pickFriday Reads August 4: Canadian authors; queer lit; comics; women in translation; literary awards
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pickFriday Reads August 4: Canadian authors; queer lit; comics; women in translation; literary awards
https://youtu.be/6ER2x1fPnuo
so-soFelicia and her teenage son Army live in Oliver‘s basement apartment, and when his kids Heather and Hendrix come to visit for the summer, things start to get interesting for Army.
Read June 19-30
Rated 3/5 ⭐️
Book 31/60
Thanks for the tag @runswithscissors007 Here are my #Top6Reads This was a tough choice as it‘s been a great reading year so far (one plus of pandemic life 😂)!
@Kimberlone @vivastory tagging you in case you‘d like to share your picks if you haven‘t already.
25 books read this year
5 Black authors (20%)
2 Indigenous authors (8%)
1 NBPOC author (4%)
1 LGBTQIA+ author (4%)
#IntegrateYourshelf
pickIs it wrong to want my UBC student daughter (not a creative writing major) to talk her way into Williams‘ class so that she can introduce me? Okay, YES IT IS, but so in love with this book and impressed with this writer. This was a literary page turner for me - totally consuming story, characters, and clever, inventive, witty style. How does a thing that seems so light, so effortless hit you so hard in the gut? Like a velvet hammer. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Saturday night reading view (I may be hanging out with my as yet unwrapped Christmas present while my husband is out)
I‘m halfway through this one and feel the writing in the second half is much stronger than the first. Like this line a lot.
Two questions 1 - Do you find it hard to like a book when the writing is very writerly and takes you out of the story? 2 - Do you enjoy it when the main character is a flaming asshole?
Me: 1 - Hell no 2 - Sometimes
so-soSo-So and a Pan. Experimental styles throughout and a shitty character named Edgar. Did not like him. Unfortunately another story that is just not doing it for me. 😟
