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Intro

Weekly Highlights

The Buddy Reader from Hell

One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya

Voting Day by Clare O'Dea

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa

Santa Rosa by Wendy McGrath

The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

The Animals by Cary Fagan

Y/N by Esther Yi

"Her mother kept the strawberry extract in the medicine cabinet and the girl liked to open the cabinet door and just look at it sometimes. This clear beautiful red in a glass bottle. She did not think it tasted anything like strawberries though. It was bitter. It stung her throat and stayed on her tongue like a lie." #childprotagonists

Vignettes, almost prose poetry - vividly evokes mid-20th century in a working class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada - told mostly through a child's eyes - the disintegration of a marriage. Melancholic beauty.

What do you do on her feast day? Would Saint Rose visit the neighbourhood? the girl asked.
No she's been dead a long time now her friend said way more than 10 years but you can still pray to her and she might even answer you. Candles help.
But the girl wasn't allowed to light matches.

A mug of green tea and a few more pages of my book before heading out to the ballet this evening. (Need the tea to keep me up for a late night!) #booksandtea

eat one straight from the garden rub the dirt away with her hands dirt actually part of the taste of the thing itself the dirt tastes like the carrot carrot like the dirt everything that grows underground carries that taste with it she would leave the taste of earth on whatever she ate

I've pulled out all the flags marking passages in The Parcel. Now I'll see if they have enough stickiness left for my next book, which is for a book club on Wednesday.