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🍁√ B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Completed August 23, 2017
5*
√ B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
Minds of Winter (NWT) by Ed O'Loughlin
Completed August 18, 2017
3.5*
√ B3 - Canadian Memoir
The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Completed February 3, 2017
3*
√ B4- A Banned Book
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Completed October 23, 2017
4.5*
√ B5 - Canada Reads 2017
Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji
Completed February 25, 2017
3.5*
√ I1 - Booked turned into a movie:
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
Completed January 27, 2017
5*
√ I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author
The Break by Katherena Vermette
Completed March 7, 2017
4*
√ I3 - YA
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Completed April 27, 2017
4*
√ I4 - Written by LGBTQ author:
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Completed January 19, 2016
5*
√ I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Completed January 23, 2017
4*
√ N1 - Past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel
The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
Completed June 13, 2017
3*
√ N2 - Non-Fiction
A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life by Bill Mesler
Completed March 21, 2016
5*
√ N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel
The Glace Bay Miners' Museum: The Novel by Sheldon Currie
Completed August 26, 2017
5*
√ N4 - Audio book
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
Completed February 10, 2017
5*
√ N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
Completed February 16, 2017
3*
√ G1 - Canadian Mystery
Still Life by Louise Penny
Completed May 27, 2017
4*
√ G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee
Completed September 2, 2017
2*
√ G3 - Book Published in 2017
Juliet's Answer: One Man's Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak by Glenn Dixon
Completed June 26, 2017
3.5*
√ G4 - Translated novel
Next Episode by Hubert Aquin
Completed May 30, 2017
2*
√ G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can):
Knucklehead by Matt Lennox
Completed January 5, 2017
3*
√ O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born
Crackpot: A Novel
Completed Dec 15, 2017
5*
√ O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
Company Town by Madeline Ashby
Completed February 11, 2017
2*
√ O3 - A book of poetry
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Completed July 14, 2017
2*
√ O4 - A Canadian Classic
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Completed April 20, 2017
4*
√ O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian:
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin
Completed January 15, 2017
4*
19/25 Completed...https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipxtlznsovu...
I will update as I finish
B1 - Six Metres of Pavement... - COMPLETED
B2 - The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
B3 - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth...- COMPLETED
B4 - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz OR The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
B5 - Sleeping Giants... - COMPLETED
I1 - Someone Knows My Name
I2 - Wenjack... - COMPLETED
I3 - When Everything Feels Like the Movies... - COMPLETED
I4 -Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel... - COMPLETED
I5 - Company Town... - COMPLETED
N1 - The Orenda OR The Illegal
N2 - One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter - COMPLETED
N3 - The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders... - COMPLETED
N4 - A Man Called Ove... -COMPLETED
N5 - Do Not Say We Have Nothing OR The Polished Hoe OR Minister Without Portfolio OR By Gaslight
G1 - The Thin Black Line... - COMPLETED
G2 - The Amazing Absorbing Boy... - COMPLETED
G3 - Home - COMPLETED
G4 - Betty Boo and Canadian author Twenty-One Cardinals - COMPLETED
G5 - A Prayer for Owen Meany OR The Unquiet Dead... - COMPLETED
O1 - The Autobiography of Malcolm X - COMPLETED
O2 - The Sisters Brothers OR The Cowboy and the Cossack... OR The Quick - COMPLETED
O3 - The Circle Game: Poems OR The Door...- COMPLETED BOTH
O4 - Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel - COMPLETED
O5 - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference OR Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
✓B 1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be CanadianBook: Certainty
Author: Madeleine Thien 🍁
Page count: 320
Date read: October 3-11, 2017
Rating: ★★★
✓ B 2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
Book: Bone & Bread
Author: Saleema Nawaz 🍁
Page count: 424
Date read: January 15-21, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: Takes place partially in Montreal, a city which I've always wanted to visit.
✓ B 3 - Canadian Memoir
Book: Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid became Tyrrell of the North
Author: Heather Robertson 🍁
Page count: 360
Date read: Oct. 31 - Dec. 7, 2017
Rating: ★★★
Connection to the square: A biography of geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell.
✓ B 4- A Banned Book
Book: This One Summer
Author: Jillian Tamaki 🍁
Page count: 320
Date read: October 3, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: Challenged for inappropriate language and mature themes in Minnesota.
✓ B 5 - Canada Reads 2017
Book: The Break
Author: Katharena Vermette 🍁
Page count: 350
Date read: April 17-19, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Review: On my blog
Connection to the square: Longlisted for Canada Reads 2017, eliminated in first round.
✓I 6 - Booked turned into a movie
Book: Carmilla
Author: J. Sheridan le Fanu
Page count: 124
Date read: October 28-29, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Review: On my blog
Connection to the square: Not a Canadian book but was adapted into a Canadian webseries and movie.
✓ I 7 - Written by an Indigenous Author
Book: This Accident of Being Lost
Author: Leanne Simpson 🍁
Page count: 152
Date read: October 1-3, 2017
Rating: ★★★★★
Connection to the square: Leanne Simpson is of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry and a member of Alderville First Nation.
✓ I 8 - YA
Book: Son of a Trickster
Author: Eden Robinson 🍁
Page count: 336
Date read: February 10-23, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Review: On my blog
✓ I 9 - Written by LGBTQ author
Book: She of the Mountains
Author: Vivek Shraya 🍁
Page count: 128
Date read: January 3, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: Vivek Shraya is a trans woman of colour, who also identifies as bisexual.
✓ I 10 - Sci-fi/dystopia/apocalyptic novel
Book: The Just City
Author: Jo Walton 🍁
Page count: 368
Date read: January 19-23, 2017
Rating: ★★★★★
Connection to the square: Sci-fi, time-travel philosophy story set in Ancient Greece.
✓ N 11 - Past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel
Book: Whylah Falls
Author: George Elliott Clarke 🍁
Page count: 202
Date read: October 11 - November 10, 2017
Rating: ★★
Connection to the square: Shortlisted for Canada Reads 2016.
✓ N 12 - Non-Fiction
Book: Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
Author: Kamal Al-Solaylee 🍁
Page count: 336
Date read: January 27 - March 16, 2016
Rating: ★★★
Connection to the square: A non-fiction book about race and racial identity regarding brownness.
✓ N 13 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel
Book: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Author: Elizabeth Smart 🍁
Page count: 128
Date read: February 10-11, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: Read this for bingo last year and loved it.
✓ N 14 - Audio book
Book: Fifteen Dogs
Author: André Alexis 🍁
Page count: N/A
Date read: March 19-29, 2017
Rating: ★★★★★
Review: On my blog
Connection to the square: Audiobook read by author.
✓ N 15- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner
Book: The Love of a Good Woman
Author: Alice Munro 🍁
Page count: 304
Date read: October 3 - December 30, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: Winner of the 1998 Giller Prize.
✓G 16 - Canadian Mystery
Book: Cast in Shadow
Author: Michelle Sagara 🍁
Page count: 507
Date read: July 10-11, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Review: On my blog
Connection to the square: Urban fantasy murder mystery.
✓ G 17 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
Book: Mãn
Author: Kim Thúy 🍁
Page count: 139
Date read: August 9-14, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: Main character immigrates from Vietnam.
✓ G 18 - Book Published in 2017
Book: The Change Room
Author: Karen Connelly 🍁
Page count: 352
Date read: July 20-22, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: Published April 2017
✓ G 19 - Translated novel
Book: Kuessipan
Author: Naomi Fontaine 🍁
Page count: 144
Date read: May 12-13, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: Translated from French
✓G 20 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can)
Book: Skin Like Mine
Author: Garry Gottfriedson 🍁
Page count: 120
Date read: June 1-2, 2017
Rating: ★★★★★
Connection to the square: Written by a BC author, and set local to the region I grew up in.
✓O 21 -Canadian novel published the year you were born
Book: Brown Girl in the Ring
Author: Nalo Hopkinson 🍁
Page count: 281
Date read: March 1-11, 2017
Rating: ★★★
Connection to the square: Published in the 90s.
✓ O 22 - A book outside your comfort zone
Book: The Best Kind of People
Author: Zoe Whittall 🍁
Page count: 404
Date read: 2016
Rating: ★★★★
Review: On my blog
Connection to the square: Not usually a fan of books about well-off people's lives taking a dramatic turn.
✓ O 23 - A book of poetry
Book: Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes
Author: Jane Eaton Hamilton 🍁
Page count: 95
Date read: January 1-4, 2016
Rating: ★★★★★
Connection to the square: Poetry collection.
✓ O 24 - A Canadian Classic
Book: The Essential P.K. Page
Author: P.K. Page 🍁
Page count: 59
Date read: June 5-7, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Connection to the square: P.K. Page is one of Canada's best known and celebrated poets.
✓ O 25 - A Book from the CBC 100 Non-fiction books that make you proud to be Canadian
Book: The Year of Finding Memory
Author: Judy Fong Bates 🍁
Page count: 304
Date read: December 6-31, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
I'm in....B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian The Outlander (own)
B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
B3 - Canadian Memoir - Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found
B4- A Banned Book
B5 - Canada Reads 2017
I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author Indian Horse OR The Orenda
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author: Douglas Coupland
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel
N4 - Audio book
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada - Under This Unbroken Sky
O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born The Watch that Ends the Night (1958), The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957)
O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
O3 - A book of poetry
O4 - A Canadian Classic
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian Stolen Life: Journey Of A Cree Woman (own)
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✓ B 1 - 100 Books that Make you Proud to be Canadian
• Title: Three Day Road
• Author: Joseph Boyden 🍁
• Page count: 384
• Date read: July 29, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: From CBC's 100 Books that Make You Proud to be Canadian
✓ B 2 - Book From a Province / Territory You Want to Visit
• Title: Hag-Seed
• Author: Margaret Atwood 🍁
• Page count: 301
• Date read: March 1, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: This book takes place in Ontario, a province I haven't visited since 2008.
✓ B 3 - Canadian Memoir
• Title: One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
• Author: Scaachi Koul 🍁
• Page count: 288
• Date read: May 8, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, "a land of ice and casual racism," by the cultural observer, Scaachi Koul.
✓ B 4 - A Banned Book
• Title: The Book of Negroes
• Author: Lawrence Hill 🍁
• Page count: 512
• Date read: April 9, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...#
• Connection to the square: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/02/freed...
✓ B 5 - Canada Reads 2017
• Title: Fifteen Dogs
• Author: André Alexis 🍁
• Page count: 171
• Date read: March 22, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: 2017 Canada Reads winner
✓ I 1 - Book Turned Into a Movie
• Title: Alias Grace
• Author: Margaret Atwood 🍁
• Page count: 592
• Date read: September 1, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Adapted for television, debuting Sept. 25 on CBC and Nov. 3 on Netflix globally outside of Canada.
✓ I 2 - Indigenous Author
• Title: The Break
• Author: Katherena Vermette 🍁
• Page count: 350
• Date read: March 8, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Vermette is of Metis descent.
✓ I 3 - YA
• Title: Seraphina
• Author: Rachel Hartman 🍁
• Page count: 499
• Date read: January 25, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Rachel Hartman lives and writes in Vancouver, BC. Seraphina was a finalist for the Canadian 2012 Governor General's Literary Award in the category of Children's Text.
✓ I 4 - LGBTQ Author
• Title: The Wonder
• Author: Emma Donoghue 🍁
• Page count: 291
• Date read: March 20, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: The author identities as lesbian.
✓ I 5 - Sci-fi / Dystopia / Apocolyptic
• Title: Nostalgia
• Author: M.G. Vassanji 🍁
• Page count: 258
• Date read: February 11, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: A novel about a future where eternal life is possible, and identities can be chosen.
✓ N 1 - Canada Reads (Past)
• Title: Lullabies for Little Criminals
• Author: Heather O'Neill 🍁
• Page count: 330
• Date read: April 29, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: 2007 Canada Reads winner
✓ N 2 - Non-Fiction
• Title: Outliers: The Story of Success
• Author: Malcolm Gladwell 🍁
• Page count: 309
• Date read: January 4, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Malcolm Gladwell is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City.
✓ N 3 - Favourite Canadian Novel
• Title: Random Passage
• Author: Bernice Morgan 🍁
• Page count: 272
• Date read: July 23, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: I first read this book in high school and LOVED it.
✓ N 4 - Audiobook
• Title: The Choices We Make
• Author: Karma Brown 🍁
• Page count: 316
• Date read: March 7, 2017
• Rating: ★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Audiobook narrated By Cassandra Campbell & Jorjeana Marie.
✓ N 5 - Giller Prize
• Title: The Best Kind of People
• Author: Zoe Whittall 🍁
• Page count: 404
• Date read: January 8, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist
✓ G 1 – Canadian Mystery
• Title: Dead Cold a.k.a. A Fatal Grace
• Author: Louise Penny 🍁
• Page count: 416
• Date read: May 17, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Louise Penny, a former CBC radio journalist, is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of twelve Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels.
✓ G 2 – Book about someone immigrating to Canada
• Title: Ru
• Author: Kim Thúy 🍁
• Page count: 141
• Date read: August 21, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Ru tells the story of a family's escape from Vietnam to Quebec.
✓G 3 – Book Published in 2017
• Title: The Lonely Hearts Hotel
• Author: Heather O'Neill 🍁
• Page count: 400
• Date read: June 5, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Published February 7, 2017.
✓ G 4 – Translated Novel
• Title: Nikolski
• Author: Nicolas Dickner 🍁
• Page count: 304
• Date read: June 19, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Nikolski was originally published in French and translated to English.
✓ G 5 – Book written in your province/territory
• Title: Kit's Law
• Author: Donna Morrissey 🍁
• Page count: 383
• Date read: August 9, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Donna Morrissey is from Newfoundland.
✓O 1 – Canadian novel published the year you were born
• Title: Bodily Harm (first published 1981)
• Author: Margaret Atwood 🍁
• Page count: 280
• Date read: October 20, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: First published in 1981, the year I was born.
✓ O 2 – A book outside your comfort zone
• Title: Infinity
• Author: Ellen Louise Curtis & Matthew Ledrew 🍁
• Page count: 312
• Date read: July 6, 2017
• Rating: ★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Challenging myself to read more Newfoundland authors, particularly those who haven't much notoriety in the literary world.
✓ O 3 - Book of Poetry
• Title: House of Mystery
• Author: Courtney Bates-Hardy 🍁
• Page count: 120
• Date read: January 1, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Debut collection of poems by Canadian poet Courtney Bates-Hardy.
✓ O 4 – A Canadian classic
• Title: Owls in the Family
• Author: Farley Mowat 🍁
• Page count: 112
• Date read: March 24, 2017
• Rating: ★★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: Owls in the Family is a children's novel written by Farley Mowat first published in 1961.
✓O 5 – 100 True Stories that Make you Proud to be Canadian
• Title: The Game
• Author: Ken Dryden 🍁
• Page count: 320
• Date read: October 10, 2017
• Rating: ★★★
• Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
• Connection to the square: From CBC's 100 True Stories that Make you Proud to be Canadian
B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be CanadianTitle: Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
Dates read: April 6 - 18
Rating/review: 4 stars
Connection:
B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to VisitTitle: The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
Dates read: June 9 - 19
Rating/review: 3.5 stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Set in British Columbia (Vancouver)
B3 - Canadian MemoirTitle:The Game by Ken Dryden
Dates read: Jan 3 - 19
Rating/review: 4 stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
B4- A Banned BookTitle: The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
Dates read: April 26 - May 5
Rating/review: 4 stars
Connection:
B5 - Canada Reads 2017Title: Company Town - Madeline Ashby
Dates read: March 8 - 10
Rating/review: 4 stars
Connection: Shortlist 2017 Canada Reads
I1 - Booked turned into a movie Title: The Rehearsal by Eleanor CattonDates read: Jan. 24 - Feb 2
Rating/review: 4/5 stars
Connection: Presented at Toronto International Film Festival in 2016
I2 - Written by an Indigenous AuthorTitle: The Break - Katherena Vermette
Dates read: Feb 6 - 27
Rating/review: 5 Star
Connection:
I3 - YA Title: Baygirl by Heather Smith
Dates read: May 26 - 27
Rating/review:3 stars
Connection:
I4 - Written by LGBTQ authorTitle: Slammerkin - Emma Donoghue
Dates read: March 13 - 23
Rating/review: 5 stars
Connection:
I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novelTitle: Nostalgia - M.G. Vassanji
Dates read:Jan 31 - Feb 6
Rating/review:4 stars
Connection:
N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel http://www.cbc.ca/books/CRpreviouswin...Title: Rockbound - Frank Parker Day
Dates read: April 18 - 24
Rating/review: 4 Stars
Connection: Won CR 2007
N2 - Non-FictionTitle: Impact to Contact: The Shag Harbour Incident - Graham Simms
Dates read: April 6 - June 3
Rating/review:3 stars
Connection:
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian NovelTitle: Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Dates read:
Rating/review:
Connection:
N4 - Audio bookTitle:The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Dates read: Feb 22
Rating/review: 3 stars
Connection: Abridged audio streamed on BBC radio. (may switch this out with something else)
N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winnerTitle: The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
Dates read: Jan 19 - 24
Rating/review: 4.5 stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: Shortlisted for 2016
G1 - Canadian MysteryTitle: Gold Fever (A Klondike Mystery) - Vicki Delaney
Dates read: May 27 - June 9
Rating/Review: 3 stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to CanadaTitle:The Piano Maker by Kurt Palka
Dates read: Jan 27 - 31
Rating/review: 4/5 stars
Connection: Protagonist moves from Saigon to Montreal
G3 - Book Published in 2017Title:The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
Dates read: March 17 - 28
Rating/review: 4 stars
Connection:
G4 - Translated novel Title: Ru - Kim Thúy
Dates read: Feb 23 - 28
Rating/review: 4 stars
Connection:
G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can)Title:Chloe Sparrow by Lesley Crewe
Dates read: April 6 - 17
Rating/review: 3 stars
Connection: Author from NS and book based in Cape Breton, NS
O1 -Canadian novel published the year you were born (1959)Title: The Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan
Dates read: Sept. 9 - Oct. 11
Rating/review: 3.5 stars (downgraded to 3 for GR) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Connection: https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...
O2 - A book outside your comfort zoneTitle: Fifteen Dogs - André Alexis
Dates read: Feb. 13 - 18
Rating/review: 2 / 5 review here
Connection:
O3 - A book of poetryTitle:Runaway Dreams by Richard Wagamese
Dates read: March 28 - April 6
Rating/review: 2 stars
Connection:
O4 - A Canadian ClassicTitle: The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Dates read: March 30 - April 6
Rating/review: 5 stars
Connection:
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 Non-fiction books that make you proud to be Canadian Title: Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
Dates read: Jan. 7 - 26
Rating/review: 3/5 stars
Connection: On the list
COMPLETED NOV 26, 2017B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian
Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Dates read: March 5 - March 9
Page count: 190
Rating: 4 stars
B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
Cool Water by Dianne Warren
Dates read: June 27 - July 2
Page count: 328
Rating: 4 stars
B3 - Canadian Memoir
Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother by Helen Humphreys
Dates read: Sept 15 - Oct 1
Page count: 198
Rating: 5 stars
B4 - A Banned Book
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Dates read: May 12 - June 1
Page count: 538
Rating: 4 stars
Notes: Not available in Canada due to libel chill
B5 - Canada Reads 2017
The Break by Katherena Vermette
Dates read: March 2 - March 7
Page count: 350
Rating: 4 stars
I1 - Book turned into a movie
The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe
Dates read: April 15 - April 18
Page count: 384
Rating: 4 stars
I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin
Dates read: Jan 21 - Jan 28
Page count: 352
Rating: 3 stars
I3 - YA
Scott Pilgrim, Volume 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Dates read: March 13 - March 21
Page count: 222
Rating: 3 stars
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author
Heyday by Marnie Woodrow
Dates read: May 10 - May 17
Page count: 275
Rating: 4 stars
I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel
American War by Omar El Akkad
Dates read: Sept 7 - Sept 13
Page count: 334
Rating: 4 stars
N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel
The Age of Hope by David Bergen
Dates read: July 19 - July 24
Page count: 287
Rating: 4 stars
Notes: Shortlisted in 2013, defended by Ron MacLean
N2 - Non-Fiction
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein
Dates read: August 22 - September 9
Page count: 272
Rating: 3 stars
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dates read: October 23 - November 2
Page count: 358
Rating: 5 stars
N4 - Audio book
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
Dates read: July 19 - July 22
Listening length: 5 hours, 30 minutes
Rating: 3 stars
N5- Giller Prize short list, long list, or winner
Next Year, for Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
Dates read: Sept 22 - Sept 26
Page count: 256
Rating: 4 stars
Notes: Longlisted in 2017
G1 - Canadian Mystery
The Taken by Inger Ash Wolfe
Dates read: Aug 18 - Aug 22
Page count: 415
Rating: 4 stars
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
Madame Zee by Pearl Luke
Dates read: June 4 - June 12
Page count: 400
Rating: 3 stars
Notes: Protagonist emigrates from England to the Prairies
G3 - Book Published in 2017
Little Sister by Barbara Gowdy
Dates read: May 29 - June 3
Page count: 300
Rating: 3 stars
G4 - Translated novel
Boundary: The Last Summer by Andrée A. Michaud
Dates read: Nov 13 - Nov 22
Page count: 332
Rating: 4 stars
Notes: Translated from French by Donald Winkler
G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state
Holding Still For As Long As Possible by Zoe Whittall
Dates read: July 31 - August 13
Page count: 312
Rating: 3 stars
O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born
The Last of the Crazy People by Timothy Findley
Dates read: Nov 23 - Nov 26
Page count: 282
Rating: 3 stars
Notes: Published in 1967
O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji
Dates read: March 18 - March 25
Page count: 258
Rating: 3 stars
Notes: Sci fi!
O3 - A book of poetry
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman
Dates read: Jan 4 - Jan 7
Page count: 111
Rating: 4 stars
O4 - A Canadian Classic
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Dates read: July 8 - July 18
Page count: 396
Rating: 5 stars
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian
On the Farm by Stevie Cameron
Dates read: Jan 1 - Jan 11
Page count: 726
Rating: 4 stars
✔B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be CanadianThe Amazing Absorbing Boy✔B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to VisitSweetland
✔B3 - Canadian Memoir: One Native Life
✔B4- A Banned Book The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
✔B5 - Canada Reads 2017 Nostalgia
✔I1 - Booked turned into a movie Alias Grace
✔I2 - Written by an Indigenous AuthorRagged Company
✔I3 - When Everything Feels Like the Movies
✔I4 - Written by LGBTQ author Cereus Blooms at Night
✔I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel Company Town
✔N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novelMinister Without Portfolio
✔N2 - Non-FictionInto the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
✔N3 - Your Favourite Canadian NovelThe Virgin Cure
✔N4 - Audio book: Ape House
✔N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner:13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
✔G1 - Canadian MysteryThe Wonder
✔G2 - Book about someone immigrating to CanadaUnder This Unbroken Sky
✔G3 - Book Published in 2017: The Lonely Hearts Hotel
✔G4 - Translated novel Twenty-One Cardinals
✔G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state The Break
✔O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were bornNever Cry Wolf
✔O2 - A book outside your comfort zone The Penelopiad
✔O3 - A book of poetry North End Love Songs
✔O4 - A Canadian Classic Fifth Business
✔O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
DONE - B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian – Bear - Read March 2017DONE - B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit – Caught (NFL) - Read April 2017
DONE - B3 - Canadian Memoir – Common Ground - Read March 2017
DONE - B4- A Banned Book – Go Ask Alice
DONE B5 - Canada Reads 2017 - Company Town Read May 2017
DONE - I1 - Booked turned into a movie – Barney's Version
DONE I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author –Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History - Read February 2017
DONE I3 - YA - When Dimple Met Rishi - Read June 2017
DONE I4 - Written by LGBTQ author – Even this Page is White - Read June 2017
DONE I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel –Salt Fish Girl - Read April 2017
DONE - N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel – Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Read June, 2017
DONE N2 - Non-Fiction – Embers - Richard Wagamese - Ready April 2017
DONE N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel - The Republic of Love
DONE N4 - Audio book - Confessions of a Domestic Failure
DONE N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner – Clara Callan - Read August 2017
DONE - G1 - Canadian Mystery –Aloha Candy Hearts - Read June 2017
DONE G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada – Random Passage - Read June 2017
DONE G3 - Book Published in 2017 - Son of a Trickster - Read April 2017
DONE - G4 - Translated novel – How to Make Love to a Negro - Read July 2017
DONE - G5 - Book written in your city – Paper Teeth (Edmonton)
DONE - O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born – Burning Water
DONE O2 - A book outside your comfort zone –Two-Gun & Sun (Western) - Read March 2017
DONE O3 - A book of poetry – North End Love Songs - Read March 2017
DONE O4 - A Canadian Classic – Anne of Green Gables - Read August 2017
DONE O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian – One Native Life
Here are my plans so far:23 of 25 completed - Dec 29, 2017
✔ B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian – Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey
✔ B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit – The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay read Jun 30, 2017
✔ B3 - Canadian Memoir – A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby
✔ B4- A Banned Book – The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood read Jun 21, 2017
✔ B5 - Canada Reads 2017 - The Break by Katherena Vermette
Date read: Apr 5, 2017
✔ I1 - Booked turned into a movie – Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - read Dec 3, 2017
✔ I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author – The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew read (and loved!) Nov 22, 2017
✔ I3 - YA - The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim by Shane Peacock read Aug 7, 2017
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author – Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab or Frog Music
✔ I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel – Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji read Nov 29, 2017
✔ N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel – Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
✔ N2 - Non-Fiction – Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Date Read: Jan 3, 2017
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel - The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis or Life of Pi
✔N4 - Audio book - Unless by Carol Shields finished Dec 5, 2017
✔ N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner – Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson read Nov 2, 2017
✔ G1 - Canadian Mystery – The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton read Jul 20, 2017
✔ G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada – Ru by Kim Thúy read Nov 4, 2017
✔ G3 - Book Published in 2017 - Little Sister by Barbara Gowdy read Aug 28, 2017
✔ G4 - Translated novel – Twenty-One Cardinals
Date Read: Jan 4, 2017
✔ G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can) – Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson
✔ O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born – The Curse of the Viking Grave by Farley Mowat 1967 (1968)
✔ O2 - A book outside your comfort zone – The Acolyte (horror) read Oct 21, 2017
✔ O3 - A book of poetry – The Dream World by Alison Pick
✔ O4 - A Canadian Classic –
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod Jan 17, 2017
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian – Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
2017 Canadian Content Bingo for MJCompleted 25/25
✔B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian
February by Lisa Moore
310 p., Apr 21/17, 3.5 stars
✔B2 - A book from a Province/Territory you want to visit
The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
368 p., Mar 19/17, 3.5 stars
✔B3 - Canadian memoir
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin
352 p., Jan 13/17, 4.0 stars
✔B4 - A banned book
Bad Medicine: A Judge's Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community by John Reilly
262 p., Apr 15/17, 4.0 stars
✔B5 - Canada Reads 2017
The Break by Katherena Vermette
350 p., Mar 6/17, 4.0 stars
✔I1 - Booked turned into a movie
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired by Dany Laferrière
153 p., Feb 22/17, 3.0 stars
✔I2 - Written by an Indigenous author
Just Pretending by Lisa Bird-Wilson
122 p., Jan 25/17, 4.0 stars
✔I3 - YA
Chasing Freedom by Gloria Ann Wesley
231 p., Feb 20/17, 3.0 stars
✔I4 - Written by LGBTQ author
The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
404 p., Feb 4/17, 3.5 stars
✔I5 - Sci-fi/dystopian/apocalyptic novel
Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji
258 p., Feb 10/17, 4.0 stars
✔N1 - Past longlist or shortlist Canada Reads novel
The Secret Fruit of Peter Paddington: A Novel by Brian Francis
302 p., May 29/17, 3.0 stars
✔N2 - Non-Fiction
Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese
176 p., Mar 24/17, 5.0 stars
✔N3 - Your favourite Canadian novel
Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese
376 p., (reread), May 27/17, 5.0 stars
✔N4 - Audio book
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
171 p., (reread in audio), Apr 6/17, 4.5 stars
✔N5- Giller Prize shortlist/longlist or winner
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
320 p., May 9/17, 5.0 stars
✔G1 - Canadian mystery
Company Town by Madeline Ashby
288 p., Feb 22/17, 4.0 stars
✔G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
240 p., Feb 25/17, 4.0 stars
✔G3 - Book published in 2017
Juliet's Answer: One Man's Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak by Glenn Dixon
272 p., Jan 29/17, 3.5 stars
✔G4 - Translated novel
The Douglas Notebooks by Christine Eddy and Sheila Fischman
180 p., May 31/17, 4.0 stars
✔G5 - Book written in your province/terr/city/state (or country if not in Cda)
Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson
143 p., Feb 13/17, 3.0 stars
✔O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born
A Tree for Poverty by Margaret Laurence
145 p., May 28/17, 3.5 stars
✔O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1 by Hope Nicholson
174 p., Apr 5/17, 4.0 stars
✔O3 - A book of poetry
Even this Page is White by Vivek Shraya
117 p., Apr 9/17 4.0 stars
✔O4 - A Canadian classic
The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
288 p., May 19/17, 3.5 stars
✔O5 - A book from the CBC 100 True Stories that make You Proud to be Canadian
Open Heart, Open Mind by Clara Hughes
228 p., Jan 4/17, 3.5 stars
B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian-The Cellist of Sarajevo/Steven GallowayB2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit-Kit’s Law/Donna Morrissey
B3 - Canadian Memoir-They Called Me Number One/Bev Sellars
B4- A Banned Book-Lives of Girls and Women/Alice Munro
B5 - Canada Reads 2017-
I1 - Booked turned into a movie-Lesser Blessed/Richard Van Camp
I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author-The Right to be Cold/Sheila Watt Cloutier
I3 - YA-Fishtailing/Wendy Phillips
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author-When Everything Feels like the Movies/Raziel Reid
I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocalyptic novel-Company Town/Madeline Ashby
N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel-The Outlander/Gil Adamson
N2 - Non-Fiction-Red Star Tattoo/Sonya Larsen
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel-Handmaid’s Tale/Margaret Atwood
N4 - Audio book-Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women: Crimes Canada: True Crimes That Shocked the Nation, Book 15/Katherine McCarthy
N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner-Do Not Say We Have Nothing/Madeleine Thien
G1 - Canadian Mystery-The Wonder/Emma Donahue
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada-Laughing all the way to the Mosque/Zarqa Nawaz
G3 - Book Published in 2017-The Unmade Bed/Stephen Marche
G4 - Translated novel-The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant/Michel Tremblay
G5 - Book written in your province-Alone in the Classroom/Elizabeth Hay
O1 -Canadian novel published the year you were born-Painted Ladies/H.R. Percy
O2 - A book outside your comfort zone-Two Irish Lads/Gerry Burnie
O3 - A book of poetry-The Improved Binoculars/Irving Layton
O4 - A Canadian Classic-Cabbagetown:A Novel/Hugh Garner
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian-Mordecai/Charles Foran
B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be CanadianB2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
B3 - Canadian Memoir
B4- A Banned Book
B5 - Canada Reads 2017
I1 - Booked turned into a movie
I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author
I3 - YA
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author
I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel
N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel
N2 - Non-Fiction
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel
N4 - Audio book
N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner
G1 - Canadian Mystery
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
G3 - Book Published in 2017
G4 - Translated novel
G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can)
O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born
O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
O3 - A book of poetry
O4 - A Canadian Classic
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian
ONLY 1 LEFT TO GO!!!✔B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian
Title: Essex County
Author: Jeff Lemire
Date Read: Jan 20
✔B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
Title: Yukon: A Wilder PlaceYukon: A Wilder Place
Author:Fritz Mueller
Date Read: Jul 2
✔B3 - Canadian Memoir
Title: The Elephants in My Backyard: A Memoir
Author: Rajiv Surendra
Date Read: Jun 6 - 18
✔B4- A Banned Book
Title: When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Author: Raziel Reid
Date Read: Mar 8 - 15
Connection: Decried as a “values-void novel” by a National Post columnist. Soon after, a group of concerned parents, YA authors, teachers and others started an online petition to revoke the award, citing the book’s “offensive” and “inappropriate” content.
✔B5 - Canada Reads 2017
Title:Company Town
Author: Madeline Ashby
Date Read: Jan 1
Connection: Canada Reads 2017 Longlist
✔I1 - Booked turned into a movie
Title: The Best Kind of People
Author: Zoe Whittall
Date Read: May 17 - 20
Connection: Sarah Polley has optioned the film rights and will write and direct the movie
✔I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author
Title: The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel
Author: Patti Laboucane-Benson
Date Read: Jan 7
✔I3 - YA
Title: This One Summer
Author: Mariko Tamaki
Date Read: Mar 19
✔I4 - Written by LGBTQ author
Title: Even this Page is White
Author: Vivek Shraya
Date Read: May 13 - 14
✔I5 - Sci-fi/dystopia/apocalyptic novel
Title: Tigana
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Date Read: Apr 23 - May 1
✔N1 - Past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel
Title: The Orenda
Author: Joseph Boyden
Date Read: Jan 1-9
Connection: Canada Reads winner 2014
✔N2 - Non-Fiction
Title: One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
Author: Karyn L. Freedman
Date Read: Feb 8 - 10
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel? Favorite, how about one from a favorite Canadian author?
Title:
Author:
Date Read:
✔N4 - Audio book
Title: A Fatal Grace
Author: Louise Penny
Date Read: May 30 - Jun 10
✔N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner
Title: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Author: Mona Awad
Date Read: Feb 28 - Mar 7
Connection: Giller Nominee 2016
✔G1 - Canadian Mystery
Title: The Demonologist
Author: Andrew Pyper
Date Read: Jan 14 - 15
✔G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
Title: Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Author: Kamal Al-Solaylee
Date Read: Jan 21 - 24
✔G3 - Book Published in 2017
Title: Son of a Trickster
Author: Eden Robinson
Date Read: Jan 30 - Feb 4
✔G4 - Translated novel
Title: Winter Child
Author: Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau
Date Read: May 30 - 31
✔G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can)
Title: Happiness
Author: Will Ferguson
Date Read: Mar 7 - 19
✔O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born
Title: In Search of April Raintree
Author: Beatrice Culleton
Date Read: Mar 23 - 30
Connection: Book published in 1983, I was born in 1982
✔O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
Title: Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women
Author: Andrea Routley
Date Read: Jan 31 - Feb 5
Connection: small press publication, topic violence against women
✔O3 - A book of poetry
Title: Peace in Duress
Author: Janet Marie Rogers
Date Read: Jan 11 - 17
✔O4 - A Canadian Classic
Title: The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Author: Margaret Atwood
Date Read: Sept 25
✔O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian
Title: Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Author: Roméo Dallaire
Date Read: May 6 - Jul 7
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√ B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian
Half Blood Blues (Esi Edugyan)
√ B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
√ B3 - Canadian Memoir
The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew
√ B4- A Banned Book
A Jest of God (Margaret Laurence)
√ B5 - Canada Reads 2017
Company Town
√ I1 - Booked turned into a movie
Alias Grace
√ I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
√ I3 - YA
Optimists Die First
√ I4 - Written by LGBTQ author
Holding Still For As Long As Possible
√ I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (finished January 5, 2017)
√N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel
The Outlander (finished July 16, 2017)
√ N2 - Non-Fiction
Everyone's An Artist (or At Least They Should Be): How Creativity Gives You the Edge in Everything You Do
√ N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel
The Handmaid's Tale
√ N4 - Audio book
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
√ N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner
Fifteen Dogs
√ G1 - Canadian Mystery
Still Mine
√ G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
√ G3 - Book Published in 2017
Son of a Trickster
√ G4 - Translated novel
The Tin Flute
√ G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can)
Extraordinary
√ O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born
The Manticore
√ O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
Bear
√ O3 - A book of poetry
Milk and Honey
√ O4 - A Canadian Classic
Rainbow Valley
√ O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian
Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid
B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian Title: No Time for Goodbye
Author: Linwood Barclay
Read: Feb 25, 2017.
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
Title: Invisible Dead
Author: Sam Wiebe
Read: Jan 13, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
B3 - Canadian Memoirs
Title: How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
Author: Amber Dawn
Read: March 3, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
B4- A Banned Book
Title: Hey Dad!
Author: Brian Doyle
Read: Feb 23, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
B5 - Canada Reads 2017
Title: Sleeping Giants
Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Read: Jan 26 2017
Rated: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
I1 - Booked turned into a movie
Title: The Lesser Blessed
Author: Richard Van Camp
Read: Feb 23, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author
Title: Nobody Cries at Bingo
Author: Dawn Dumont
Read: Feb 17, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
I3 - YA
Title: Every Hidden Thing
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Read: Feb 20, 2017
Rated: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author
Title: She of the Mountains
Author: Vivek Shraya
Read: Feb 2 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel
Title: Company Town
Author: Madeline Ashby
Read: Jan 28 2017
Rated: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel
Title: Nostalgia
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Read: March 21, 2017
Rated: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
N2 - Non-Fiction
Title: The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
Author: Afua Cooper
Read: March 26, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel
Title: The English Patient
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Read: March 16, 2017
Rated: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
N4 - Audio book
Title: Fifteen Dogs
Author: André Alexis
Read: Feb 7 2017
Rated: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner
Title: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Author: Madeleine Thien
Read: Feb 11 2017
Rated: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
G1 - Canadian Mystery
Title: Deadly Appearances
Author: Gail Bowen
Read: Feb 12 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
The Bone Collector's Son
Author: Paul Yee
Read: Feb 24, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
G3 - Book Published in 2017
Title: Son of a Trickster
Author: Eden Robinson
Read: Feb 22, 2017
Rated: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
G4 - Translated novel
Title: Mãn
Author: Kim Thúy
Read: Feb 5 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can) (Montana, USA)
Title: The Apothecary
Author: Maile Meloy
Read: Feb 6 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born
Title: Tempest-Tost
Author: Robertson Davies
Read: Feb 28, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
Title: Haunting Violet
Author: Alyxandra Harvey
Read: Feb 25, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
O3 - A book of poetry
Title: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Read: March 22, 2017
Rated: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
O4 - A Canadian Classic
Title: Volkswagen Blues
Author: Jacques Poulin
Read: March 12, 2017
Rated: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian
Title: Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Author: Edmund Metatawabin
Read: Jan 18 2017
Rated: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian Alias GraceB2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit
B3 - Canadian Memoir Extended Families: A Memoir of India
B4- A Banned Book The Handmaid's Tale
B5 - Canada Reads 2017-
I1 - Booked turned into a movie
I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author Black Apple
I3 - YA Julia Defiant
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author
I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocalyptic novel Julia Vanishes
N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel Birdie
N2 - Non-Fiction One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel
N4 - Audiobook
N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner Oryx and Crake
G1 - Canadian Mystery The Girl in Saskatoon: A meditation on Friendship, Memory, and Murder
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada
G3 - Book Published in 2017 A Place You'll Never Be
G4 - Translated novel
G5 - Book written in your province breathing at dusk
O1 -Canadian novel published the year you were born
O2 - A book outside your comfort zone
O3 - A book of poetry Witness, I Am
O4 - A Canadian Classic
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian
B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian: Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani MootooB2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit: Today I Learned It Was You by Edward Riche
B3 - Canadian Memoir:Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin
B4- A Banned Book: Hey Dad! by Brian Doyle
B5 - Canada Reads 2017: The Break Katherena Vermette
I1 - Booked turned into a movie:The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author: Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese
I3 - YA: The Gift Is in the Making by Leanne Simpson
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author: First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon
I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel: The Power by Naomi Alderman
N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel:Childhood by André Alexis
N2 - Non-Fiction: On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel: Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
N4 - Audio book: Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions by Pema Chödrön
N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner: I Am a Truck by Michelle Winters
G1 - Canadian Mystery: Company Town by Madeline Ashby
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada: Under This Unbroken Skyby Shandi Mitchell
G3 - Book Published in 2017: The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep by Steven Heighton
G4 - Translated novel: [book:Six Degrees of Freedom by Nicolas Dickner|861580]
G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can): Canoe Crossings: Understanding the Craft that Helped Shape British Columbia by Sanford Osler
O1 -Canadian novel published the year you were born
O2 - A book outside your comfort zone: I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
O3 - A book of poetry: ongoing repairs to something significant by Linda King
O4 - A Canadian Classic
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 Non-fiction books that make you proud to be Canadian: Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
Roméo Dallaire
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Here is my plan - 3 squares incomplete(
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My plan: B1 - A book from CBC 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian - Lullabies for Little Criminals
B2 - A Book from a Province/Territory You Want to Visit The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
B3 - Canadian Memoir Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
B4- A Banned Book The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
B5 - Canada Reads 2017 Company Town
I1 - Booked turned into a movie Alias Grace
I2 - Written by an Indigenous Author The Break
I3 - YA Son of a Trickster
I4 - Written by LGBTQ author The Best Kind of People
I5 - sci-fi/dystopia/apocolyptic novel Nostalgia
N1 - past long or shortlist Canada Reads novel Half Blood Blues
N2 - Non-Fiction Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land
N3 - Your Favourite Canadian Novel I Am a Truck * While we were supposed to reread a favourite book we had probably previously discovered, I LOVE this book and did read it twice back-to-back. I hope this this counts! :)
N4 - Audio book Sweetland
N5- Giller Prize short-list/longlist or winner Brother
G1 - Canadian Mystery The Hidden Keys
G2 - Book about someone immigrating to Canada The Amazing Absorbing Boy
G3 - Book Published in 2017 Minds of Winter
G4 - Translated novel Ru
G5 - Book written in your province/territory/city/state (or country if not in Can) Kin
O1 -Canadian novel published the year or decade that you were born Surfacing
O2 - A book outside your comfort zone Bear
O3 - A book of poetry Hard Light
O4 - A Canadian Classic The Handmaid's Tale
O5 - A Book from the CBC 100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian Open Heart, Open Mind
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Books mentioned in this topic
Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD (other topics)Cereus Blooms at Night (other topics)
The Manticore (other topics)
I Am a Truck (other topics)
Childhood: A Novel (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Roméo Dallaire (other topics)Shani Mootoo (other topics)
André Alexis (other topics)
Michelle Winters (other topics)
Farley Mowat (other topics)
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Please note that this thread is for plans ONLY and commentary is in the other thread. :)