pickThis 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.
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.
November 18th #DaysDevotedTo Princess 👸 My favorite princess book from a #CanadianAuthor #FoodandLit @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Texreader @Catsandbooks
I feel like the tone of this will be markedly different than my previous couple of reads, but I expect it will be a good one…
pickAbsolutely will continue with this series. I love this #CanadianAuthor #FoodandLit 3 sisters are tasked into taking a curse away from a rare necklace, and 2 are kidnapped. What will the third sister so. #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove24 it also had 664 pages. #ChunksterChallenge2024 #MiniChunkster @Texreader @Catsandbooks @DieAReader @Andrew65 @TheSpineView @Amiable @GHABI4ROSES
I found this very cool offering in a local free puzzle library (!!!) and did most of it while I listened to FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS. Alas, it‘s the first Cherie Dimaline novel I‘ve disliked. It offers up some intriguing threads, but the story as a whole fails to satisfying and the prose is so performatively purple that it shut me out of the emotions instead of placing me inside them. Sigh. #audiopuzzling
pickThis novel is unlike anything I have read before. There are no characters, except perhaps the land itself. Humans & nonhuman beings alike are there—with their fingers & claws & antlers—but our perspective as readers is somewhere above it all, witnessing changes over countless cycles of seasons. I did this as a text/audio combo & found it soothing. It also worked some kind of magic on my brain. #Indigenous #CanadianAuthor
My latest booktube episode features recent reads from 7 countries: #comics, a verse narrative & a picture book. #translations #poetry #CanadianAuthor #Kidlit #YA
https://youtu.be/5n28_h07sz8
#FoodandLit #Canada I made Cabbage Rolls it is unclear as to who invented this lovely dish, but we do have a lot of Ukrainian immigrants that came to Canada in the early 1900 s. I learned how to make it from a French Canadian lady. The recipe is very easy.
1. Cook beef with onions and add beef broth pouch until cooked. Cook rice separately. Mix the two together and add soya sauce. Don't be cheap but taste. ⬇️
