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Trashcanman
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Mimi28 How are you doing? 2w
Leftcoastzen This has been on my TBR for awhile 2w
Trashcanman @Mimi28 I‘m okay Michelle, how are you? How‘s the recovery going? What‘s new? What are you excited about? Today‘s been rough to be honest. I‘m pretty lonely. But overall better 1w
Mimi28 Glad you are ok and overall better 😊 The recovery is going well - MRI on Thursday to see what the next step will be because I am still in a lot of pain. They may have to fuse a couple of discs. What‘s new- this book I am reading I Am The Swarm is really making me think about how I chose or chose not to express my emotions. The main character has bugs come out when she is hiding something or didn‘t know she was hiding some emotion. They are 👇🏽 1w
Mimi28 All graceful but still creepy. Sorry you had a rough day. I know tomorrow will be better 🫶🏽😊🫶🏽🩷 1w
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LatrelWhite
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Love this!❤️❤️❤️❤️

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behudd
On the Rooftop | Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I enjoyed this character-driven book club pick! It follows a mother and her 3 adult daughters-all in their early 20s and living in those moments of relationship change, while also living through gentrification and other societal changes of the early 1950s. I was impressed with how realistic the characters felt and the way that the author wove their stories together-you understand everyone‘s motivations, whether you agree with them or not.

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oddandbookish
Noodle & Bao | Shaina Lu
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The story was well executed. It tackled the complex issue of gentrification (specifically in a Chinatown context) in an accessible way. At the end of the book, there were a few pages with background information on Chinatowns, gentrification, community activism, and a short note on the language used (Chinese dialogue is used throughout the story).

Full Review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/review-noodle-bao/

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Lindy
May Our Joy Endure | KEVIN. LAMBERT
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I‘m back home in Canada & it‘s all Canadian authors in this December 18th episode! #booktube

https://youtu.be/lXJD3Exclio

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BookNightOwl
Invisible Son | Kim Johnson
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a story about a kid who goes away to a juvenile detention center for a crime he didn‘t do. On top of that he is released at a time that coronavirus is spreading throughout the world. This book touched my soul in such a way that is so hard to describe. I could feel the pain and the suffering of the characters as I still remember when the virus was spreading and we didn‘t understand what was going on.

TheIntrovertedDodoBird I love the cover. Great review. Stacked! 13mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great review ❤️ 13mo
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Dilara
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A non-fiction graphic work about the former workers' neighbourhood of Annikki in Tampere (#Finland) that's both informative and graphically creative, with a wide range of styles. Loved the art. Slighly sad that the solution to save the old houses was to have them bought and done up by arty newcomers, displacing former poor(er) residents. #gentrification

Will definitely read more by Tiitu Takalo

Photo by Eino Ansio: Annikki Poetry Festival 2018

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Ericalambbrown
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Holy $h!t this was good! And anxiety inducing. And infuriating. This felt almost more horror than thriller to me. I couldn‘t put it down / turn it off. It was a read some, listen some for me because I couldn‘t just read all weekend. So glad a friend on IG posted about it since I‘d never heard of it before.

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Dilara
Que notre joie demeure | Kevin Lambert
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I am reading Que notre joie demeure, Kevin Lambert's latest, multiple prize-winning novel, and I have been so confused by his use of the word “plusieurs“ I had to google “plusieurs + québecisme + définition“ to get to the bottom of this. 😂 Here's what the Office québécois de la langue française has to say. Now I know that “plusieurs“ means “some“ or “several“ in Europe, but can be used to mean “many“ in #Québec. Live and learn...

LiseWorks I could have told you that as I'm a French Canadian lol 1y
IuliaC This is good to know. I had no idea it could also mean "many" 1y
Kitta Learned French in Canada and yes we use this to mean some/many lol 1y
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Dilara @LiseWorks lol, I'll think of you next time I am bewildered by a Canadian French turn of phrase 😁 1y
Dilara @IuliaC Two nations divided by a common language 😜 1y
Dilara @Kitta Ah just rub it in, why don't you 😂 1y
IuliaC @Dilara 😂👍 1y
kwmg40 Interesting comment! I'm an Anglophone who grew up in Quebec, and while I can read novels in French (albeit slowly), I still struggle with vocabulary. However, I tend to have trouble with French books from France and not so much with French Canadian books. 14mo
Kitta @dilara haha my French is terrible but this word I know!! I want to start reading in French again though. I‘ll try and hit up the French bookstore here! 14mo
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