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“We divided into two groups: those of us who regretted it had all gone by so fast, and those of us who saw that each moment had not gone by, but rather it had all accumulated, like rain sluicing from an uppermost leaf of a tree to every leaf below until it was all there in a single drop on the lowest leaf, clinging but shivering on the serrated tip of the leaf, full of everything that came before.”
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August #12booksof2022 this was a hard month to choose in, I read a LOT of fantastic books ( Paper Palace, Remarkably Bright Creatures) but I have loved Lisa Moore a long time. She writes in a way that you are RIGHT THERE in the midst of it all and you learn about other people and events and you are better because of it

A novel about the ties, & how who we are is about individual choices as well as the family we have & the family we find. When the story opens, Jules is flying home from vacay to be with her 21 year-old son who has been hospitalized after a brutal attack. Told from shifting POVs, moving between past & present, we learn what led to this moment & what happens after. Love is complicated.and this novel honours that by not drawing straight lines. 👇

I get it Violet. So annoying when people talk to you when you're trying to read!

My next #AugustARC. A family saga by a Newfoundland author. So far, so good. 👍
It's already been released in Canada but coming out tomorrow in the US.
@Clwojick

I will say it again, I love Lisa Moore. This book is about family. The one we are born into, the one we sometimes get to choose, the love that we have for them

I am not kidding when I say ripple bbq chips and cottage cheese is the best snack ever

I really really love Lisa Moore

Started late last night. Think it‘s gonna be a good one!

I thought that I wanted to be married to him, whatever that meant. Later, I‘d realize it wasn‘t marriage at all that I‘d wanted—the performance of it, yes; the dress, yes; the heavy silver knife sinking into the fruit cake with icing like concrete, yes.
But it wasn‘t being married, which might be nullifying. I thought I wanted the stolid agreement, but that wasn‘t it either. Whatever it was I‘d wanted, I had no word for it.

We caused them a lot of unnecessary worry. This was how Nell and I were raised. Everything was allowed. As disciplinarians, my parents adhered to the policy of Don‘t Interfere. The arms-length approach. The let-them-make-mistakes approach. The keep-them-alive-is-all approach. That‘s how they saw their job as parents.

During a massive snowstorm in Newfoundland, a mother is at the bedside of her adult son in ICU, after he was attacked. The viewpoint shifts around & back in time, building our understanding of connections between characters, all ordinary people who do good things & bad. Some of these people—young & old—have fallen through the cracks in our society. Is it love that makes a difference for us all? #CanLit #ShadowGiller2022

A wall of white snow when I opened the front door, with a perfect imprint of the door handle and the mullions on the window and the moulded panels in the steel front of the door. It was like the lid of a coffin.

For a long time he had to content himself with being next to her in the bed while he played video games with earphones; he thought of her reading as an affliction. He began to think, in those times when he convinced her to put down her book, that there was no illness he could not cure.
But then she began reading aloud to him.

I had been offered a second piece of dessert and I had accepted it. I was ravenous. Later I realized the offer of a second piece had been a test and I had failed. They commented on my healthy appetite for years afterward.

Lisa Moore doesn‘t use a lot of Newfoundland-specific vocabulary—certainly not as much as Michael Crummey does—but “flankers” is something I haven‘t seen before.

A lovely work of Canadian literature. A story about mothers, sons, family. While this story wholly appeals to me for a literature prize, I don‘t think the actual Giller jurors may agree. It remains to be seen if this would make the Longlist this year. #ShadowGiller

Even though I haven‘t even cracked it open yet, I feel like we‘re going to see Lisa Moore on the Giller Longlist. Hoping for a good read here! #ShadowGiller