Litsy

Confession: I‘m only just now starting Magic for Marigold 🙃 How‘s everyone else‘s reading coming along?! #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

rubyslippersreads, kwmg40, TheAromaofBooks, julieclair

charl08 Beautiful rose! 20h

kwmg40 I haven't managed to start this one yet, but I hope to do so soon! 20h

AnnCrystal 🤩📚🌹📚💝. 18h

TheAromaofBooks I am planning to read it this week. I'm still trying to get into the 2026 groove 😂 6h

rubyslippersreads I feel better now; I haven‘t started either. 😁 2h

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vivastory

Bear | Marian Engel

I'm sorry, sometimes I can't resist a good pun. My review for the tagged?
Ice Planet Bar-Bearian
(In all seriousness, an unconventional novel about a bibliographer who forms a close relationship with a bear at an estate she is tasked with itemizing for her employer. “Unhinged women“ seem to be all of the rage right now & this one is a bit of an outlier. This is a love it/hate it. I found some of the reveals of the MC at the end made me (CONT,)

vivastory reevaluate what I thought that I knew about her earlier. I entirely disagree with any reviews that might label this as “erotic“ or “salacious“. Definitely uncomfortable at times,a short read, or listen (4 hours on audio) but I do think Engel a Canadian writer helped pave the way for works like the boldness of the subject matter in Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy. 2d

vivastory -I listened to this one but I just noticed the Atwood blurb, so definitely feel justified lololol 2d

Ruthiella I love à good unhinged women novel. Plus, @merelybookish gave it a thumbs up too. ? 2d

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vivastory @Ruthiella She did!I don't know if you listen to the One Bright Books Podcast, but it's one of the co-host favorite books and I know he's made a few coverts over the years, including the lovely co-hosts of Mookse and the Gripse 2d

Ruthiella @vivastory Yes! I listen to that podcast as well! Three recommendations now. So I really need to try it. Maybe I can ask @Jess861 if we can work it in for #OhCanada . (edited) 2d

Jess861 @Ruthiella I'm always excited to get recommendations for OhCanada! I've already set the next reads vote by someone who posted on authors/topics they are interested in - but nothing set in stone after that. I'll be happy to have this as the book we read for the May/June read 😊! 2d

Ruthiella @Jess861 Awesome! 🤩 2d

LeahBergen I bought an old edition of this ages ago but just haven‘t nerved myself to read it somehow. 😆 2d

merelybookish I'm so glad you enjoyed it! And agree that the idea that is erotic is inaccurate! 5h

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood

bailed

Bailing at 41%
I hated this and it isn't interesting enough to hate read. I have been avoiding even listening to this for 2 days. Every woman in this novel is the whiniest privileged woman and it is boring. We are spending all of our time with Toni a war obsessed professor who took Zenia's bf in college and who lives in fear Z will come back and take him back? He is not even a great guy? There are so many moments I swore out loud in disgust

SamAnne Hmmm….maybe I unstack this. Doesn‘t sound like my cup of tea. 3d

ChaoticMissAdventures @SamAnne it gets high reviews from others. But I can tell you the moment I knew I was done was when the MC was saying she wanted babies but her husband never brought it up so she has pushed the feeling aside..... Even as a child free person this was a big yikes. 3d

dabbe #hailthebail 🙌🏻 #betterbooksahead 3d

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BarbaraBB On to the next Atwood 😉 3d

ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB yes! I have her new memoir which I hear good stuff about! 3d

BookishMarginalia Onwards! 3d

rebcamuse I took an Atwood seminar in college and it‘s funny—I only really loved Handmaid‘s Tale but I had some recollection of enjoying this one, but I couldn‘t tell you anything about it. I did not like Edible Woman or Bodily Harm, likely because they both seemed to have the many of the same theme. Reading pretty much her entire oeuvre at that point in one semester was… a lot. 3d

PatriciaU Atwood is an author everyone loves and I have never “gotten.” I‘ve heard her speak in person and she was spectacular, but I just can‘t read her books. 2d

ChaoticMissAdventures @rebcamuse this would have been a fascinating class! I would like to take that now, especially through a modern lenses when her older things were both regressive (this one) and so forward thinking like HT. 2d

ChaoticMissAdventures @PatriciaU she is amazing in person (I also like to watch her fight with people online lol) I have decided I don't like her contemporary books, but I did really enjoy HT and her oryx and crake series when I read it many many moons ago. 2d

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Bookwormjillk

Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay

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The slow pace of this book made it hard to follow on audiobook, but I loved loved loved the setting in a radio station in small town NW Territories.

BarbaraBB Sounds like a book for you @TheKidUpstairs 💕 4d

TheKidUpstairs @BarbaraBB I've had this on my shelf forever! It won the Giller years ago, and for some reason I've just never gotten around to opening it. But i LOVE Hay's most recent book, so maybe I should prioritize this one, soon.

Snow Road Station: A Novel

JuniperWilde I absolutely loved this book. I read it as a physical book. It‘s a treasure 🇨🇦 3d

Bookwormjillk @JuniperWilde I need to re-read it as a physical book 3d

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vivastory

Bear | Marian Engel

Bailed on Patel's I'm A Fan earlier. The sporadic brilliant insights unfortunately couldn't save it (never a good sign when nodding off repeatedly while listening). Up next one championed by @merelybookish OR I might opt for Max Porter's Shy: both audio. Will definitely still give both a go this month!

KT1432 This seems to give a whole new meaning to “choosing the bear!” 😳 5d

merelybookish Oooh how exciting! I hope you enjoy it but will be interested to hear your thoughts regardless. A Canadian classic!! It won awards. 5d

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood

What is it about books about women written in the 1990s?
They are such push overs, so whiny, so boringly priggish. I am hate listening to the tagged at this point, mostly because I need 2 Atwood's to push down a bad man from my most read list. I am begging 1993 Atwood to give these women spines!! .

Ruthiella I looked at this book as an allegory and a riff on the fairy tale The Robber Bridegroom. It‘s been a few years but I believe Atwood made the three women intentionally frustrating. 6d

ChaoticMissAdventures @Ruthiella yes I read a few reviews that said it was fairy tale related, but goodness. What whiners! But I gave a thing against books written in the 90s, not sure what happened that decade (I was late teens early 20s) but I don't love them! 6d

BarbaraBB I didn‘t enjoy this one as much as I expected too either. My favorites will always be Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid‘s Tale (hated Testaments though). 6d

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Women Talking | Miriam Toews

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On the 12th day of Christmas, I declare the best book to be...
December was a tie but since I've reviewed Wifey, Women Talking gets the nod here. Based on true events from the early 2000s where nearly 200 women of a Mennonite community in Bolivia were SA'd. This brief book takes place over two days where a few of the women meet up to discuss what they're going to do. The narrator is a male teacher in the community taking minutes, as the women ⬇️

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick don't know how to write anything more than their name, if that. I didn't know anything about Mennonites, and though the events here are fictionalized, I came away with a sense of the horrors these women must've experienced everyday, and not just during their assaults. If you like audiobooks, there's some singing at the end that made this feel special & sorrowful.
#12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo 6d

TheEllieMo This sounds interesting and heart-breaking 5d

melissajayne @TheEllieMo it is heartbreaking 4d

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LitsyEvents

This Side Jordan: A Novel | Margaret Laurence

repost for @Jess861

The first Oh Canada Book Club pick for 2026 has started with This Side Jordan by Margaret Laurence. This is a bi-monthly read so it will go through to the end of February.

All are welcome to join this laid back book club where we explore the books written by Canadian authors. Feel free to join in when a book interests you and jump out when one doesn't.

#Canada #CanadianAuthors #BookClub #BuddyRead

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