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This book is utterly unique. It reads almost like an epic poem of old, but at the same time, completely new. Medieval-Modern, knights for the new age. It examines the mythology of Camelot through the lens of today‘s world, with all its complexities and difficulties and joys, where even the setting feels queer and off-kilter. ⬇️

Possibly in keeping with the season…

Such a great book! A story that follows 5 survivors of Indian residential schools. I was tearing up so much as their individual stories unraveled. Such a dark part of history.

From the moment I started this one, I wanted to do very little other than read it.

In 1920s Vancouver, Isla McKenzie seeks out an illegal abortion. Her sisters find her near death in a hospital ward. The consequences ripple through the lives of all four McKenzie sisters and those around them, as they each try to find a life that is true to their own selves in a society that places little value on a woman's ideas, love, and choices. Cont'd 👇

This was such a good read, raw and searching, solid and seeing, compelling and quiet. It is storytelling in the most real sense of that term, like a history being imparted rather than a novel being written. And I guess it is, for all that the characters are fictional, their stories have real cousins out there that also need to be heard. I was deeply affected by the characters and the journeys they each traveled in order to find home.

I feel like the tone of this will be markedly different than my previous couple of reads, but I expect it will be a good one…

"You know what I like to imagine? I like to imagine the streets lined with all earth's fallen women. Everyone else having to pick their way through the streets, stepping over them. That would be some kind of justice, wouldn't it? All those women blocking the path of the sanctimonious bastards who knocked them down. And there would be a lot of us."

Another #CanLit read for #FoodandLit ??

#BoardingSchool. #SchoolSpirit
Sad book. 5 ⭐

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I finally got some outdoor reading time today, but then a hailstorm moved in. Blah.

THE WINTER KNIGHT is the last Canada Reads Longlist title in my queue. Arthurian stuff is a hard sell for me, but I think I might love this one. It‘s all character work and everyday mythology and Vancouver, with great vibes. Not at all the “epic poetry, but make it EDGY (sans actual epic poetry)” feel I somehow expected from it. #gaymay

I stopped in at Toys R Us today and was delighted to find they‘ve expanded their books selection to include lots of material for older teenagers and adults! Some of the genre divisions don‘t make sense (for example, there‘s a weird amount of non-romance on the romance shelf), but whoever their purchaser is brought a lot of diverse books into the fold alongside the uber-popular stuff like Brandon Sanderson and Sarah J. Maas.