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My intro to Helen Humphrey. She was recommended by my cousin (more specifically Followed by the Lark, but this was the first book of hers I could get my hands on). I loved this so much! surprisingly so! It gave me an entirely new (more intriguing) direction for my own gardens 🌷🪻 and for such a short book I cried several times 😢
I‘ve since picked up more of her work. And bonus that she‘s a 🇨🇦 author from a town near by.

TS being the mastermind that she is released her version of “Look What You Made Me Do” for The Handmaiden‘s Tale. Now she just needs to finally release Taylor‘s version of Reputation.

https://people.com/taylor-swift-surprises-look-what-you-made-me-do-rerecording-h....

Sunday theatre with Daisy-May, who‘s decided she‘s tired of being upright and would like to sprawl on her awful couch for a few hours, thanks.

(The STORIES I could tell you about this couch! It‘s an atrocity. Those leather couches people leave by the curb as freebies and nobody ever actually picks up because they‘re AWFUL are nicer than this late Victorian piece to which my aunt is hopelessly attached.)

This is a keenly incisive book, particularly striking as the narration has a sort of dreamlike quality, and the narrator herself is not entirely reliable. A dystopian world, but one not that far from ours—especially given the current state of politics. Looking at the US‘s Project 2025, it‘s even more striking. And terrifyingly realistic tbh. Certainly still a prescient and clever read, even so long after original publication—and a great reread.

Jumping on the #14books14weeks bandwagon!
There's my stack of 7 physical books, and here's 7 ebooks:
Cecelia and Kate series 1-3
The Good Knight
The Mountain in the Sea
All the Birds in the Sky
Walkaway

I talk about 8 great books in my latest video:

https://youtu.be/YQepqdaHrG4

#LGBTQ #poetry #audiobooks #comics #CanLit #AsianHeritage

MacLeod is the master of the short story. Period. I loved this collection. Nothing more to be said really. #CanLit

Another catch up post and another reread. I enjoyed this much more than I did the first time, in 2023. I've been reading LM Montgomery's journals with #kindredspiritsbuddyread. They give so much more context. Susan seems to echo LMM's concern over WWI. Also, the Anne books have been better in publication order, rather than chronologically. I still have the same gripes as last time (too little about Avonlea favorites), but oh well.

A beautiful spring day calls for reading on the (new!) deck after work. (Pictured with a bubly in a wine glass)

It‘s been a whirlwind week/weekend, but I made time today to finish my #reread of this wonderful book on audio. I had forgotten just how solemn and sad the entire story is. It is truly a novel of WWI on the Canadian home front with all of the stress and grief that includes. Yet, it also has those signature moments of pure beauty and humor that LMM writes so wonderfully. I loved revisiting this story.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #WWI #audiobook