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melissajayne
The Sky Is Falling | Kit Pearson
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5⭐️ I love this book. This has been a comfort read for me for over 30 years and was an introduction to the world of #historicalfiction. #2025 #canadianfiction #warguests

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merelybookish
Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay
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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 😳😖😳😖😳😖 4w
Soubhiville Well that‘s bizarre. 4w
kspenmoll What?!😳 4w
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Leftcoastzen 😵 4w
willaful *boggle* 4w
Ruthiella 🤮🙄😳 4w
BarbaraBB 🤣🤣 love the accompanying photo 🤣🤣 4w
Cathythoughts Yuck 🤮 I‘m staying away from this one. 4w
CSeydel Whoa, that‘s a sentence I can‘t unread 4w
Susanita That‘s pretty bad 🤣🤣 4w
Anna40 Why oh why? 4w
OrangeMooseReads That line gives me the ick lol 4w
youneverarrived 🙈😂😂 4w
sarahbarnes That is…so bad. 😆😆😆 4w
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Thanks for sharing that sentence 🤣 I think I‘d take it as my sign to DNF 4w
merelybookish @aims42 @soubhiville @kspenmoll @leftcoastzen @willaful @ruthiella @hooked_on_books Definitely a sentence that inspires a lot of emojis! And disgust. 😂 4w
merelybookish @barbarabb seemed better than an Oh Henry bar. 😆 4w
merelybookish @cathythoughts A wise decision! 4w
merelybookish @CSeydel Oh, it's bad! Perhaps I should have provided a trigger warning. 4w
merelybookish @susanita @anna40 @youneverarrived @sarahbarnes It's like one of those comparisons would have been more than enough to gross me out... but three???? 4w
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.) 4w
TheLudicReader Dear Lord, I have no memory of that. 🤮 4w
quietlycuriouskate Oh dear God.... and I still haven't forgotten the penis/seahorse image in The English Patient! 4w
merelybookish @TheLudicReader This is one of the downsides of audiobooks. Harder to ignore or not hear terrible prose. 4w
merelybookish @quietlycuriouskate Oh God, I wonder if it's a Canadian thing. 😒 4w
Reggie Lololololololololol 3w
merelybookish @Reggie exactly!!! 😂 3w
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merelybookish
Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay
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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...

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! 1mo
Librarybelle A lovely Caturday! 1mo
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Lindy I look forward to hearing what you think. I‘m a minority opinion on this. 1mo
TheLudicReader I read this years ago and really liked it. 1mo
merelybookish @TheKidUpstairs I'm not the only one!! 1mo
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! 1mo
merelybookish @TheLudicReader Good to know! The women in my book club are also fans. 1mo
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Moss_Croft
As for Me and My House | Sinclair Ross
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kwmg40
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Pickpick

Two Metis cousins steal a herd of bison to release in an urban area, as an act of environmental activism. A good story, with plenty of humour and some suspense, that looks at the complexities of Indigenous issues.

I'm glad I found a book for the #52bookclub25 “includes a heist“ prompt, though I hadn't expected it would involve bison!

#gottacatchemall (Psyduck: someone loses control ) @PuddleJumper

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Creadnorthey
The Sentimentalists: A Novel | Johanna Skibsrud
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Definitely deep in the poetic stream. This does not always lend itself to the full story as I might have chosen to structure this differently- reserving the imagistic for the Vietnam segment so beautifully juxtaposed with the father‘s decline. Ultimately this is a beautiful story of love, family bonds, and events that shape us.

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Magdalenka
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Teresereading
A New Season | Terry Fallis
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“Now that‘s using your face, Jack Mac,” a spectator shouted as the buzzer sounded to end my weekly ball hockey game.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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PurpleyPumpkin
The Bittlemores | Jann Arden
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Written by one of Canada‘s musical icons, I‘m very much looking forward to reading this “rural fairy tale, coming-of-age story.”
#AboutABook #Published2023 #MyNeverendingTBR

Eggs Pretty photograph🩵🤍 8mo
PurpleyPumpkin @Eggs 🥰🙏🩵🤍 (edited) 8mo
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merelybookish
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Taking #landback protests to a new level, two Metis youth move a herd of bison into a downtown Edmonton park. Activist Grey is determined to make a real difference while Ezzy, whose been in & out of institutions, his whole life, just wants to support Grey. Their plan works, sort of. But if course there are no easy fixes to colonialism or its impact on generations. Helping the bison doesn't save Grey or Ezzy from having to find their own path.

merelybookish Lots to like about this novel AND I found it took me a long time to read. The novel flips back and forth between their perspectives. I preferred Ezzy's as the writing of Grey's character didn't work as well for me. 10mo
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