so-soThis book tells the story of the persecuted Japanese in Canada during World War II. I feel it‘s an important story that many Europeans (me!) are not aware of (i.e.
I had no idea that Canada had ghettos and labor camps) yet, except for some deeply moving chapters, there is not much happening in the book. Unfortunately, that‘s why it was a rather boring read.
My reactions as I re-read the first half of Emily‘s Quest this week:
Tearing up over Mr. Carpenter
Pleading with Emily to NOT show her book to Dean
LOATHING DEAN
Pleading with Emily to send her book to Miss Royal in NYC for another opinion
LOATHING DEAN
Thinking that buying the Disappointed House may be the only thing Dean has done that I approve of
And some agonizing about Teddy
How is your reading going? 😆
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pickA low pick. The mystery was OK but I liked the Saskatchewan setting, as I've not read many books set in that province of Canada.
#192025 #1994 @Librarybelle
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pickIn the dust bowl of 1930s Saskatchewan, charming, careless Maurice Dove, the eponymous student of weather appears on a farm and turns the lives of two sisters upside down. Frugal, hard-working Lucinda captivates Maurice with her beauty while grasping, passionate Norma Joyce captures his attention with her cleverness. The sisters‘ inexhaustible fascination with him shapes the whole of their lives from the prairies to Ottawa to NYC. (1/2)
pickDays by Moonlight (Quincunx 5), by André Alexis (2019 ??)
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Premise: A quiet botanist accompanies a family friend on a road trip through southern Ontario to uncover the story of a vanished poet and discovers a far stranger set of places than he could have imagined.
Review: This is such an odd series of books that I enjoy more in retrospect than in the reading. ⬇️
pickI understand why Humphreys titled the book The Ghost Orchard. It is absolutely the strongest section (followed by that on Robert Frost, and The Imagined Discovery of the White Winter Pearmain). The way in which she grafts the story of her relationship with both her friend and her father, and their deaths, onto the story of the apple is brilliant. The Parafilm that seamlessly binds the stories is Frost‘s friendship with the poet Edward Thomas.👇🏻
“It was all praise and miracle. Edward Thomas was right about a line of apples being the same as a line of poetry in another language.”
It‘s fun to be reading about the Robert Frost Interpretive Trail.
I always stop on the way home from visiting one of my friends in VT. It‘s not a long trail (nor is it The Long Trail) but it‘s one of my favorite little walks!
It‘s nice to remember, especially in November, that it can be a blessing to live in New England. Romanticize your life, right?
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