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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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Overall, a pleasant experience. I'll admit I was confused to start with, as the author has produced works of fiction related to the Vinyl Cafe radio show, but this collection is essays rather than short stories.
A lot are simple moments, what I might term as palate cleansers, but they do occasionally get more involved, heavy, moving, discussing the author's past and present as well as that of Canada and Canadians. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I am charmed to the point of wanting to look into more of his writing.
Perhaps it's the timing of this particular holiday weekend, but it does make me want to look into more (settler) Canadian authors and Indigenous authors representing the nations originally and continuously inhabiting this land.
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Robotswithpersonality 3/? Favourites from this collection:

The Front Lawn
Safe Places
The Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company
Watermelon

[Loved most of the Reader's Notes section]
Book Buying
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
W.O. Mitchell
Free Books
The Creation of Sam McGee
Leacock Country
14h
Robotswithpersonality 4/4
The Way Which is Not the Way
Richard Stanfield's Grave
Biking Across Canada
Bridge Walking
Parliament Hill
Motels
My Hello Problem
Spelling
The National Umbrella Collective
The Desk Lamp
14h
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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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🚂☺️

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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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...“as if I had run my hand across the entire country like you would a piano.“
I love the way that description engages the senses.

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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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...“the deadfalls are part of the beauty.“
Suddenly my love of old graveyards and old forests are linked. What a wonderful way of seeing.

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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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🍃☀️

BarbaraJean 💜 I have a friend who describes his favorite color as “sunlight through leaves.“ 22h
Robotswithpersonality @BarbaraJean YES! I have a weakness for most greens, but that hue's hard to beat. 14h
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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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💅🏻

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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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📚♥️

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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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🍒🌸😌

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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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👏🏻🙌🏻

TheBookHippie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1d
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Robotswithpersonality
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean
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Feels like just the thing this weekend...🇨🇦