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Another new to me series started. Although I wasn‘t really surprised by anything, I still enjoyed it. There are more secrets to be found in Promise Falls & I look forward to reading all about them🤓🤭
pickMegan 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.
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. ?
My bookspin for March, a Canadian #Canlit children's classic from the 1980s. Hope to start later today!
pickA very Booker Prize-ish book - it was a bit tricky. This is a series of stories spanning 1908 to 2025 covering love, both romantic and between parent and child, loss, war and science. What I struggled with was the telling, individual stories moving back and forth in time, the narrative in each story also moving around from paragraph to paragraph. Lovely in parts, but it was harder work than I‘m willing to invest.
pickA moving story told in visual art and fiction,following an elder Chinese Canadian living in Toronto‘s gentrifying Chinatown–Kensington Market neighbourhood,as she attempts to cope with the sudden death of her beloved husband. As well as giving a voice to an often unseen demographic,this touching novel also captures a side of the city and a neighbourhood that outsiders often don‘t get to experience: its compassion❤️
#ohcanada #canlit #iamcanadian
pickFern and Will spent a whole 24 hours together and planned to meet up a year later, but he never showed. 9 years later, he shows up to help her family‘s resort. Will she be able to forgive him for standing her up?
4.5⭐️ I enjoyed this one way more than her 1st book. There was a little more comedy & romance, but I wanted a bit more spice.
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...
pickThis book and the first one are a reading highlight of the year. Glad I listened to the audiobook to hear the Anishnaabe language and names spoken.
