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I was going to focus on reading books I owned until the new year and put no new books on hold. Then I went to the library. None of these books were on hold! I have a problem! Help me!

Took a Netflix break cause I was tired, so now I'm switching to The Conjoined for some creepiness 😱📚😁

#24in48 #diversebooks

This was an un-putdownable book that was part family drama and part mystery (although you don't get the tidy resolution you do in traditional mystery). The characters were expertly drawn, all authentic and sympathetic, all far from perfect. Jen Sookfong Lee's writing is incisive, thoughtful, and generous. And set in Vancouver! The audiobook voice actor was pitch perfect. Great for fans of Megan Abbott. #AwesomeAudiobooks #CanLit

I am usually reading a few books at a time, but this is the #CurrentRead that I'm the most invested in. I was excited to find this in audiobook on Overdrive, as #CanLit is pretty scarce there. I am totally enthralled with this family drama / mystery / thriller that delves into multi-generational stories in Vancouver. Jen Sookfong Lee's writing is incisive, thoughtful, honest, perceptive. #Riotgrams

Today's thrift store book buys. Forgot to post yesterday's - guess that's next up ;)

Overall I enjoyed this listen. I really liked Jessica's character and I felt she was very relatable. It was a very interesting story and I'd be fascinated to hear how Lee came up with the idea. The only reason I didn't love it more was the story between Wayne and Casey. I didn't think the portrayal was accurate and too much ick factor.

thoroughly enjoyed this. riveting and compelling. and i appreciated the ambiguity of the central mystery. thematically, i thought it spot on. also: a fellow Canadian author! 🍁

I'm loving this book. There are multiple PoVs and in each I find wisdom and relatable longing, concern and questions. It's so good I'm risking the overdue fee to make sure I get through it all. #lifelessons #currentlyreading #libraryborrow

Not many of these around anymore. 🇨🇦

Now for this, and quick! It's due back... today. 😲🙃 I blame the ice/snow storm. 🌬🌧🌨 #currentlyreading

While sorting through her mother‘s belongings, Jessica Campbell and her father find a horrifying discovery — beneath resealable plastic bags with frostbitten meat, in the bottom of her mother‘s chest freezers are the bodies of two dead girls. The two girls are a pair of foster children, Casey and Jamie Cheng, that lived with the family in 1988 — two of the countless foster children her mother had taken in over the years.

There are topics that should make for a thought-provoking book. In this case, the discovery of the bodies of two girls that went missing from foster care system nearly 30 years earlier.

But then an author inserts enough belief-straining melodrama to fill a 1,000 page book, never mind 268 pages, that the book becomes a hot mess (including a chapter attempting to normalize the relationship between a 37 yo man & a 14 yo girl). A wasted opportunity.

When the book you are reading has one too many plot twists and devices, suddenly remembered "memories", and in general stretches the realm of imagination beyond belief. Coming close to being pitched across the room. ?

Mr is stuck in traffic so it looks unlikely date night includes a nice dinner. Consoling myself with a Diet Coke and a new book while I wait. Totally fair, right?

While cleaning out her recently deceased mother's freezer, a young Vancouver social worker finds the bodies of her two foster sisters who had 'run away' when she was ten.

My #holdshaul this week, part one. I'll be luck to get to one of them, but which one?

#BOOKMAIL!!

A grieving woman sorts through her late mother's things and finds the bodies of two girls in the bottom of her mother's freezers. It sounds like a thriller or a crime/mystery type of book. But it's not. Instead it is a book that unravels family secrets, explores immigrant identity and foster families. A gritty honest read by a writer who doesn't shy away from those deep dark thoughts we harbour at the backs of our minds

I hit a hundred for the year so far, YAY!!!

A mystery/thriller that feels incomplete. Great start but not enough for me to say it's a great book or recommend it. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

Gonna hit this one now, still trying to make a dent in my Netgalley pile.

An intriguing and disturbing murder mystery that discusses intergenerational trauma, forgiveness, and social issues of poverty, race, and gendered violence with a critique of white social worker saviours. I didn't like how a sexual relationship between a 14yr old and adult was portrayed positively.

Saw so many of your June reading stats and thought I'd jump in with mine!