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So I‘m now 2/2 with Carley Fortune! I‘ve always been a sucker for summer-romance-at-the-lake and second chances. I may have found a new (to me) must read romance author!

“Alligator pie, alligator pie, if I don‘t get some, I think I‘m gonna die.”

“A tasty feast of rhymes that will leave readers hungry for more.“

This delightful collection of silly and inventive poems is a Canadian classic that celebrates the joy of language and play.

#FoodandLiy #Canada I made apple crisp today from apple we picked near our house. Farmers from days gone by always had apple trees on their farm. Some now are forgotten and are really old. The apples we picked didn't look as good as the ones from the store, but they are delicious. Recipe, cut apples, and put on the bottom of the dish. Put oatmeal, flour, butter, and brown sugar together and cover the apples. Add cinnamon and bake at 350 for⬇️

This was such a good read, raw and searching, solid and seeing, compelling and quiet. It is storytelling in the most real sense of that term, like a history being imparted rather than a novel being written. And I guess it is, for all that the characters are fictional, their stories have real cousins out there that also need to be heard. I was deeply affected by the characters and the journeys they each traveled in order to find home.

This is the story of Elie, a young Innu convicted of murder & banned from his community who ends up homeless in Montréal (called Tiohti�:ke in Mohawk) - like many other First Nations men & women - before turning his life around. Not a masterpiece, but both moving & informative.
Written by a Mashteuiatsh Innu author

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I finally had time to watch The Gillers. If Anne Michaels writes as beautifully as she speaks, I‘m really going to have to read Held. I also really want to read Prairie Edge and Curiosities. The TBR just keeps getting bigger.

Going in, I knew this was just a short story collection with Anne Shirley basically forced in here and there. While, yes, that's true, the Anne bits are relatively unobtrusive. Several of the stories were sweet, like "Old Lady Lloyd" and "Each in His Own Tongue," and several had classic LMM tropes like a quarreling couple, a man hater, and old maid sisters. I enjoyed it!