Much better than Middlesex.
Interesting. Not a perfect book, but still worth reading.
Much better than Middlesex.
Interesting. Not a perfect book, but still worth reading.
8/10 Great story, I read it in one sitting! Wayne, and Treadway are very different characters, with a few hardfound similarities. Some chapters are overlong on description with a distinct lack of anything happening. I'd read this again, and would be interested in other books by this author.
Just another reminder of Annabel calling to me. 😁 So many TBRs! Definitely soon! ❄️
I appreciated the unique perspective of Wayne/Annabel and the struggle to actualize herself, along with how difficult it would be for family & friends. How do you make "right" decisions in these circumstances? However, the last 1/3 seemed to lose focus & momentum as it went along.
'The Best of Canadiana' poster, spotted at the library. I'm thrilled to see Annabel on the previews, and in on the shelf! I'm certainly up for reading it on my list, by February. ❄
#November 5 #Author From Your Country - #Annabel by #KathleenWinter is one of the most #beautiful #books I've ever #read. It's the perfect book to read curled up in a #cozysweater and with a hot #cup of #tea. #AngieBookishNovember #bookchallenge #bookstagram #LitsyFeature #Canlit #CanadianLiterature #Labrador #gender #booklove #coverlove #davidstea #ohcanada #maple
My favourite #bookmark is my trusty puffin.. Fitting for a reader in Newfoundland! #booktober
I love this passage, part of a postcard written from Bucharest and sent to Labrador, Canada. But I imagine it must have either been a really large postcard or written with the smallest of handwriting in order to fit all this and a couple more shorter paragraphs on it!
Reading this book, set in rural Labrador in northern Canada, while on a public bus in rainy and humid and so very crowded Singapore is such a contrast. Also I've discovered that the bus seats and floor make for good book photos 😂
Women did not get many moments like this in their lives, sun beating on their eyelids in a hidden corner and no one asking them for anything.
Finally starting another book for #24in48. Has anyone read this? Also my mother-in-law's house (where we are staying while we visit) smells of durians (another reason I can't stand durians - the smell is everywhere!) so it cannot be any further fr this book which opens with a white caribou and a river.
On the surface, it is a book about gender. On a deeper level, it is a book about identity. Influencing our identity are place, family and relationships, but in our core, we may need something that cannot be provided by the people or the place where we are born. #canlit
"When the child separated from its parents to explore the new world, the parents can do one of two things ..."
#mylifeasparent #canlit
"There's a time for catgut, Wayne, and there's a time for parties. Tonight you need to go to that party."
#canlit
Stained glass shipped across the Atlantic in barrels of molasses to prevent breakage? So that's what they did before styrofoam. What an expensive insulation. #canlit