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Introducing my latest project: a booktube channel! As you may be aware, I have been greatly limited in my ability to read print and look at screens over the past month, while I am healing from a concussion. But I can still talk! So I have made little videos talking about books and reading. You are invited to hear what I‘ve got to say via this link: https://youtube.com/channel/UCtvMCwkxsmnbqnTghQhg6pw

Reading Envy Podcast Episode 159: Reading Doorways with Lindy. @Lindy

Lindy and Jenny settle in to talk about themselves as readers and what they care most about in the books they read and love. Lindy brings three books up for awards in Alberta, and Jenny brings poems and non-fiction and one novel. We also discuss a few more ideas for the 2019 Reading Envy Summer Reading Challenge

https://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy159

On the brown tips of its ears
the white rabbit
balances spring

“I love what you‘ve done with the place.”
-Castoroides ohioensis

I've been compiling Tim Hortons references in my reading again. Fourth blog post on this topic, featuring four more books (for a total of 22 so far). Check it out here: https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2019/05/tim-hortons-in-canlit-take-4.html

There‘s too many of us here —
we can‘t be seen just standing around!
The foreman pointed with his cigarette,
You four — go hide in that trench!
Shepherd‘s hand on the damp trench wall,
fingers on a vein of clay,
he found a fossilized mollusc,
freshwater clamstone powdery white,
long-buried memory of pelican water
that once covered this place.

I leaned forward to ease my lower back while I was reading. Frida took this as an invitation to climb up. #kittieslovepoetry

I‘m still collecting Tim Hortons references in literature. (Littens, please tag me when you come across them.) Just found one in this poetry book:
“Your right hand might literally not know / what your left is doing. Does one shake / an empty paper Tim Hortons cup?”

(Photo: Timmies cup spotted while I waited for the bus earlier today.)