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Hi all - sorry for the delay... what is everyone reading this April?

Just finished Behold the Dreamers and Squire.

Currently reading The Mercy of Gods and Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed.

For Canadian content, I also recently read All the Way: My Life on Ice, which was pretty eye-opening.

I didn't read anything by Canadian authors in March, but am hoping to do better this month.

I just finished One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. It's a slim book that took me a while to finish because there was a lot to think about, and the topic was also upsetting. I'm glad to have read it and will continue pondering it for some time to come.

I'm partway through Simple Recipes, which is my first time reading Thien. I'm only so-so on it. Short stories can be so tricky, and I can never articulate why some collections work for me and others do not.

I have no idea what I'm reading this month. I did a lot of thematically heavy reading for work this past month including Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s, Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals, and Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life and I just haven't had the oomph to read for fun as a result. My mother really wants me to read Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, and I am hoping that might be the kind of cozy reading I need to break out of this funk.

I have so many books on my TBR I decided I will tackle in it bites of 35 books.

From there down to 5 -7 at a time (I read more than one book at a time - just vary the genres)

So reading now:

- BDA Bookclub - Thriller - The Peacock and the Sparrow
- KU Thriller - Finding Nouf
- CAD NF - Sucker Punch: Essays (loved her last book)
- Literary - Yellowface
- High SF - The Well of Ascension + audio
- NF Memoir - Never Finished + audio
- NF - Becoming Bulletproof: Life Lessons from a Secret Service Agent

Check this out - our friend Elinor has a new book!! https://www.cbc.ca/books/finding-flor...

❀ Susan wrote: "Check this out - our friend Elinor has a new book!! https://www.cbc.ca/books/finding-flor..."

How exciting!

Some more Canadian reading this month:

All I Ask - This was fine but it was about a hapless 26-year-old trying to figure her life out, so not really aimed at an old lady like myself. :-)

Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor - A short graphic novel set in Montreal about a woman on maternity leave who is bored and turns unofficial detective.

Pageboy - Elliot Page's memoir. I was mixed on this one. A lot was divulged and yet I felt like it never really got to the heart of things. I was left wanting more.

Karin wrote: "❀ Susan wrote: "Check this out - our friend Elinor has a new book!! https://www.cbc.ca/books/finding-flor..."

How exciting!"

Thank you so much, Susan! You can imagine how thrilled I was when the book debuted in the number one spot in Canada for Canadian fiction! And it’s still on the bestseller list three weeks later. I’m pinching myself!

That is so awesome!!! Perhaps this should be a group read!!! :)

will you be doing any book events in Ontario?

❀ Susan wrote: "That is so awesome!!! Perhaps this should be a group read!!! :)

I read this book and loved it!!

Congratulations Elinor! I’m putting it on my to read list.

❀ Susan wrote: "That is so awesome!!! Perhaps this should be a group read!!! :)

will you be doing any book events in Ontario?"

I hope to visit Toronto in September. My complete events schedule is on my website, easy to find. Would love to meet you in person, Susan!

That is terrific - I will look up the date and maybe we can do a meet up!!!

Elinor,congratulations. Was your book submitted for the Gillers this year? I’m asking because I don’t understand their submission requirements. I think the Ggs look at everything published in the country but I know the Gillers don’t. Any ideas?