Litsy

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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 💕 15h

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

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JuniperWilde I absolutely loved this book. I read it as a physical book. It‘s a treasure 🇨🇦 4h

Bookwormjillk @JuniperWilde I need to re-read it as a physical book 1h

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TheLudicReader

Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay

@Chrissyreadit #tagyoureit

Well, this book has boats. It was my first Elizabeth Hay and I remember liking it a lot…as I have liked all the other books I have read since.

Chrissyreadit 🎉💛🎉💛🎉💛 6mo

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Megabooks

The Immaculate Conception | Ga?tan Soucy

So I looked at the solutions to the clues on Reddit (generally someone has them there by the third ones) and was on the fence about Original Daughter. Of course I got it! 😂😂 Four from #botm plus three from #aardvark plus whatever I buy at Parnassus today. (I already have three staff picks I like.) 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😂 I‘ve lost my mind in the best possible way!!!!

AardvarkBookClub

BarbaraBB That sounds fabulous. Lose yourself in that book buying, you deserve it 🧡 8mo

AmyG You can never have too many books! 8mo

squirrelbrain Can‘t wait to see your book haul! 8mo

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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 😳😖😳😖😳😖 10mo

Soubhiville Well that‘s bizarre. 10mo

kspenmoll What?!😳 10mo

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Leftcoastzen 😵 10mo

willaful *boggle* 10mo

Ruthiella 🤮🙄😳 10mo

Hooked_on_books 😂 10mo

BarbaraBB 🤣🤣 love the accompanying photo 🤣🤣 10mo

Cathythoughts Yuck 🤮 I‘m staying away from this one. 10mo

CSeydel Whoa, that‘s a sentence I can‘t unread 10mo

Susanita That‘s pretty bad 🤣🤣 10mo

Anna40 Why oh why? 10mo

OrangeMooseReads That line gives me the ick lol 10mo

youneverarrived 🙈😂😂 10mo

sarahbarnes That is…so bad. 😆😆😆 10mo

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Thanks for sharing that sentence 🤣 I think I‘d take it as my sign to DNF 10mo

merelybookish @aims42 @soubhiville @kspenmoll @leftcoastzen @willaful @ruthiella @hooked_on_books Definitely a sentence that inspires a lot of emojis! And disgust. 😂 10mo

merelybookish @barbarabb seemed better than an Oh Henry bar. 😆 10mo

merelybookish @cathythoughts A wise decision! 10mo

merelybookish @CSeydel Oh, it's bad! Perhaps I should have provided a trigger warning. 10mo

merelybookish @susanita @anna40 @youneverarrived @sarahbarnes It's like one of those comparisons would have been more than enough to gross me out... but three???? 10mo

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.) 10mo

TheLudicReader Dear Lord, I have no memory of that. 🤮 10mo

quietlycuriouskate Oh dear God.... and I still haven't forgotten the penis/seahorse image in The English Patient! 10mo

merelybookish @TheLudicReader This is one of the downsides of audiobooks. Harder to ignore or not hear terrible prose. 10mo

merelybookish @quietlycuriouskate Oh God, I wonder if it's a Canadian thing. 😒 10mo

Reggie Lololololololololol 10mo

merelybookish @Reggie exactly!!! 😂 10mo

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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 😽 🐾 11mo

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! 11mo

Librarybelle A lovely Caturday! 11mo

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Lindy I look forward to hearing what you think. I‘m a minority opinion on this. 11mo

TheLudicReader I read this years ago and really liked it. 10mo

merelybookish @TheKidUpstairs I'm not the only one!! 10mo

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! 10mo

merelybookish @TheLudicReader Good to know! The women in my book club are also fans. 10mo

merelybookish @Librarybelle @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love a Caturday! 😺 10mo

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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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Aconight

October | Richard B Wright

#October midweek wrap up
@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

10 Oct #1 - Looking Glass Sound 4 🌟
Haven't read a book this fast in a while! Magic, murder & betrayal; what more could I ask for.

5 Oct #16 Audio - Night of the Mannequins 3 🌟
Up there in the weird, chaotic & unreliable narrator category.

2 Oct #17 Audio - Court of Sugar & Spice 2 🌟
This had so much potential!!!!! Nutcracker retelling but the copious amount of sex, destroyed it.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y

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Lindy

The Double Life of Benson Yu: A Novel | Kevin Chong

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“At some point, after I‘ve stirred the pot of real life with made-up backstory, these semifictional beings always revolt against me, freeing themselves to make their own startling, self-defeating choices.”

Emotional trauma balances the playfulness in this novel about a writer interacting with his own characters. Let yourself go with the weirdness and you might love it as much as I did.

#ShadowGiller2023 #CanadianAuthor

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Lindy

The Double Life of Benson Yu: A Novel | Kevin Chong