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@TheKidUpstairs Though #NYWD22 is over, there are still some titles on your list I‘m planning to read! With the exception of the tagged (Blaze Island), I‘ve purchased all of them — the top in print & the bottom as audiobooks. I‘m not sure *when* it will happen…but it absolutely will.

I‘ll be sure to tag you when I dive in! 🏊‍♀️

This is my #NYWDProgressReport! Feel free to post your own. 😊

So far, I‘ve read (& enjoyed) the top 3 books. By the end of the month, I‘m hoping to finish the bottom 3.

I‘ve already downloaded both Interior Chinatown & The Art of Leaving from Audible.

The final title is a bit uncertain. It will either be Blaze Island or Hamnet, depending on if my request for the former is filled. It‘s not easy to find in the States!

#NYWD22 #NewYearWhoDis

Beautifully evocative novel, inspired by The Tempest, combining themes of climate change, family relations, and isolation. Can we ever really protect those we love? What is the cost of shielding them from the world? What are we leaving behind? How should we live? On a small island off the coast of Newfoundland, these questions and more gather, crash together, and tear apart. Anxiety and uncertainty battle with beauty and nature.

1. Loving the tagged so far.
2. Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
3. Kids are going back to school! 🎉🎉🎉 And I just found out my younger son has a FANTASTIC grade one teacher. She was my oldest's teacher in grade one and asked just so so wonderful at guiding learners through such a big transition year.

A handful of highlights from April are on my blog: https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-2021-reading-round-up.html

A bracing blend of up-to-the-minute climate fiction and Shakespearean drama, the setting of this Canadian novel is based on Fogo Island, which is off the coast of Newfoundland. A father and his daughter have taken refuge on this island but destructive forces are at play. It opens with a breathtaking storm, the narrative is richly layered, the prose is evocative, and the ending is thought-provoking. #CanLit

“There are people out there who don‘t believe ice and snow are weather. We are entering times of dangerous weather and that weather is inside us as well as outside.”

…the icebergs glistened, every colour in the spectrum of blue and green: cobalt, turquoise, aquamarine, emerald. From one angle they looked like one thing, from another something else. As the icebergs turned, they revealed arches, hollows, ponds, fissures. It was hard to know how to describe them other than to compare them to other things: this one‘s a castle, no, no, a dragon.
(Internet photo)