CanadianContent discussion

Wow! March has flown by as we head into April showers!!

What have you finished? What are you reading? What is next?

Good morning everyone! This week I have a couple of books on the go: The Queen's Gambit and Return of the Trickster. I loved the first two Trickster books, but I'm struggling to get into this last one.

Good morning all. I am just on the verge of finishing Inheritance by Dani Shapiro after failing to finish Hench...it just didn’t grab me. There may have also been a dangling carrot that broke my focus as I was really eager to start Inheritance. At some point soon, I will attempt Hench on audio instead. On audio, I am listening to Seven by Farzana Doctor. I am enjoying this although not crazy on the narrator. Enjoy your weekend! Nice to see the rain and mild weather.

Happy Friday!

This week I finished Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused and read two short novels, both of which were just okay. Summerwater was fine but a bit of a let-down after I LOVED this author's Ghost Wall a few years ago. No One Is Talking About This is a book I have very mixed feelings about. There is a lot about social media in this one and that got on my nerves but there is another whole storyline that was very worthwhile. It's hard to talk about this book without spoilers, so I'll leave it at that.

I'm currently reading Dancing After TEN, a graphic memoir I saw on a CBC best-of-2020 list, and A Lucky Man, a collection of short stories.

Good morning, we got a few inches of snow overnight!

I finsihed The Mermaid Chair which was not as good as I expected.

I have started into The Tricking of Freya which is not by a Canadian author, but takes place in my province of Manitoba.

I also just started on For Today I Am a Boy

Happy Friday!! Time for my monthly check in. I did a surprising amount of reading this month:
A Promised Land - it took me a long time to read this one as there is just so much information in it. I'm not into politics, but I learned so much about world affairs from this book. I'll definitely read his next one.
Big Sky - I've never read a Kate Atkinson book I didn't like, and this was no exception. I prefer her historical fiction, but her mysteries are also very good.
The Gown - I came late to this party, but absolutely loved it. Very well written dual time period historical fiction, but as usual I preferred the historical story line to the the modern one.
The Mapmaker's Children - another dual time period historical fiction. The historical part was excellent, the modern part was meh.

Currently I am reading From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way for my local book club. I'm having trouble finding time to read as my cows are busy having babies right now.

@ Gail-I didn't know Kate Atkinson had a series, I will have to check it out

Happy Friday!!

This week I finished The Shadow of the Wind. What a fun read!! It was just great classic storytelling.
Also finished 2 audiobooks, Keep Sharp Audiobook Sanjay Gupta and Geisha, a Life.
Currently reading The Poet and re-listening Know My Name for my virtual book club next week.
Have a great weekend!

Happy Saturday!!

@Heather, The Tricking of Freya sounds amazing. I will have to look for it!

@Gail, what a wonderful reason to be busy! Hope your cows all have easy births!!

I haven't gotten back to Hench yet as I have had a couple of library reads come up.

I am listening to Recipe for a Perfect Wife by the Canadian author Karma Brown. For some reason I expected this to be a bit of a fluff story, but listening as it is a future book club read. It is actually really interesting. Two parallel stories going on about the wife living in the same house, but in two different time periods - the 1950's and current.

I have also finally started The Brothers of Auschwitz. One of my co-workers read it before he visited the area and highly recommended it. Not far in, but so far so good.

Happy Reading!!

Wow. What an abundance of reading everyone's been doing. Unfortunately, I've been going in the opposite direction and reading far less than usual doing covid.

This week I've been reading Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada by Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner. It contains a photo and a synopsis of why and how 30 people immigrated to Canada from all over the world. Am learning lots about the wars people are fleeing from and finding their stories inspiring and uplifting. Each story is short and very impactful.

Omidvar is an internationally recognized voice on migration,
diversity and inclusion. She came to Canada from Iran in 1981 and is currently a Canadian Senator. Dana Wagner is a senior researcher at Ryerson University. She studied journalism and global affairs at other universities and has worked rather globally - in Toronto, Ottawa, Hanoi and Nairobi. Quite a diverse author duo.

Looking forward to finishing the book and meeting and learning more about such a diverse group of people.

Although, I very seldom comment on "Canadian Content", I read it regularly even though pushing my own book was my original reason for joining Goodreads. I suppose that is because I like it that you are not pushing your own books and that I am Canadian. I am fascinated by your Bingo. I don't think I could seriously play it, but I am aware of some of your squares. One square, I gather is a book involving the issue of LGBTQ or having characters fitting that description. I f I am correct, I would like to recommend a book filling that role. It is "Kissing Ezra Holtz (and Other Things I Did for Science)" by Brianna R. Schrum. The protagonist is a Jewish (relevant) bisexual eighteen-year-old girl, Amalia. The important male, Ezra, has two fathers and is not adopted (quite possible, but I'll leave it to the book to tell you how). I quite like the main characters. I a not sure you would like the book anywhere nearly as much a Is did if you didn't like them. Amalia's anxieties didn't annoy me and the low- level sex didn't bore me (More often than not sex interludes, after the first one between two characters, leave me saying to myself, "Get on with the story"). Anyway, I recommend it.