Trying to picture myself telling the embodiment of Spring (in my head that's Persephone) to “Get over yourself. Give me the flowers.“ 🫢😆💐
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Trying to picture myself telling the embodiment of Spring (in my head that's Persephone) to “Get over yourself. Give me the flowers.“ 🫢😆💐
Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence. 💭
so-so2.5⭐️ While the book was written very well, I just didn‘t connect very well with the characters. Partly it had to do with the fact that I was unable to put a time period to the story. #bookclub #canadian #fiction #historicalfiction
so-soI didn't love this one, and the ending was a little vague for my tastes. But I did enjoy the Indigenous spirituality aspect of it. The story follows five generations of Metis women as they struggle with their heritage and generational trauma. There were so many POVs but the audiobook did make it easy to follow with a full cast of narrators. The writing itself was beautifully done
#roll100 @PuddleJumper
My Mothers Day gifts🖤 they know me so well!! #aaponth #aapi #blacklead #monsterlove
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!!!!
pick5⭐️ I loved this gem of a novel. Three stories woven together and I can‘t decide which I liked more. Part mystery, part character development and part coming of age(s). I could feel the cold air on my skin and smell the lake. 🇨🇦
pickJennie‘s Boy, by Wayne Johnston (2023 🇨🇦)
Premise: A memoir of the author‘s childhood living with chronic illness in an impoverished Newfoundland community.
Review: This is close to being a perfect memoir: full of humour, insight, and vulnerability. It does a fantastic job of showing the reader the insecurity of growing up in illness, poverty, and as the child of an alcoholic, but also the power of familial love.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Current read. A book you dive into despite the author‘s restraints. Mary Lawson tells good stories without embellishment. She relies on great characters and a compelling plot leaving the reading to infer bits here and there. IOW she assumes her readers are smart which is always a joy. #canadianwriter 🇨🇦 #canadianlitsy
