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I went to the library to pick up one hold, and three more books jumped into my arms. At least I wasn't visiting the animal shelter.

Not nearly as wonderful as Johnston‘s fiction. This was a bit of a slog honestly, and I don‘t have high hopes for it on #CanadaReads. I think it‘ll be voted off first or second.

I felt fascinated but confused the 1st time I read this. I had sympathy for narrator, but some serious doubts. I reread it to try to get some clarity, but found it equally opaque. Now i see a path of evil intent by our narrator. But i couldn‘t pin her down. She‘s hiding herself. In interviews the author says she wants readers to finish the book with questions, not answers. I have more questions upon rereading. The book is brilliant, by the way.

#Wardens2025 #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025 #Roll100

Another new to me series started. Although I wasn‘t really surprised by anything, I still enjoyed it. There are more secrets to be found in Promise Falls & I look forward to reading all about them🤓🤭

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.

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. ?

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

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.

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