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A place to post our plans and completion progress.

√ B 1 - Indigenous Authors
Reading: Black Apple by Joan Crate
Pages: 336
Date Read: May 4, 2016
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 3 stars

Also:
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

√ B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
Plan: The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
Pages: 172 pages
Date Read: May 5, 2016
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ B 3 - Canada Reads
The Hero's Walk (Anita Rau Badama)
368 pages
Finished March 17, 2016
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ B 4 - Recommended By...
The Painted Girls (Cathy Marie Buchanon)
Read: February 28th and got to meet as part of One Book One Brant
Pages: 357
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 3.5 stars

√ B 5 - Canadian Book Awards (Giller) -
Minister Without Portfolio
Pages: 336
Finished March 14, 2016 and got to meet this author as well!
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ I 6 - Monthly Group Read
Bone & Bread by Saleema Nawaz
Pages: 445
Finished:
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ I 7 - Nonfiction
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
Finished: currently reading to replace When Breath Becomes Air with a Canadian choice
Pages: 269 pages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 Stars
Leadership research relating to human happiness by the Toronto author Neil Paschicha who also wrote The Book of Awesome.

and

101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen

√ I 8 - "Best of 2015"
Fifteen Dogs(Andre Alexis)
Finished Feb 14, 2016
Pages: 171 pages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ I 9 - Epic Book
The High Mountains of Portugal (Yann Martel)
Finished: April 13 , 2016
Pages: 332 pages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 2 stars

√ I 10 - Debut Novel
Birdie Tracey Lindberg,
Finished: Feb 15, 2016
Pages: 288 pages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 3

√ N 11 - Bookie Awards
Room (Emma Donaghue)
Finished: May 17, 2016
Pages: 321 pages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 2 stars - the writing was creative but I really struggle with the topic

√ N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
The Illegal
Lawrence Hill
Finished: January 13, 2016
Pages: 400 pages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ N 13 - FREE

√ N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
Moonlight over Paris (Jennifer Robson)
Finished: April 28, 2016

√ N 15 - LGTBQ Author
All Out: A Father and Son Confront the Hard Truths That Made Them Better Men (Kevin and Alex Newman)
Finished: Jan 13, 2016
Pages: 320
Rating: 5
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

√ G 16 - Translated From French
And the Birds Rained Down (Jocelyne Saucier)
Finished: May 16, 2016
Pages: 155 pages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 5 stars

√ G 17 - Classic CanLit - Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
Finished April 22, 2016
Pages: 533 epages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ G 18 - Graphic Novel
Finished: Essex County
Pages: 510 pages
Finished: July 7, 2016
Review:
Rating: 2 stars - difficult to rate as it is really the genre of graphic novels that I am not excited about


√ G 19 - Bookish Advent
Sweetland (Michael Crummery)
Finished:
Pages: 318[
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ G 20 - War / Military
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Finished: July 10, 2016
Pages: 305
Review:
Rating: 3 start
Connection: WW2 and impact on Borneo with Japanese soldiers, POW camps and death of Matthew's father at the war's end

also: A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding (Copleton)
Finished April 16, 2016
Pages:
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars
Link: tale of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing

√ O 21 - Film, Music Art
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
Finished July 28, 2016
Pages: 235
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 5 stars

and: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto (Mitch Albom)
Finished: January 16, 2016
Rating: 5 stars

√ O 22 - Short Story Collection
Runaway (Alice Munro)
Pages: 276 pages
Date Read: July 7, 2016
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

√ O 23 - Frontier / Western
The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel (Katherine Govier)
472 pages
Date Read: May 29, 2016
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 3 stars
Link: 3 generations struggling with the loss of family in a climbing expedition in the early 1900s in the Canadian Rockies

O 24 - Animals in Literature -
Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Pages: 431
Date Read: August 11, 2016
Review:
Rating: 3 stars

√ O 25 - 100 Novels... -
Lullabies for Little Criminals;
Date Read: March 25, 2016
Pages: 330 pages
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Rating: 4 stars

I've complete mine and want to keep a record of it.


✔ B1 Indigenous Authors:
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
Page Count: 256
Date Read: February 19 - 23
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Northwestern Ontario (http://www.richardwagameseauthor.com/)

✔ B2 International Author; Canadian Setting:
The Bone Seeker by M.J. McGrath
Page Count: 352
Date Read: January 27 - February 6
Rating: 3.5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: author from the UK; mystery set in the Canadian Arctic (http://www.melaniemcgrath.com/)

✔ B 3 - Canada Reads:
The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
Page Count: 448
Date Read: February 13 - 18
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: 2016 contender (http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/01/meet-...)

✔ B 4 - Recommended By... :
Floating Like the Dead: Stories by Yasuko Thanh
Page Count: 232
Date Read: May 19-24
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Recommended by Magdalanye

✔ B 5 - Canadian Book Awards:
Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter
Page Count: 336
Date Read: January 31 - February 8
Rating: 3.5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist 2013 (http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/f...)

✔ I 6 - Monthly Group Read:
The Radiant City by Lauren B. Davis
Page Count: 325
Date Read: May 3 - 15
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: May 2016 group read

✔ I 7 - Nonfiction:
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste Merasty
Page Count: 113
Date Read: February 21
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: A memoir. http://www.cbc.ca/books/2015/01/the-e...

✔ I 8 - "Best of 2015":
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
Page Count: 323
Date Read: January 10 - 11
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: From the 'Best of 2015' List (http://www.cbc.ca/books/bestbooks2015...)

✔ I 9 - Epic Book:
The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong
Page Count: 399
Date Read: March 27 - April 8
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: takes place over 66 years. (http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=7...)

✔ I 10 - Debut Novel:
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
Page Count: 224
Date Read: January 25 - 31
Rating: 3.5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: author's first novel (http://www.traceylindberg.ca/)

✔ N 11 - Bookie Awards:
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
Page Count: 322
Date Read: February 23 - March 1
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: 2015 CBC Bookie Awards Fiction finalist (http://www.cbc.ca/books/bookies2015/)

✔ N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC:
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Page Count: 688
Date Read: April 26 - May 5
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Writers & Company, Sunday November 01, 2015 (http://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcom...)

N 13 FREE:

✔ N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting:
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
Page Count: 480
Date Read: March 5 - March 14
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
connection: Set in the West Indies (http://canadian-writers.athabascau.ca...)

✔ N 15 - LGTBQ Author:
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Page Count: 328
Date Read: January 4 - 13
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award winner for Lesbian Fiction. (http://www.chinelookparanta.com/)

✔ G 16 - Translated From French:
Twenty-One Cardinals AKA Les Héritiers de la Mine by Jocelyne Saucier
Page Count: 224
Date Read: January 18 - 21
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: translation by Rhonda Mullins (http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/twen...)

✔ G 17 - Classic CanLit:
Bear by Marian Engel
Page Count: 160
Date Read: January 12-13
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: CBC books lists it as a "controversial Canadian literary classic" ( http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/07/bear....)

✔ G 18 - Graphic Novel:
The Outside Circle by Patti Laboucane-Benson
Page Count: 128
Date Read: January 1
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: On the CBC Books list: 10 graphic novels you need to read (http://www.cbc.ca/books/2015/05/10-gr...)

✔ G 19 - Bookish Advent:
L'Acquittement by Gaétan Soucy
Page Count: 123
Date Read: February 9 - 11
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Dec. 21, 2015 (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)

✔ G 20 - War / Military:
Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien
Page Count: 256
Date Read: February 15 - 20
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Explores the aftermath of war. (http://www.cbc.ca/books/booksandautho...)

✔ O 21 - Film, Music, Art:
Whale Music by Paul Quarrington
Page Count: 226
Date Read: June 12-16
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Whale Music, was called "the greatest rock'n'roll novel ever written" by Penthouse magazine. (http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/13...)

✔ O 22 - Short Story Collection:
Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill
Page Count: 368
Date Read: February 22 - 29
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: O'Neill's first collection of short stories (http://www.harpercollins.ca/978155468...)

✔ O 23 - Frontier / Western:
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Page Count: 387
Date Read: January 1 - 9
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: taken from list of examples (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)

✔ O 24 - Animals in Literature:
Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
Page Count: 432
Date Read: June 17 - 22
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Winnifred the tortoise

✔ O 25 - 100 Novels...:
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Page Count: 368
Date Read: February 29 - March 6
Rating: 3.5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: from the ‘100 novels that make you proud to be Canadian’ list (http://www.cbc.ca/books/books100.html)

COMPLETED NOVEMBER 29, 2016

✔ B 1 - Indigenous Author
• Title: Medicine Walk
• Author: Richard Wagamese
• Page count: 245
• Date read: Read from August 2 to 8, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Richard Wagamese is from the Ojibway Wabasseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario

✔ B 2 - International Author, Canadian Setting
• Title: The Shipping News
• Author: Annie Proulx
• Page count: 352
• Date read: Read from March 21 to 27, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. This is the story of Quoyle who returns to his ancestral home in Newfoundland.

✔ B 3 - Canada Reads
• Title: February
• Author: Lisa Moore
• Page count: 310
• Date read: Read from November 14 to 22, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: 2013 Canada Reads Winner http://www.cbc.ca/books/CRpreviouswin...

✔ B 4 - Recommended By...
• Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Author: Lionel Shriver
• Page count: 400
• Date read: Read from February 18 to 26, 2016
• Rating: ★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: My sister-in-law recommended this book to me.

✔ B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
• Title: Mercy Among the Children
• Author: David Adams Richards
• Page count: 384
• Date read: Read from July 15 to 23, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: 2000 Giller Prize Winner http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/a...

✔ I 6 - Monthly Group Read
• Title: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• Author: Iain Reid
• Page count: 224
• Date read: Read from September 14 to 16, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Otober 2016 Group Read

✔ I 7 - Nonfiction
• Title: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
• Author: Cheryl Strayed
• Page count: 315
• Date read: Read from March 05 to 11, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: A 2012 memoir by American author Cheryl Strayed, describing her 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 as a journey of self-discovery.

✔ I 8 - From CBC's Best Books of 2015
• Title: The Illegal
• Author: Lawrence Hill
• Page count: 400
• Date read: Read from November 09 to 17, 2016
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: From CBC's Best Books of 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/books/bestbooks2015...

✔ I 9 - An Epic Book
• Title: Gone with the Wind
• Author: Margaret Mitchell
• Page count: 1,037
• Date read: Read from June 18 to July 29, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war.

✔ I 10 - Debut Novel
• Title: The Girls
• Author: Emma Cline
• Page count: 355
• Date read: Read from September 03 to 06, 2016
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Emma Cline's debut novel

✔ N 11 - Bookie Awards
• Title: A Tale for the Time Being
• Author: Ruth Ozeki
• Page count: 422
• Date read: Read from June 05 to 10, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: 2014 Bookie Award finalist
http://live.cbc.ca/Article/351533-The...

✔ N 12 - As Heard on Writers & Co., and The Next Chapter
• Title: Where I Belong
• Author: Alan Doyle
• Page count: 315
• Date read: Read from June 10 to 16, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: The Next Chapter (originally aired October 6, 2014)
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapte...

✔ N 14 - Canadian Author, International Setting
• Title: The Friday Night Knitting Club
• Author: Kate Jacobs
• Page count: 352
• Date read: Read from June 30 to July 09, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Kate Jacobs is a Canadian author. The Friday Night Knitting Club takes place in New York.

✔ N 15 - LGTBQ Author
• Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Author: Truman Capote
• Page count: 142
• Date read: Read from January 07 to 11, 2016
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Although Capote seemed never really to embrace the gay rights movement, his own openness about homosexuality and his encouragement for openness in others makes him an important player in the realm of gay rights nonetheless.

✔ G 16 - Translated from French
• Title: The Stranger
• Author: Albert Camus
• Page count: 123
• Date read: Read from October 12 to 13, 2016
• Rating: ★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: This novel by French writer Albert Camus was originally published in French in 1942.

✔ G 17 - Classic CanLit
• Title: Anne of Green Gables
• Author: L.M. Montgomery
• Page count: 320
• Date read: Read from October 05 to 10, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: A classic of Canadian children's literature.

✔ G 18 -Graphic Novel
• Title: Through the Woods
• Author: Emily Carroll
• Page count: 208
• Date read: Read on September 21, 2016
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics-sensation, Canadian Kate Beaton.

✔ G 19 - Bookish Advent
• Title: The Snow Child
• Author: Eowyn Ivey
• Page count: 386
• Date read: Read from November 23 to 29, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: December 25 Bonus
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ G 20 - War/Military
• Title: The Cellist of Sarajevo
• Author: Steven Galloway
• Page count: 235
• Date read: August 12, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: The story explores how war can change one's definition of humanity, the effect of music on our emotional endurance, and how a romance with the rituals of daily life can itself be a form of resistance.

✔ O 21- Film, Music, Art
• Title: The English Patient
• Author: Michael Ondaatje
• Page count: 320
• Date read: Read from July 29 to August 02, 2016
• Rating: ★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: The book was adapted into a 1996 film by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, and Juliette Binoche. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—at the 69th Academy Awards.

✔ O 22 - Short Stories
• Title: The Lost Salt Gift Of Blood: Collected Stories
• Author: Alistair MacLeod
• Page count: 168
• Date read: Read from June 01 to July 12, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.

✔ O 23 - Frontier/Western
• Title: The Luminaries
• Author: Eleanor Catton
• Page count: 848
• Date read: Read from August 22 to September 03, 2016
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: The story's setting is the New Zealand frontier during the gold rush.

✔ O 24 - Animals in Literature
• Title: Green Grass, Running Water
• Author: Thomas King
• Page count: 469
• Date read: Read from August 20 to 29, 2016
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: The trickster Coyote is a central character.

✔ O 25 - 100 Novels
• Title: Still Life
• Author: Louise Penny
• Page count: 352
• Date read: Read from June 19 to 30, 2016
• Rating: ★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: From CBC's 100 Novels That Make You Proud to be Canadian
http://www.cbc.ca/books/books100.html

BINGO! Woo hoo, I did it!

Barbara's Plan:

*B 1 - Indigenous Authors
Book: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Author: Thomas King
Pages: 336
Date read: January 1-3
Rating: 5-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
Book: The Tenderness of Wolves
Author: Stef Penney
Pages: 448
Date read: October 7- November 5
Rating: 4-stars
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*B 3 - Canada Reads - has been part of Canada Reads (or from Quebec’s Le Combat des Livres) - whether a finalist, or part of the longlists
Book: Station Eleven
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Pages: 336
Date read: July 12-15
Rating: 5-stars
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: 2016 Canada Reads longlist

*B 4 - Recommended By by a Goodreads CBC Group Member
Book: All My Puny Sorrows
Author: Miriam Toews
Pages: 321
Date read: April 20-May 15
Rating: 5-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Recommended by Jennifer Dec 22, 2015 post

*B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
Book: Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Pages: 321
Date read: Jul 24
Rating: 4-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award Winner 2011, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Winner 2010, 2010 Governor General's Awards Nominee

*I 6 - Monthly Group Read
Book: Still Life
Author: Louise Penny
Pages: 293
Date Read: June 8-12
Rating: 3.5-stars
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: August 2013 Monthly Group Read

*I 7 - Nonfiction
Book: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Author:Susannah Cahalan
Pages: 250
Date read: June 26
Rating: 5-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*I 8 - "Best of 2015"
Book: Undermajordomo Minor
Author: Patrick deWitt
Pages: 352
Date read: March 30-April 1
Rating: 3-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*I 9 - Epic Book
Book: The Piano Man's Daughter
Author: Timothy Findley
Pages: 541
Date read: November 12-21
Rating: 3-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*I 10 - Debut Novel
Book: Brown Girl in the Ring
Author: Nalo Hopkinson
Pages: 256
Date read: February 22-23
Rating: 4-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*N 11 - Bookie Awards
Book: The Troop
Author:Nick Cutter
Pages: 358
Date read: May14-22
Rating: 3-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Bookie Award nominee 2015 Thriller/horror/mystery/crime

*N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
Book: A Brief History of Seven Killings
Author: Marlon James
Pages: 688
Date read: March 1 - May 28
Rating: 4-stars
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Writer's and Company guest Marlon James, Nov 1, 2015

*N 13 - FREE

*N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
Book: Secret Daughter
Author: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Pages: 339
Date read: January 20-25
Rating: 3-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Author born/raised in Toronto writing about India and the US.

*N 15 - LGTBQ Author
Book: Cereus Blooms at Night
Author: Shani Mootoo
Pages: 280
Date read: Sept 17-26
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*G 16 - Translated From French
Book: Twenty-One Cardinals
Author: Jocelyne Saucier
Pages: 176
Date read: July 27-30
Rating: 3-stars
Review:

*G 17 - Classic CanLit
Book: Obasan
Author: Joy Kogawa
Pages: 320
Date read: July 9-10
Rating: 5-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*G 18 - Graphic Novel
Book:Skim
Author: Mariko Tamaki
Pages: 143
Date read: Jul 19-20
Rating: 4-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*G 19 - Bookish Advent
Book: Annabel
Author: Kathleen Winter
Pages: 464
Date read: January 30 - February 1
Rating: 5-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Bookish advent Dec 25 Bonus book

*G 20 - War / Military
Book: The Wars
Author: Timothy Findley
Pages: 191
Date read: July 16-22
Rating: 3.5-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*O 21 - Film, Music, Art
Book: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Author: Mitch Albom
Pages: 512
Date read: February 20-22
Rating: 4-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Music is a character in the story. The main character is a musician and the book is full of musicians and music references.

*O 22 - Short Story Collection
Book: This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire and the Fantastic
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Pages: 206
Date read: Aug 31-Sept 6
Rating: 4-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*O 23 - Frontier / Western
Book: Lonesome Dove
Author: Larry McMurtry
Pages: 843
Date read: November 21 - December 19
Rating: 5-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*O 24 - Animals in Literature
Book: Beatrice and Virgil
Author: Yann Martel
Pages: 213
Date read: February 24 - March 1
Rating: 3-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: The story is about a play in which the protagonists are a donkey and a howler monkey.

*O 25 - 100 Novels from the ‘100 novels that make you proud to be Canadian’ list
Book: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Author: Gaétan Soucy
Pages: 152
Date read: Sept 20 - Oct 2
Rating: 3-stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

BINGO! (August 12)

B 1 - Indigenous Authors
Medicine Walk - Richard Wagamese
Dates: May 23 - June 7
Pages: 224
Rating and Review: 5 stars
Connection: Richard Wagamese is an Indigenous Canadian from the Ojibway tribe.

B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler
Dates: April 14- 22
Pages: 528
Rating and review: 4 stars
Connection: Takes place mainly in the Canadian Arctic and British Columbia. Cussler is an American writer

B 3 - Canada Reads
Deafening by Frances Itani
Dates: June 6 - 20
Pages: 416
Rating and review: 3 stars
Connection: Canada Reads 2006 Finalist

B 4 - Recommended By...another GR reader Louise
Crow Lake –
Mary Lawson
Dates: May 14 - 17
Pages: 304 (ebook version)
Rating and review: 4 stars
Connection: Recommended by Louise

B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
The Best Laid Plans - Terry Fallis
Dates: July 18 - 22
Pages: 314
Rating and Review: 4 stars
Connection: 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and was crowned the 2011 winner of CBC Canada Reads

I 6 - Monthly Group Read
Breathing Lessons– Anne Tyler (February)
Dates: Jan 22 - Feb 1
Pages: 368
Rating and Review: 4 stars
Connection: February 2015 Group Read

I 7 – Nonfiction
Nellie McClung - Charlotte Gray
Dates: July 19 - 25
Pages: 204
Rating and Review: 3 stars
Connection: Biography of early Canadian feminist and suffragette.

I 8 - "Best of 2015"
City on Fire – Garth Risk Hallberg
Dates: March 6 - 23
Pages: 911
Rating and review: 4 stars
Connection: http://www.cbc.ca/books/bestbooks2015...

I 9 - Epic Book
The High Mountains of Portugal - Yann Martel
Dates: July 4 - 11
Pages: 332
Rating and review: 4 stars
Connection: Covers three connected stories between 1904 and present day

I 10 - Debut Novel
Etta and Otto and Russell and James - Emma Hooper
Dates: Jan. 17 - 21
Pages: 277
Rating and review: 3 star

N 11 - Bookie Awards
Walt - Russell Wangersky
Dates: April 26 - May 2
Pages: 234 (ebook edition)
Rating and review: 5 stars
Connection: Bookie winner 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/books/bookies2015/

N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
Anna Karenina– Leo Tolstoy
Pages: 1180
Read: Jan. 1 - March 6
Rating and Review: 3 stars
Connection: The Next Chapter from Harpist Sarah Pagé

N 13 - FREE

N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
Against a Darkening Sky - Lauren B. Davis
Dates: Feb. 22 - March 4
Pages: 300
Rating and review: 5 stars
Connection: Setting is 7th century Northumbria (UK)

N 15 - LGTBQ Author
The Way the Crow Flies - Ann-Marie MacDonald
Dates: April 18 - May 3
Pages: 848
Rating and review: 5 stars
Connection: Ann-Marie MacDonald identifies as LGTBQ

G 16 - Translated From French
And the Birds Rained Down – Jocelyne Saucier
Dates: May 20 - 27
Pages: 176
Rating and review: 5 stars

G 17 - Classic CanLit
Barometer Rising - Hugh MacLennanHugh MacLennan
Dates: May 10 - June 5
Pages: 326
Rating and review: 4 Stars

G 18 - Graphic Novel
Angel Catbird, Vol. 1 - Margaret Atwood
Dates: October 25 - 26
Pages: 80
Rating and review: 5 stars


G 19 - Bookish Advent
Annabel- Kathleen Winter
Dates: March 4 - 11
Pages: 464
Rating and review: 4 stars
Connection: Bookish Advent bonus book

G 20 - War / Military
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France - Caroline Moorehead (WWII, women resistance)
Dates: March 18 - May 20
Pages: 374
Rating and review: 4 Stars
Connection: Story about women Resistance fighters in France during WWII and their time in the concentration camps.

O 21 - Film, Music, Art
A Gallery of Lost Species - Nina Berkhout
Dates: Feb 10 - 22
Pages: 352
Rating and review: 5 stars
Connection: Two of the four members of the family are artists, the main character works in the National Gallery cataloguing artifacts and art and there is a strong theme of art through the book, with lots of works of art being discussed, compared to the protagonist’s life or situation etc.

O 22 - Short Story Collection
Daydreams of Angels
- Heather O'Neill
Date: July 12 - 19
Pages: 368
Rating and Review: 4 stars

O 23 - Frontier / Western
The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel - Katherine Govier
Dates: July 5 - 18
Pages: 480
Rating and review: 4 stars
Connection: Alberta 1911 following the last glory days and decline of the Canadian western frontier, with a bit in present day

O 24 - Animals in Literature
Fluke - James Herbert
Dates: May 12 - 18
Pages: 215
Rating and review: 3 stars
Connection: Told from the point of view of a dog who was a man reincarnated as a dog. The story describes the world as seen through the eyes of a dog who has memories of the man he was and is trying to find his way back to his family though as a dog, this may be more difficult than predicted because, well, he’s a dog!

O 25 - 100 Novels…
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
Dates: Jan. 29 - Feb. 8
Pages: 432
Rating and review: 4 Stars
Connection: On the list http://www.cbc.ca/books/books100.html

B 1 - Indigenous Author
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
Page Count: 288
Date Read: March 6 - March 12
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)

B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Page Count: 371
Date Read: June 26 - July 5
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Author is Scottish; novel is set in areas north of Georgian Bay, in 1867

B 3 - Canada Reads
The Complete Essex County by Jeff Lemire
Page Count: 512
Date Read: July 27 - Aug 4
Rating & Review: 5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Canada Reads finalist in 2011 (http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/a...)

B 4 - Recommended By...
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Page Count: 324
Date Read: April 15 - April 19
Rating & Review: 5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Recommended by Louise (https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5...)

B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
The High Road by Terry Fallis
Page Count: 352
Date Read: March 30 - April 14
Rating & Review: 3.5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour in 2011 (http://leacock.ca/the-award/past-awar...)

I 6 - Monthly Group Read
Bone & Bread by Saleema Nawaz
Page Count: 445
Date Read: May 25 - June 4
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Group read in August 2015 (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)

I 7 - Nonfiction
The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
Page Count: 304
Date Read: March 27 - April 23
Rating & Review: 3 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)

I 8 - "Best of 2015"
The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
Page Count: 400
Date Read: Feb 4 - Feb 18
Rating & Review: 3 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: http://www.cbc.ca/books/bestbooks2015/

I 9 - Epic Book
Galore by Michael Crummey
Page Count: 336
Date Read: Aug 22 - Aug 29
Rating & Review: 3.5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Spans six generations of two families, and two centuries

I 10 - Debut Novel
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
Page Count: 336
Date Read: July 15 - July 22
Rating & Review: 5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)

N 11 - Bookie Awards
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
Page Count: 322
Date Read: June 13 - June 25
Rating & Review: 4.5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Winner, Best Fiction, 2015 (http://www.cbc.ca/books/2015/02/cbc-b...)

N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
Confidence: Stories by Russell Smith
Page Count: 170
Date Read: July 14 - July 27
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Smith was interviewed about this book on The Next Chapter, May 11, 2015 (http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapte...)

N 13 - FREE -

N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
The Radiant City by Lauren B. Davis
Page Count: 325
Date Read: May 7 - May 18
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Set in Paris, France

N 15 - LGTBQ Author
Journeyman: Travels of a Writer by Timothy Findley
Page Count: 320
Date Read: Feb 28 - March 24
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)

G 16 - Translated From French
The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
Page Count: 246
Date Read: Oct 15 - Oct 20
Rating & Review: 3 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)

G 17 - Classic CanLit
Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
Page Count: 336
Date Read: Sept 11 - Sept 27
Rating & Review: 1.5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)

G 18 - Graphic Novel
SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
Page Count: 276
Date Read: Jan 8 - Jan 12
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: On CBC's list of 10 graphic novels you need to read (http://www.cbc.ca/books/2015/05/10-gr...)

G 19 - Bookish Advent
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage by Kathleen Winter
Page count: 280
Date Read: Sept 1 - Sept 10
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Bookish Advent suggestion, December 7

G 20 - War / Military
Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter
Page count: 336
Date Read: Jan 26 - Feb 1
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Henry Hayward goes to Afghanistan as an embedded civilian contractor.

O 21 - Film, Music, Art
The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
Page Count: 336
Date Read: Jan 1 - Jan 5
Rating & Review: 3 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Made into CBC miniseries (http://www.cbc.ca/thebestlaidplans/)

O 22 - Short Story Collection
Hellgoing: Stories by Lynn Coady
Page count: 240
Date read: Jan 16 - Jan 24
Rating & Review: 3 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)

O 23 - Frontier / Western
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Page count: 387
Date read: Jan 3 - Jan 18
Rating & Review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Set in the Alberta Rockies in 1903

O 24 - Animals in Literature
A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam
Page count: 336
Date read: March 28 - April 4
Rating & Review: 3.5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Part of the novel is told from the points of view of various chimpanzee characters

O 25 - 100 Novels...
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Page count: 360
Date read: March 19 - March 27
Rating & Review: 3 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: http://www.cbc.ca/books/books100.html

Thank you, everyone, for transplanting this entire challenge!

✔︎ B 1 - Indigenous Authors:
• Book: Medicine Walk
• Author: Richard Wagamese
• Pages: 246
• Date read: June 3-18, 2016
• Rating: 5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Author is native Canadian

✔︎ B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting:
• Book: The Tenderness of Wolves
• Author: Stef Penney
• Pages: Listened to audio
• Date read: Jan 29-Feb 2, 2016
• Rating: 5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Author is Scottish, book takes place in Northern Ontario in late 1800s

✔︎ B 3 - Canada Reads:
• Book: Unless
• Author: Carol Shields
• Pages: Listened to audio
• Date read: May 20-27, 2016
• Rating: 5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Contender for Canada Reads 2011 (http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/a...)

✔︎ B 4 - Recommended By...:
• Book: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Author: Shirley Jackson
• Pages: Listened to audio
• Date read: April 4-7, 2016
• Rating: 5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Recommended by Jen

✔︎ B 5 - Canadian Book Awards:
• Book: The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
• Author:Carolyn Abraham
• Pages: 352
• Date read: April 5-24, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Governor General's Literary Awards for Non-Fiction (2013), British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Nominee (2014)

✔︎ I 6 - Monthly Group Read:
• Book: Bone & Bread
• Author: Saleema Nawaz
• Pages: 445
• Date read: Feb 2-21, 2016
• Rating: 3
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: August 2015 Group Read: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔︎ I 7 - Nonfiction:
• Book: The Concubine's Children
• Author: Denise Chong
• Pages: 266
• Date read: April 30-May 19, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: True story Chong's grandparents' immigration to Canada in early 1900s

✔︎ I 8 - "Best of 2015":
• Book: Birdie
• Author: Tracey Lindberg
• Pages: 266
• Date read: Jan 20-31, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Author is a native woman

✔︎ I 9 - Epic Book:
• Book: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
• Author: Madeleine Thien
• Pages: 463
• Date read: October 9-November 12, 2016
• Rating: 5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Epic story spans 3 generations during the Chinese Cultural Revolution

✔︎ I 10 - Debut Novel:
• Book: Secret Path
• Author: Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire
• Pages: 96
• Date read: October 24, 2016
• Rating: 5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
• Connection: Decided to count this as a debut novel, as it is Gord Downie's first book. The poetry is all his; illustrations Lemire's.

✔︎ N 11 - Bookie Awards:
• Book: Between Gods: A Memoir
• Author: Alison Pick
• Pages: 378
• Date read: March 18-April 2, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Nominated for 2015: http://www.cbc.ca/books/bookies2015/

✔︎ N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC:
• Book: Minister Without Portfolio
• Author: Michael Winter
• Pages: 326
• Date read: March 4-12, 2016
• Rating: 3.5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Michael Winter was on The Next Chapter on Feb 29, 2016: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapte...

✔︎ N 13 - FREE

✔︎ N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting:
• Book: The Illegal
• Author: Lawrence Hill
• Pages: 392
• Date read: Jan 1-7, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Fits the bill

✔︎ N 15 - LGTBQ Author:
• Book: All Inclusive
• Author:Farzana Doctor
• Pages: 363
• Date read: Feb 17-25, 2016
• Rating: 2*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Fits the bill


✔︎ G 16 - Translated From French:
• Book: The Party Wall
• Author: Catherine Leroux
• Pages: 243
• Date read: August 26-September 4, 2016
• Rating: 1*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Translated from french by Lazer Lederhendler

✔︎ G 17 - Classic CanLit:
• Book: Never Cry Wolf
• Author: Farley Mowat
• Pages: Listened to audio
• Date read: July 29-August 11, 2016
• Rating: 1*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Widely considered Classic CanLit

✔︎ G 18 - Graphic Novel:
• Book: The Complete Essex County
• Author: Jeff Lemire
• Pages: 512
• Date read: March 12-18, 2016
• Rating: 3*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: It's a graphic novel.

✔︎ G 19 - Bookish Advent:
• Book: Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
• Author: Kathleen Winter
• Pages: 263
• Date read: November 22 to December 05, 2016
• Rating: 3.5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: This book was on the original Advent List.

✔︎ G 20 - War / Military:
• Book: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
• Author: Ishmael Beah
• Pages: Listened to audio
• Date read: March 22-27, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Story of a child soldier in the war in Sierra Leone.


✔︎ O 21 - Film, Music, Art:
• Book: The Diviners
• Author: Margaret Laurence
• Pages: 494
• Date read: September 6 - October 5, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: ...coming...
• Connection: TV film aired on CBC in 1993

✔︎ O 22 - Short Story Collection:
• Book: Dust to Dust: Stories
• Author: Timothy Findley
• Pages: 225
• Date read: July 5-Aug 24, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Short stories by Canadian author

✔︎ O 23 - Frontier / Western:
• Book: The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
• Author: Michael Punke
• Pages: Listened to audio
• Date read: March 9-13, 2016
• Rating: 4*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Truly a frontier story, taking place in Western USA in 1822-23

✔︎ O 24 - Animals in Literature:
• Book: The Art of Racing in the Rain
• Author: Garth Stein
• Pages: Listened to audio
• Date read: March 7-9, 2016
• Rating: 3.5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: Story is narrated by Enzo the dog.

✔︎ O 25 - 100 Novels...:
• Book: The Amazing Absorbing Boy
• Author: Rabindranath Maharaj
• Pages: 334
• Date read: Jan 10-17, 2016
• Rating: 5*
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection: On the list: http://www.cbc.ca/books/books100.html

Like many others, I am finding as many books as I can from my "already-owned-to-read" shelf, which lists my paper books. I also have bunches of unread e-books on the kobo so if I can't find a paper book in my house I'll try there. I don't like to schedule or tie myself down too much, so I'm listing all the options here and will make the selections, and add links and all the necessary information and such as I complete each square.

• Title (linked to GR database)
• Author (linked to GR database)
• Page count
• Date read
• Rating
• Review
• Connection to the square - how does the book fit? (i.e., if a book award, copy and paste link to the award/year) (end spoiler tag)

B 1 - Indigenous Authors
• Sojourners and Sundogs: First Nations Fiction
• by Lee Maracle
• 349 pages
• Read: Feb 7, 2016
• 4 stars
• https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Lee Maracle is an indigenous author, from the Stoh:lo Nation of British Columbia.


B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
- Nothing on my shelves; check kobo

B 3 - Canada Reads
• The Illegal
• Lawrence Hill
• 400 pages
• May 22 - 27, 2016
• 3 stars
• https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• The Illegal was one of the 2016 Canada Reads books.


B 4 - Recommended By...
- Recommended by Penny: The Bishop's Man; The Way The Crow Flies
- Recommended by Alan: The Evening Chorus;
- recommended by Louise: Astray
- recommended by Emmkay: A House in the Sky


B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
• Station Eleven
• Emily St. John Mandel
• 333 pages
• read: Feb 29 - Mar 2 2016
• 4 stars
• https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Winner of the Toronto Book Award: http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/con...

Other possibilities:
- Us Conductors
- The Bishop’s Man
- This Changes Everything


I 6 - Monthly Group Read
- TBD
- possibilities from the past:
- A House in the Sky
- Monkey Beach
- Bone and Bread
- The Bishop's Man

I 7 – Nonfiction
- Karen Armstrong books
- Rupert Ross books
- The Right to be Cold
- 9/11 books
- Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
- Mountains beyond Mountains
- Winter: Five Windows on the Season
- Zealot
- The Winter We Danced
- Clearing the Plains
- Nationhood Interrupted
- Between the World and Me
- Indigenous Men and Masculinities
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
-

I 8 – CBC Books "Best of 2015"
- A God in Ruins
- Between the World and Me
- The Evening Chorus
- The Right to be Cold

I 9 - Epic Book
(nothing on my shelves; check kobo?)
Possibility: Barkskins by Annie Proulx

I 10 - Debut Novel
• The Unquiet Dead
• Ausma Zehanat Khan
• 352 pages
• April 17 - May 1 2016
• 3 stars
• https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• The Unquiet Dead is Ausma Zehanat Khan's first novel.




- Burning Mississipi ? check if it's actually her debut
- Updraft
- Vienna Nocturne
- Bride of New France
- Girl Unwrapped
- Us Conductors

N 11 - Bookie Awards

• Boy, Snow, Bird
• Helen Oyeyemi
• 316 pages
• May 9 - May 13, 2016
• 4 stars
• https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Won the "international fiction" category of the Bookie Awards in 2015

Other possibilities:
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- **Life After Life**
- A House in the Sky


N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC

• Birdie
• Tracey Lindberg
• 256 pages
• March 11 - May 29th, 2016
• 5 stars
• https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square - Tracey Lindberg spoke to Shelagh Rogers about Birdie on The Next Chapter on Feb 1, 2016

Boo, Neil Smith
- Helen Humphreys (check which Book – Evening Chorus? )
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the Right to be Cold
- Vienna Nocturne (May 2014 – comes up in a search – on the Next Chapter)


N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
- Frog Music (kobo)
- The Evening Chorus
- Vienna Nocturne

N 15 - LGTBQ Author
- Marnie Woodrow
- Ann-Marie McDonald
- Helen Humphreys
- Emma Donaghue
- Gabriella Goliger

G 16 - Translated From French
- Du Bon Usage des Etoiles


G 17 - Classic CanLit
- Check kobo

G 18 - Graphic Novel
• The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel
• Patti Laboucane-Benson
• 128 pages
• read Feb 25, 2016
• 4 stars
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square - Graphic Novel

G 19 - Bookish Advent
- owned: Dr. Zhivago

- not owned but TBR:
- Boundless
- Sweetland

G 20 - War / Military
Minister Without Portfolio
Michael Winter
• 326 pages
• Read: Feb 13th, 2016
• 4 stars
• https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• The main character spends time as a contractor in Afghanistan, working with the Canadian military and his friend who is a soldier. Much of the book deals with the aftermath of that experience.

O 21 - Film, Music, Art
- Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell
- Us Conductors

O 22 - Short Story Collection
- A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
- Lucia Berlin
- 432 pages
- Read: Jan 29 - Feb 22 (audiobook)
- Rating: 4 stars
- Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A collection of short stories.

Other possibilities:

- Astray by Emma Donahue
- Born with a Tooth by Joseph Boyden
- Welcome to the Circus

O 23 - Frontier / Western
- The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
- Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig


O 24 - Animals in Literature

- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- by Garth Stein
- pages: 321 pages
- Date Read: March 6, 2016
- My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
- Rating: 3 stars
- Link: a story narrated by Enzo, who is a dog.

other possibilities:

- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Ape House
- Fifteen Dogs

O 25 – “100 Novels That Make you Proud to be Canadian”
(don’t own any of these)
- Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
- The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
- The Time in Between by David Bergen

Hurray for the web cache - just pasting this in for now, but I'll go back and redo the links in HTML when I have time!

B 1 - Indigenous Authors
B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting

B 3 - Canada Reads
Book: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Author: Thomas King
Pages: 336 pages
Date Read: March 23 to 27, 2016
Rating: 3 stars
Review: My Review
Connection: 2015 Canada Reads Shortlist

B 4 - Recommended By...
Book: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson
Pages: 160 pages
Date Read: January 23-25, 2016
Review: my review
Rating: 5 stars
Connection: recommended by Jen at recommendation thread

B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
Book: Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
Author: Doug Saunders
Pages: 368 pages
Dates Read: February 20 to 28, 2016
Rating: 5 stars
Review: My Review
Connection: It won the 2011 Donner Prize, and was short-listed for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Writer's Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

I 6 - Monthly Group Read
Book: Breathing Lessons
Author: Anne Tyler
Pages: 336 pages
Dates Read: February 10-13, 2016
Rating: 3.5 stars
Review: My Review
Connection: February 2016 Group Read

I 7 - Nonfiction
Book: The Prison Book Club
Author: Ann Walmsley
Pages: 304 pages
Date read: April 9 to 12, 2016
Rating: 3 stars
Review: My review
Connection: non-fiction memoir of the author's involvement in a book club for prisoners

I 8 - "Best of 2015"
Book: A God in Ruins
Author: Kate Atkinson
Pages: 395 pages
Date Read: February 20-23, 2016
Rating: 4 stars
Review: My Review
Connection: One of CBC's Best of 2015 Books

I 9 - Epic Book
I 10 - Debut Novel
Book: The Wondrous Woo
Author: Carrianne Leung
Pages: 232 pages
Date read: April 11 to 13, 2016
Rating: 3 stars
Review: My review
Connection: First novel by a Toronto author

N 11 - Bookie Awards

N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
Book: Birdie
Author: Tracey Lindberg
Pages: 288 pages
Date read: June 4 to June 6, 2016
Rating: 4 stars
Review: My review
Connection: on The Next Chapter on Feb 1st 2016

N 13 - FREE -
N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
N 15 - LGTBQ Author

G 16 - Translated From French
G 17 - Classic CanLit

G 18 - Graphic Novel
Book: The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel
Author: Patti Laboucane-Benson
Pages: 128 pages
Date Read: March 14-15, 2016
Rating: 3 stars
Review: My Review
Connection: graphic novel

G 19 - Bookish Advent

G 20 - War / Military
Book: Dogs at the Perimeter
Author: Madeleine Thien
Pages: 264 Pages
Date Read: Feb. 3-Feb. 8, 2016
Rating: 5 stars
Review: My Review
Connection: explores the effects of war and genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s

O 21 - Film, Music, Art
Book: The Woman Upstairs
Author: Claire Messud
Pages: 272 pages
Date Read: March 25 to 29, 2016
Rating: 4 stars
Review: My review
Connection: about a woman whose life experiences dramatic changes when she begins to share a studio with another woman who is working on an elaborate art installation

O 22 - Short Story Collection
Book: Chez l'arabe: Stories
Author: Mireille Silcoff
Pages: 200 pages
Date read: June 11 to 13, 2016
Rating: 4 stars
Review: My review
Connection: short story collection

O 23 - Frontier / Western
Book: The Outlander
Author: Gil Adamson
Pages: 312 pages
Date Read: January 25 to February 2, 2016
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: The Outlander
Connection: set in Alberta...there are dirt-floor cabins, horse rustlers, miners...I think that means it's a Western!

O 24 - Animals in Literature

O 25 - 100 Novels...
Book: The Orenda
Author: Joseph Boyden
Pages: 501 pages
Date read: April 23 to 30, 2016
Rating: 3.5 - 4 stars
Review: My review
Connection: On the list of 100 novels that make you proud to be a Canadian

Thank you SO much for capturing our plans (I'll have to click back to see who I should be thanking!). I had given up on this but am feeling excited now to have the opportunity to continue.

B 1 - Indigenous Authors - Three Day Road (own)
B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting - Canada (own)
B 3 - Canada Reads - Beautiful Losers
B 4 - Recommended By...
B 5 - Canadian Book Awards

I 6 - Monthly Group Read
I 7 - Nonfiction - Indian School Road (own) or I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen (own)
I 8 - "Best of 2015" - Twenty-One Cardinals or Birdie or Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation (own)
I 9 - Epic Book - The Blind Assassin (own)
I 10 - Debut Novel - Us Conductors or Annabel

N 11 - Bookie Awards - Malarky or Annabel
N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC - This is Happy or The Birthday Lunch
N 13 - FREE -
N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting - The Beauty of Humanity Movement (own) or A Hero (own) or Look for Me (own)
N 15 - LGTBQ Author - Fall on Your Knees (own)

G 16 - Translated From French - Nikolski (own)
G 17 - Classic CanLit - The Manticore (own)

G 18 - Graphic Novel
The Outside Circle by Patti Laboucane-Benson
Page Count: 128
Date Read: January 10, 2016
Rating/review: 4.5 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)

G 19 - Bookish Advent - Belonging: Home Away from Home

G 20 - War / Military
Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter
Page count: 336
Date Read: Feb 4-12
Rating & Review: 3 stars - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Experiences of civilian contractors in (and after) Afghanistan

O 21 - Film, Music, Art - The Underpainter (own) or Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
O 22 - Short Story Collection - Home Truths

O 23 - Frontier / Western
The Outlander
Page count: 387p
Date read: January 30, 2016
Rating & review: 4 stars (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
Connection: Set in the Rockies (Alberta) turn of 20th C - life on the frontier for settlers / miners

O 24 - Animals in Literature - Bear
O 25 - 100 Novels... - Beautiful Losers or Crow Lake (own) or Galore (own)

Book Title:
Author:
Page Count:
Date Read:
Rating & Review:
Canadian author:
Connection:


B 1 - Indigenous Authors
Book Title: Medicine Walk
Author:Richard Wagamese
Page Count: 256
Date Read: February 17th and 18th
Rating & Review: 4 stars
Canadian author:yes
B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
Book Title:The Shipping News
Author:Annie Proulx
Page Count: 352
Date Read: March 7th to March 30th
Rating & Review:Review
Canadian author: n/a
Connection:
B 3 - Canada Reads
Book Title:The Hero's Walk
Author:Anita Rau Badami
Page Count: 368
Date Read: February 4th-21, 2016
Rating & Review:4 Stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection: Canada Reads 2016
B 4 - Recommended By
Book Title:MaddAddam
Author:Margaret Atwood
Page Count: 394
Date Read: February 4th to 19th, 2016
Rating & Review: 3 stars
Canadian author:yes
Connection: Recommended by Sarah
B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
Book Title: Green Grass, Running Water
Author: Thomas King
Page Count: 469
Date Read: August 15th to August 21, 2016
Rating & Review: 5 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection: Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction
I 6 - Monthly Group Read
Book Title:The Outlander
Author:Gil Adamson
Page Count: 387
Date Read: Jan 7-19th, 2016
Rating & Review: 3 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection: Group Read for January
I 7 Nonfiction
Book Title: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Author:Chris Hadfield
Page Count: 304
Date Read: Jan 7 to 27th, 2016
Rating & Review: 4 stars
Canadian author:yes

I 8 - "Best of 2015"
Book Title:Birdie
Author:Tracey Lindberg
Page Count: 288
Date Read: March 1 to March 12, 2016
Rating & Review: 4 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection:
I 9 - Epic Book
Book Title: Galore
Author:Michael Crummey
Page Count: 336
Date Read: January 3 to 15, 2016
Rating & Review: 4 1/2 stars
Canadian author: yes
I 10 - Debut Novel
Book Title: The Fishermen
Author:Chigozie Obioma
Page Count: 304
Date Read: January 19th to 26th, 2016
Rating & Review: 4 stars
Canadian author: no

N 11 - Bookie Awards
Book Title:Indian Horse
Author:Richard Wagamese
Page Count: 221
Date Read: December 13th, 2016 to Dec. 22, 2016
Rating & Review: < a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection: 2013 Bookie Awards

N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
Book Title:The Prison Book Club
Author:Ann Walmsley
Page Count: 304
Date Read: April 1 to 14th
Rating & Review: 3 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection: The Next Chapter, January 25th, 2016
N 13 - FREE -
N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
Book Title:The Illegal
Author:Lawrence Hill
Page Count: 400
Date Read: April 3 to 17
Rating & Review:4 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection: Takes place in two fictional countries off the east coast of Africa
N 15 - LGTBQ Author
Book Title: All Inclusive
Author:Farzana Doctor
Page Count: 268
Date Read: September 21 to 27, 2016
Rating & Review: 3 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection: Farzana Doctor is an lgbtq author

G 16 - Translated From French
Book Title:And the Birds Rained Down
Author:Jocelyne Saucier
Page Count: 160
Date Read: February 14th-15th, 2016
Rating & Review: 4 stars
Canadian author: yes
G 17 - Classic CanLit
Book Title: The Tin Flute
Author:Gabrielle Roy
Page Count: 389
Date Read: July 4th to July 15th, 2016
Rating & Review: 5 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection:
G 18 - Graphic Novel
Book Title: Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Author:Sarah Leavitt
Page Count: 132
Date Read: May 27th to May 30th, 2016
Rating & Review: 4 stars
Canadian author: yes
G 19 - Bookish Advent
Book Title: Touch
Author: Alexi Zentner
Page Count: 272
Date Read: November 24th to November 30th, 2016
Rating & Review: Still to come
Canadian author: yes
Connection: From advent list

G 20 - War / Military
Book Title: Three Day Road
Author: Joseph Boyden
Page Count: 384
Date Read: October 16th to November 6th, 2016
Rating & Review: 5 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection: World War 1

O 21 - Film, Music Art
Book Title: Whale Music
Author: Paul Quarrington
Page Count: 224
Date Read: August 2 to 14th, 2016
Rating & Review: Hhref ="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6..." 5 stars
Canadian author:yes
Connection: main character is a musician
O 22 - Short Story Collection
Book Title: Hellgoing
Author:Lynn Coady
Page Count: 240
Date Read: March 7th, 2016 to March 20th, 2016
Rating & Review: 4 stars
Canadian author: yes


O 23 - Frontier / Western
Book Title:The Winter Family
Author:Clifford Jackman
Page Count: 352
Date Read: June 26th to July 10th, 2016
Rating & Review: 3 stars
Canadian author: yes
Connection:
O 24 - Animals in Literature
Book Title: Fifteen Dogs
Author: André Alexis
Page Count: 171
Date Read: February 22 to 27th, 2016
Rating & Review: 4 stars
Canadian author: yes

O 25 - 100 Novels...
Book Title:A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
Author: Marie-Claire Blais
Page Count: 164
Date Read: March 1, to March 4, 2016
Rating & Review: 3 stars
Canadian author: yes

✔︎ B 1 - Indigenous Authors
Book: Monkey Beach
Author: Eden Robinson
Page count: 374
Date read: May 4 - May 5
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Eden Robinson is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations

✔︎ B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
Book: Barkskins
Author: Annie Proulx
Page count: 717
Date read: August 21 - August 28, 2016
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: I'm shoving this one in here even though only part of the book takes place in Canada. I don't really think anyone will mind and why read 700+ pages and not use it for bingo.

✔︎ B 3 - Canada Reads
Book: Birdie
Author: Tracey Lindberg
Page count: 288
Date read: August 17 - August 21
Rating: 3/5
Review:
Connection to the square: One of the books shortlisted for Canada Reads 2016.

✔︎ B 4 - Recommended By...
Book: milk and honey
Author: Rupi Kaur
Page count: 204
Date read: November 22 - November 23, 2016
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Recommended by the poetry thread.

✔︎ B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
Book: Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
Author: Brian Brett
Page count: 384
Date read: June 15 - June 20
Rating: 5/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Trauma Farm won the 2009 Hilary Weston Writer’s Prize for Non-Ficiton.

✔︎ I 6 - Monthly Group Read
Book: Medicine Walk
Author: Richard Wagamese
Page count: 224
Date read: June 16 - June 18
Rating: 3/5
Review:
Connection to the square: CBC Books June Group Read

✔︎ I 7 - Nonfiction
Book: Canadian Pacific: Crating a Brand, Building a Nation
Author: Marc H. Choko
Page count: 384
Date read: June 15 - June 20
Rating: 3/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Canadian Pacific is part company history, part advertising graphic design history of Canadian Pacific Railway advertising campaigns.

✔︎ I 8 - "Best of 2015"
Book: The Outside Circle
Author: Patti Laboucane-Benson
Page count: 128
Date read: December 5, 2016
Rating: 5/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Listed on CBC Books Best of 2015.

✔︎ I 9 - Epic Book
Book: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Author: Madeleine Thien
Page count: 480
Date read: November 3 - November 14, 2016
Rating: 5/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Follows an intertwined saga of two families for three generations.

✔︎ I 10 - Debut Novel
Book: Traitor's Blade
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Page count: 372
Date read: February 6 - February 9
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Traitor's Blade is Sebastien de Castell's debut novel and the first in the Greatcoats series.

✔︎ N 11 - Bookie Awards
Book: Chez l'arabe: Stories
Author: Mireille Silcoff
Page count:
Date read: June 15 - June 19
Rating: 2/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Winner of CBC Bookies 2015 for Short Stories.

✔︎ N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
Book: Cold Hillside
Author: Nancy Baker
Page count: 340
Date read: January 14 - January 15
Rating: 5/5
Review:
Connection to the square: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapte...

✔︎ N 13 - FREE -
Book: The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems
Author: Diana Brebner
Page count: 192
Date read: April 23 - April 24, 2016
Rating: 5/5
Review:
Connection to the square: I know you don't technically need a book for this square but I love this collection so much and wanted to have an even 25 books.


✔︎ N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
Book: The Queen's Lady
Author: Barbara Kyle
Page count: 500
Date read: January 16 - February 4, 2016
Rating: 3/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Historical fiction set in tudor England.

✔︎ N 15 - LGTBQ Author
Book: Bow Grip
Author: Ivan E. Coyote
Page count: 224
Date read: June 15
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Ivan E. Coyote identifies as trans.

✔︎ G 16 - Translated From French
Book: And the Birds Rained Down
Author: Jocelyne Saucier
Page count: 155
Date read: December 4 - December 6, 2016
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Translated from French by Rhonda Mullins

✔︎ G 17 - Classic CanLit
Book: Green Grass Running Water
Author: Thomas King
Page count: 431
Date read: August 29 - September 9
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Modern Canadian classic.

✔︎ G 18 - Graphic Novel
Book: Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Author: Sarah Leavitt
Page count: 127
Date read: February 13
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Tangles is a graphic memoir.

✔︎ G 19 - Bookish Advent
Book: The Douglas Notebooks
Author: Christine Eddie
Page count: 180
Date read: December 19 - December 22, 2016
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Was part of last years advent book challenge.

✔︎ G 20 - War / Military
Book: Canadian Poems of the Great War
Author: John William Garvin
Page count: 256
Date read: June 18 - August 8
Rating: 3/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Canadian Poems of the Great War is a anthology of Canadian poetry from WWI.

✔︎ O 21 - Film, Music, Art
Book: How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
Author: Amber Dawn
Page count: 156
Date read: May 14 - May 20
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: How Poetry Saved My Life is Amber Dawn's memoir that details the transformative power of literature and her journey as a writer.

✔︎ O 22 - Short Story Collection
Book: Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction
Editor: Dominik Parisien
Page count: 304
Date read: September 9 - September 25
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Clockwork Canada is an anthology of steampunk fiction set in Canada, written by Canadian authors.

✔︎ O 23 - Frontier / Western
Book: A Book of Tongues
Author: Gemma Files
Page count: 274
Date read: December 12 - December 26, 2016
Rating: 3/5
Review:
Connection to the square: A weird western fantasy.

✔︎ O 24 - Animals in Literature
Book: Fifteen Dogs
Author: André Alexis
Page count: 160
Date read: August 27 - August 28
Rating: 5/5
Review:
Connection to the square: Practically all the characters as talking dogs.

✔︎O 25 - 100 Novels...
Book: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Author: Elizabeth Smart
Page count: 112
Date read: July 1, 2016
Rating: 4/5
Review:
Connection to the square: One of the books off the 100 books that make you proud to be Canadian list.

✔︎B 1 - Indigenous Authors
Title: DreadfulWater Shows Up
Author: Thomas King
Pages: 242
Date Read: Jan 25 - 28
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Native writer

✔︎B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
Title: The Tenderness of Wolves
Author: Stef Penney
Pages: 371
Read: Feb 7 -8
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: set in Canada with International author

✔︎B 3 - Canada Reads
Title: Station Eleven
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Pages: 336
Read: Feb. 25 - Mar 1
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Canada Reads 2016 Longlist

✔︎B 4 - Recommended By...
Title: H is for Hawk
Author: Helen Macdonald
Pages: 320
Read: Feb 11 -14
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Recommended by Jane

✔︎B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
Title: A Tale for the Time Being
Author: Ruth Ozeki
Pages: 422
Read: March 1- 3
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Winner 2014 Sunburst Award

✔︎I 6 - Monthly Group Read
Title: Adult Onset
Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Pages: 400
Read: Feb. 16 - 18
Rating: 3 stars
Review
Connection: Monthly read Dec 2014

✔︎I 7 - Nonfiction
Title: The Enamoured Knight
Author: Douglas Glover
Pages: 191
Read: March 13 - 15
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Connection: Canadian non-fiction

✔︎I 8 - "Best of 2015"
Title: The Truth Commission
Author: Susan Juby
Pages: 309
Read: Feb 9 - 10
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Connection: -best-books-of-2015

✔︎I 9 - Epic Book
Novel: Galore
Author:Michael Crummey
Pages: 336
Rating: 5 stars
Read: Jan 6 - 8
Review
Connection: Spans several generations in Newfoundland

✔︎I 10 - Debut Novel
Title: The Mystics of Mile End
Author: Sigal Samuel
Pages: 294
Rating: 3 stars
Date read: Feb 7 - 11
Review
Connection: Debut novel

✔︎N 11 - Bookie Awards
Title: The Beggar's Opera
Author: Peggy Blair
Pages: 346
Read: Feb. 20 -21
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Bookie Award 2012

✔︎N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
Title: The Life of Elves
Author: Muriel Barbery
Pages: 258
Read: Feb 22 - 25
Rating: 3 stars
Review
Connection: On W & C Feb 20, 2016

N 13 - FREE -

✔︎N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting:
Title: The Cat's Table
Author:Michael Ondaatje
Pages: 269
Date Read: Jan 2 - 5
Rating: 3 stars
Review
Connection: Takes place on a ship in Mediterranean Sea

✔︎N 15 - LGTBQ Author
Title: Lake on the Mountain: A Dan Sharp Mystery
Author: Jeffrey Round
Pages: 488
Read: March 5 - 7
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Connection: Winner:2013 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery and resident of Toronto

✔︎G 16 - Translated From French
Title: And the Birds Rained Down
Author: Jocelyne Saucier
Pages: 139
Read: March 22 - 23
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Translated by Rhonda Mullins

✔︎G 17 - Classic CanLit
Title: Kiss of the Fur Queen
Author: Tomson Highway
Pages: 320
Read: March 23 - 26
Rating: 5 stars
Review

✔︎G 18 - Graphic Novel
Book: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Author: Guy Delisle
Pages: 192
Date read: Jan 6
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Written by Guy Delisle a Canadian

✔︎G 19 - Bookish Advent
The Curiosity
Stephen P. Kiernan
Pages: 448
Read: Jan 19 - 25
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Connection

✔︎G 20 - War / Military
Title: The Cellist of Sarajevo
Author: Steven Galloway
Pages: 231
Read: April 12 -15.
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Takes place during siege of Sarajevo

✔︎O 21 - Film, Music, Art
Title: The Gallery of Lost Species: A Novel
Author: Nina Berkhout
Pages: 352
Read: March 15 - 17
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Connection: Family of artists

✔︎O 22 - Short Story Collection
Title: High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories
Author: Robertson Davies
Pages: 208
Read: April 1 - 16
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Connection: Collection of short stories

✔︎O 23 - Frontier / Western
Title: The Sisters Brothers
Author: Patrick deWitt
Pages: 325
Read: Feb 18 -20
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: Western

✔︎O 24 - Animals in Literature
Title: Fifteen Dogs
Author: André Alexis
Pages: 171
Read: Feb 28 - 29
Rating: 5 stars
Review
Connection: dogs

✔︎O 25 - 100 Novels...
Title: The Golden Mean
Author: Annabel Lyon
Pages: 304
Date Read: Jan 9 - 19
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Connection

MJ's Tentative 2016 Bingo Challenge Plans
BINGO CARD COMPLETED DEC 30, 2016
25 of 25 completed incl 1 Free Square

✔︎B 1 Indigenous Authors
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste Merasty
113 p., Feb 28/16, 2 stars, My Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎B 2 Intn’l Author: Canadian Setting
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
256 p., June 8/16, 3 stars, My Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎B 3 Canada Reads 2015
Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese
376 p., Nov 9/16, 5 stars, My Review to Come
✔︎B 4 Recommended By Jen
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
294 p., Nov 26, 4 stars, My Review to Come
✔︎B 5 Canadian Book Awards
Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter
336 p., Feb 20/16, 3 stars, My Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

✔︎II 6 Monthly Group Read
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
224 p., Nov 19/16, 4 stars, My Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎I 7 Nonfiction
The River by Helen Humphreys
224 p., Apr 14, 4 stars, My Review - thttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎I 8 "Best of 2015"
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
305 p., Apr 5/16, 3 stars,
My Review - htpps://ps://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1602308856
✔︎I 9 Epic Book
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
480 p., Aug 29/16, 5 Stars, My Review -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎I 10 Debut Novel
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
288 p., Mar13/16, 4 stars, My Review to Come

✔︎N 11 Bookie Awards 2011 Nominee
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
470 p., Apr 22/16, 5 stars, My Review -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎N 12 As Heard On W&Co. March 31, 2014 or TNC Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience by Monique Gray Smith
207 p., Feb 22/16, 3 stars, My Review to Come
✔︎N 13 FREE / GIMME SQUARE
✔︎N 14 Canadian Author: Int’l Setting
The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
392p., Mar 8/16, 4 stars, My Review to Come
✔︎N 15 LGTBQ Author
The Heart Does Not Bend by Makeda Silvera
272 p., Feb 8/16, 4 stars, My Review to Come

✔G 16 Translated From French
Kuessipan by Naomi Fontaine
144 p., July 3/16, 3 stars, My Review to Come
✔︎G 17 Classic Can Lit
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
224p, Apr 29/16, 4 stars, My Review -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎G 18 Graphic Novel
The Outside Circle by Patti Laboucane-Benson
128 p., Feb 29/16, 4 stars, My Review to Come
✔︎G 19 Bookish Advent
The Douglas Notebooks by Christine Eddie
180 p., Jan 31/16, 4 stars, My Review -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎G 20 War / Military
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
272 p., May 6/16, 4 Stars, My Review -

✔︎O 21 Film, Music, Art Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
403 p., Dec 30/16, 3 Stars My Review to Come
✔︎O 22 Short Story Collection
The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux
246 p., 4 stars, Nov 7, My Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔O 23 Frontier / Western
Quivering Land by Roewan Crowe
182 p., Sept 4/16, 3 stars, My Review to come
✔︎O 24 Animals in Literature Dog on It by Spencer Quinn
305 p., Dec 27/16, 3 stars, My Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔︎O 25 100 Novels
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
368 p., Mar 25/16, 4 stars, My Review to come

BINGO!

I found this group recently, so I have given myself some leeway - for example for monthly group read I counted a book read independently that was also a monthly group read selection.

So happy to have found this group, which has inspired me to focus my reading on Canadian Literature. Cheers!

B 1 - Indigenous Authors
The Break by Katherena Vermette
finished October 26, 2016

B 2 - International Author; Canadian Setting
White Heat by M.J. McGrath
finished November 8, 2016

B 3 - Canada Reads
Bone & Bread by Saleema Nawaz
finished February 22, 2016

B 4 - Recommended by ... someone on this board
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
finished September 24, 2016

B 5 - Canadian Book Awards
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
finished October 4, 2016

I 6 - Monthly Group Read
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
finished June 27, 2016

I 7 – Nonfiction
Canoe Country: The Making of Canada by Roy MacGregor
finished March 19, 2016
also
Canada by Mike Myers
finished October 27, 2016

I 8 - "Best of 2015"
The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
finished November 13, 2016

I 9 - Epic Book
Galore by Michael Crummey
finished November 11, 2016

I 10 - Debut Novel
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
finished April 19, 2016

N 11 - Bookie Awards
Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter
finished February 24, 2016

N 12 - As Heard On W&Co. or TNC
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
finished July 31, 2016

N 13 - FREE

N 14 - Canadian Author; International Setting
Stranger: A Novel by David Bergen
finished September 17, 2016

N 15 - LGTBQ Author
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
finished September 22, 2016
also
The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
finished September 14, 2016

G 16 - Translated From French
The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux
finished September 14, 2016

G 17 - Classic CanLit
Bear by Marian Engel
finished November 9, 2016

G 18 - Graphic Novel
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me by Sarah Leavitt
finished November 15, 2016

G 19 - Bookish Advent
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage by Kathleen Winter
finished November 15, 2016

G 20 - War / Military
The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake
finished April 14, 2016

O 21 - Film, Music, Art
Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese
finished November 17, 2016

O 22 - Short Story Collection
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
finished November 4, 2016
--- counting this one because the 13 stories were so different, and each had a different main character (Liz, Elizabeth, Beth etc).

O 23 - Frontier / Western
The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel by Katherine Govier
finished November 19, 2016

O 24 - Animals in Literature
We're All in This Together by Amy Jones
finished June 3rd 2016
and
Death Valley by Susan Perly
finished September 13, 2016
--- ok these are admittedly a stretch. (shark in the 1st, bunny/hare in the 2nd) I wanted to find a Canadian selection, and am not quite ready to read Green Grass, Running Water or Fifteen Dogs

O 25 - 100 Novels…
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
finished November 14, 2016