d

Tamra ❤️ Lawson 24h

JuniperWilde I was just thinking about this book tonight. It‘s on my list and I‘ll pick it up as my next read. 🇨🇦❤️ 16h

Cathythoughts Lovely review ❤️ I remember loving A Town Called Solace. I must get back to her. 14h

BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts I loved that one too! 10h

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merelybookish

Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay

I'm at odds about this book. On one hand it is gently interweaving multiple story threads with patience and care.
On the other hand it includes lines like this:
"His penis was more narrow than wide, more O Henry bar than chocolate slab, more spring rhubarb than autumn gourd, more canoe than motorboat." ?????
Which might be one of THE worst sentences I've ever read in a novel.
So...a real toss-up right now. ?

Aims42 😳😖😳😖😳😖 2d

Soubhiville Well that‘s bizarre. 2d

kspenmoll What?!😳 2d

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Leftcoastzen 😵 2d

willaful *boggle* 2d

Ruthiella 🤮🙄😳 2d

Hooked_on_books 😂 2d

BarbaraBB 🤣🤣 love the accompanying photo 🤣🤣 2d

Cathythoughts Yuck 🤮 I‘m staying away from this one. 2d

CSeydel Whoa, that‘s a sentence I can‘t unread 2d

Susanita That‘s pretty bad 🤣🤣 2d

Anna40 Why oh why? 1d

OrangeMooseReads That line gives me the ick lol 1d

youneverarrived 🙈😂😂 1d

sarahbarnes That is…so bad. 😆😆😆 1d

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Thanks for sharing that sentence 🤣 I think I‘d take it as my sign to DNF 1d

merelybookish @aims42 @soubhiville @kspenmoll @leftcoastzen @willaful @ruthiella @hooked_on_books Definitely a sentence that inspires a lot of emojis! And disgust. 😂 1d

merelybookish @barbarabb seemed better than an Oh Henry bar. 😆 1d

merelybookish @cathythoughts A wise decision! 1d

merelybookish @CSeydel Oh, it's bad! Perhaps I should have provided a trigger warning. 1d

merelybookish @susanita @anna40 @youneverarrived @sarahbarnes It's like one of those comparisons would have been more than enough to gross me out... but three???? 1d

merelybookish @thegirlwiththelibrarybag Yeah, this is the dilemma. I'm more than halfway and I'm slightly interested in the storyline. So not sure I'm ready to DNF just yet. (Instead it will probably become a hate read.) 1d

TheLudicReader Dear Lord, I have no memory of that. 🤮 1d

quietlycuriouskate Oh dear God.... and I still haven't forgotten the penis/seahorse image in The English Patient! 1d

merelybookish @TheLudicReader This is one of the downsides of audiobooks. Harder to ignore or not hear terrible prose. 1d

merelybookish @quietlycuriouskate Oh God, I wonder if it's a Canadian thing. 😒 1d

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merelybookish

That Scatterbrain Booky | Bernice Thurman Hunter

My bookspin for March, a Canadian #Canlit children's classic from the 1980s. Hope to start later today!

ShelleyBooksie I adored this series as a child. Was my #1 scholastic bookfair choice. ♡ 3d

TheLudicReader Never heard of it! 😂 3d

merelybookish @ShelleyBooksie You're the second person whose told me that! 3d

merelybookish @TheLudicReader Maybe "classic" is a bit strong! But some people do remember it with fondness! 3d

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JillR

Held: A Novel | Anne Michaels

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A very Booker Prize-ish book - it was a bit tricky. This is a series of stories spanning 1908 to 2025 covering love, both romantic and between parent and child, loss, war and science. What I struggled with was the telling, individual stories moving back and forth in time, the narrative in each story also moving around from paragraph to paragraph. Lovely in parts, but it was harder work than I‘m willing to invest.

Cathythoughts Great review! I must try it. I hear you about the ‘ hard work ‘ 😁 4d

BarbaraBB Great review. I liked it. 3d

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Denison Avenue | Christina Wong

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A moving story told in visual art and fiction,following an elder Chinese Canadian living in Toronto‘s gentrifying Chinatown–Kensington Market neighbourhood,as she attempts to cope with the sudden death of her beloved husband. As well as giving a voice to an often unseen demographic,this touching novel also captures a side of the city and a neighbourhood that outsiders often don‘t get to experience: its compassion❤️

#ohcanada #canlit #iamcanadian

Amor4Libros This sounds wonderful, stacked! 😊 7d

TreenaReads @Amor4Libros 🙌🏽Yay! 7d

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Meet Me at the Lake | Carley Fortune

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Fern and Will spent a whole 24 hours together and planned to meet up a year later, but he never showed. 9 years later, he shows up to help her family‘s resort. Will she be able to forgive him for standing her up?

4.5⭐️ I enjoyed this one way more than her 1st book. There was a little more comedy & romance, but I wanted a bit more spice.

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merelybookish

Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay

Happy Caturday from my favourite napping pals!
Started this 2007 Giller Prize winner today (for #192025 natch). One of those works of Canlit that everyone seems to have read except for me. Decidedly mixed reviews on Litsy including a definitive pan of Hay's writing style by @Lindy 🤨🙂 whose opinion I respect. So we shall see...

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😽 🐾 1w

TheKidUpstairs I've actually never read this one, either! I've got it on my shelf, probably been sitting there since about 2007 😂 Someday, maybe, I'll get to it! 1w

Librarybelle A lovely Caturday! 1w

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Lindy I look forward to hearing what you think. I‘m a minority opinion on this. 1w

TheLudicReader I read this years ago and really liked it. 1w

merelybookish @TheKidUpstairs I'm not the only one!! 1w

merelybookish @Lindy I'm not far but am already feeling conflicted. On one hand annoyed at how main female character's sexiness keeps being described. On the other, was heartened by the inclusion of an Alden Nowlan porm. So we shall see! 1w

merelybookish @TheLudicReader Good to know! The women in my book club are also fans. 1w

merelybookish @Librarybelle @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love a Caturday! 😺 1w

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