Litsy

Blueberry

Etta and Otto and Russell and James | Emma Hooper

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5 ⭐ #CanadaReads25
An epistolary novel.

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Jess861

Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese

No surprise that Indian Horse was the best book I read in February and that it topped West with Giraffes. The rest of the books I read in February were just ok and while West with Giraffes is good - Indian Horse is in a class of it's own.

Note: Not my template - off Pinterest.

#ReadingBracket #ReadingBracket2025 #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket

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BarbaraBB

Road Ends: A Novel | Mary Lawson

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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.

TrishB Lovely pic too ♥️ 19h

Tamra ❤️ Lawson 19h

JuniperWilde I was just thinking about this book tonight. It‘s on my list and I‘ll pick it up as my next read. 🇨🇦❤️ 11h

Cathythoughts Lovely review ❤️ I remember loving A Town Called Solace. I must get back to her. 9h

BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts I loved that one too! 5h

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LitsyEvents

Rainbow Valley | L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Repost for @BarbaraJean
Next up in the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead our #LMMReread of Rainbow Valley & our #LMMAdjacent read of The Last of the Mohicans. @BarbaraJean will post check ins on Saturdays; full discussion of Rainbow Valley will be March 15 & for Last of the Mohicans it will be on April 12.
All are welcome to join in! Please let @BarbaraJean know if you want to be added to or removed from the tag
list.

BarbaraJean Thanks for re-posting! 22h

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CarolynM

Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese

#BookReport for February

My favourite this month was Indian Horse.

melissajayne Indian Horse is such a sad, but beautiful story. 1d

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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 😳😖😳😖😳😖 2d

Soubhiville Well that‘s bizarre. 2d

kspenmoll What?!😳 2d

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Leftcoastzen 😵 2d

willaful *boggle* 2d

Ruthiella 🤮🙄😳 2d

Hooked_on_books 😂 1d

BarbaraBB 🤣🤣 love the accompanying photo 🤣🤣 1d

Cathythoughts Yuck 🤮 I‘m staying away from this one. 1d

CSeydel Whoa, that‘s a sentence I can‘t unread 1d

Susanita That‘s pretty bad 🤣🤣 1d

Anna40 Why oh why? 1d

OrangeMooseReads That line gives me the ick lol 1d

youneverarrived 🙈😂😂 1d

sarahbarnes That is…so bad. 😆😆😆 1d

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Thanks for sharing that sentence 🤣 I think I‘d take it as my sign to DNF 1d

merelybookish @aims42 @soubhiville @kspenmoll @leftcoastzen @willaful @ruthiella @hooked_on_books Definitely a sentence that inspires a lot of emojis! And disgust. 😂 1d

merelybookish @barbarabb seemed better than an Oh Henry bar. 😆 1d

merelybookish @cathythoughts A wise decision! 1d

merelybookish @CSeydel Oh, it's bad! Perhaps I should have provided a trigger warning. 1d

merelybookish @susanita @anna40 @youneverarrived @sarahbarnes It's like one of those comparisons would have been more than enough to gross me out... but three???? 1d

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.) 1d

TheLudicReader Dear Lord, I have no memory of that. 🤮 20h

quietlycuriouskate Oh dear God.... and I still haven't forgotten the penis/seahorse image in The English Patient! 20h

merelybookish @TheLudicReader This is one of the downsides of audiobooks. Harder to ignore or not hear terrible prose. 19h

merelybookish @quietlycuriouskate Oh God, I wonder if it's a Canadian thing. 😒 19h

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JacqMac

Dandelion | Jamie Chai Yun Liew

so-so

Last Canada Reads book. I found this one hard to get through. I don‘t know if it was the fact that I didn‘t like any of the characters or the writing. I knew what she was trying to make me feel, but I was too annoyed to feel it. It‘s potentially a good story, I just don‘t think it‘s very well told. Overall, this year‘s selection was not my favorite. They all had some pretty major issues. Or maybe I just had some major issues with all of them.

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TreenaReads

The Very Marrow of Our Bones: A Novel | Christine Higdon

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This one deserves all of your love, especially if you‘re into awesome Canadian literature. This gorgeously written, compulsively readable family saga, focussing around the disappearance of two women from a working class town, is layered with secrets, masterfully revealed.

#ohcanada #canlit #fiction

TheKidUpstairs Oooh, I've got to read this one. I read one from Higdon last year and LOVED it:

Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue: A Novel

TreenaReads @TheKidUpstairs 🙌🏽Yes! I loved it too! 2d

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BarbaraJean

Rainbow Valley | L. M. Montgomery

Next up in the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead: our #LMMReread of Rainbow Valley, and our #LMMAdjacent read of The Last of the Mohicans.

I‘ll post check-ins on Saturdays; the full discussion of Rainbow Valley will be March 15, and for Last of the Mohicans it will be on April 12.

All are welcome to join in! I‘ll post my tag lists for each book in the comments. Please let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be (or vice versa!)