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ImperfectCJ
Moon of the Turning Leaves | Waubgeshig Rice
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I guess that wraps up my #WeeklyFavorites for March. It's been a pretty good reading month, but moving into April, I feel like I need a refresh of how I approach reading. I've been using audiobooks as a replacement for putting my hands over my ears, and I would rather move *towards* books rather than *away* from reality. So we'll see if I can find a little more balance as we move into spring.

@Read4life

Read4life Here‘s hoping you find the balance you‘re looking for. 💙📚💙🎧💙 14h
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DebinHawaii
Magic for Marigold | L.M. Montgomery
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#Read2025

I finished this one last night for #ChildrensClassicRead2025 & it‘s a soft pick for nostalgia for the author. I found it too long & disjointed with it being separate stories really rather than cohesive chapters. It could be because I waited for the end of the month & was hurrying a bit but I had a hard time keeping track of all of the family & other characters. It did have some charming moments though.

DieAReader 💖💖💖 1d
TheBookHippie It is not my favorite of hers but like you some of the passages I really enjoyed! 1d
LeahBergen It‘s not a favourite of mine either but … you‘re right. Any LMM is usually good for a hit of nostalgia, isn‘t it? 😊 23h
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emilycoc
Rainbow Valley | L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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Another charming read! I enjoyed getting to know more of the world of Ingleside and Anne's presence was still felt throughout. What surprised me was how late in time this was set - I always imagined the Anne of Green Gables series to be set in the 1800s, but there were a lot of references to historical events from the early 1900s. It makes sense, but still surprised me! Just one book left and I'm done this series. (Pictured with my next read)

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JackOBotts
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April #bookspin & #doublespin lists

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 18h
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Singout
Cold: A Novel | Drew Hayden Taylor
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A Toronto-based story centered on four Anishnaabe characters (a professor, a grad student, a visiting hockey player, and a bush pilot), a Caribbean writer, and a white detective: all brought unexpectedly together by a series of abrupt and incredibly brutal murders. This is far more than a murder mystery, going into Indigenous culture, history and human rights; sports culture; and a bit of romance. Very well developed, but the ending is a bit neat.

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Mattsbookaday
Street of Riches | Gabrielle Roy
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Street of Riches, by Gabrielle Roy (1955, trans. 1957 🇨🇦)

Premise: A series of stories about the author‘s childhood in Manitoba‘s francophone community.

Review: This was a marvelous surprise. These stories — seventy years old themselves, but recounting events of thirty years earlier — strike a perfect balance: You feel the foreignness of this version of Canada from a century ago, while also seeing the seeds for the country we‘ve become. Cont.

Mattsbookaday But it‘s the little common touches of universal humanity that I‘ll remember most about this tender and beautiful, deserved Canadian classic.

Bookish Pair:This would be an interesting pairing with a more contemporary collection, such as Bernardine Evaristo‘s Girl Woman Other (2019).

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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DebinHawaii
Magic for Marigold | L.M. Montgomery
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#Naturalitsy #HyggeHourReadathon

Tonight‘s #HyggeHour is being spent with Marigold. Trying to finish this one for #ChildrensClassicRead2025 March. My drink is coconut tea & my snack is a haupia (coconut) cupcake. (Which is yum!) 😋

My mood is a little tired & wishing the weekend was longer as it will be another busy work week ahead.

AnnCrystal 😋💝. 2d
AllDebooks 🥥 tea sounds delicious 😋 2d
kspenmoll Coconut cupcake -yum! 2d
Lesliereadsalot Coconut tea and a coconut cupcake would be my ideal meal! 2d
TheBookHippie ♥️ 2d
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kspenmoll
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A darkish totally gray cloud morning. Perfect for hot blueberry scone , clotted cream & coffee. Off to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford for a cafe lunch & to view Divine Geometry: Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum.

TheKidUpstairs Sounds like a lovely day, enjoy! 3d
quietlycuriouskate That sounds like a beautiful day! 3d
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Anna40
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is an author from Canada.In this book of prose fragments&poetry she explores decolonisation,resistance&healing.”You see, tragedy happened again. The details don‘t matter because details are hopeless, overwhelmed, shut down.”
The painting is by Clemence Wescoupe(Anishnaabe/Ojibwe),1975.I saw the exhibition on the Woodland Artists today.After two tough weeks&no end in sight this book&the paintings brought some solace.

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LynsLibrary
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"You'd need the population of 123 million planet Earths to have a large enough population for it to be likely that two people share the same DNA profile"
This crime was unsolved for 30 years until genetic genealogy traced the DNA to a suspect.
Although it's closing ice cold cases I was surprised to learn the war between the leaders of the genealogy community involving privacy concerns. The evolution of DNA genealogy depicted was fascinating

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