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JuniperWilde
A Town Called Solace | Mary Lawson
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5⭐️ I loved this gem of a novel. Three stories woven together and I can‘t decide which I liked more. Part mystery, part character development and part coming of age(s). I could feel the cold air on my skin and smell the lake. 🇨🇦

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JuniperWilde
A Town Called Solace | Mary Lawson
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Current read. A book you dive into despite the author‘s restraints. Mary Lawson tells good stories without embellishment. She relies on great characters and a compelling plot leaving the reading to infer bits here and there. IOW she assumes her readers are smart which is always a joy. #canadianwriter 🇨🇦 #canadianlitsy

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BarbaraBB
Road Ends: A Novel | Mary Lawson
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Megan wants to leave her home in Canada, where she is responsible for taking care of her many siblings and her parents. She‘s young and London is calling.
This books follows her in her new life, as well as her brother and father. Nothing much happens but it all feels very true and Mary Lawson is a gifted writer.

TrishB Lovely pic too ♥️ 1mo
Tamra ❤️ Lawson 1mo
JuniperWilde I was just thinking about this book tonight. It‘s on my list and I‘ll pick it up as my next read. 🇨🇦❤️ 1mo
Cathythoughts Lovely review ❤️ I remember loving A Town Called Solace. I must get back to her. 1mo
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts I loved that one too! 1mo
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Nebklvr
And the Birds Rained Down | Jocelyne Saucier
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A great fire, a man who wandered for years haunted by the fire and his lost loves, and a photographer trying to find s ghost but, instead, finding society‘s refugees. This was a plotless novel with a great deal of philosophizing on aging and death.

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TheKidUpstairs
And the Birds Rained Down | Jocelyne Saucier
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Celebrating #FoodandLit #Canada month with a chip truck poutine. I mean, really, any excuse for a chip truck poutine is a good one. #iykyk

Tagging my last excellent #CanLit read if anyone is looking for recommendations!

Traci1 Omg I love poutine. Used to live in Vermont about a mile from the Canadian border, and I can honestly say the only thing I miss about the 4 years we lived there is the poutine. 5mo
BarbaraBB I have the book stacked already. Probably you‘re responsible for that! 5mo
rabbitprincess That looks like a good poutine 😋 5mo
TheBookHippie yummmmmmm 5mo
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monalyisha
And the Birds Rained Down | Jocelyne Saucier
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The emoji in the center of the flower says it all. The choice between And the Birds Rained Down and My Broken Language was painful!

Ultimately, I went with the title I did because it does *a lot* in few words. My Broken Language could be a bit rambly (but I‘d happily drown in her tidal wave of language forever).

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CSeydel The best kind of dilemma to have! 5mo
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TheKidUpstairs
And the Birds Rained Down | Jocelyne Saucier
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"Ted was a broken soul, Charlie a nature lover and Tom had seen everything a man is allowed to see."

Three men retreated from society to live and die on their own terms in the remote Northern Ontario wilderness.

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TheKidUpstairs ...After one's death, the isolation of the remaining men is broken by the arrival of two women: one, a photographer searching for survivors of a Great Fire; the other, an elderly woman who had lived her days in the constrains of others, hoping for a chance at a life of her own.... cont'd 5mo
TheKidUpstairs Their stories are shared, as tales around a campfire, by the witnesses: the photographer, the pot farmer who brings them supplies, the wilderness hotel manager who keeps their secrets, and an omniscient narrator with the feel of a Greek chorus. It is a beautiful, thoughtful, questioning meditation on life, death, and the freedom in accepting that others live lives we can never fully comprehend, but there is comfort in the not knowing... cont'd
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TheKidUpstairs
"And death? Well, she is still prowling. But pray her no mind. She lurks in every step."

Thank you @monalyisha for inspiring me to push this one up my TBR.
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monalyisha I‘m so glad you had a positive experience with this one, too! 💚 5mo
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TheKidUpstairs
And the Birds Rained Down | Jocelyne Saucier
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"In which people go missing, a death pact adds spice to life, and the lure of the forest and of love makes life worth living. The story seems far-fetched, but there are witnesses, so its truth cannot be doubted. To doubt it would be to deprive us of an improbable other world that offers refuge to special beings."

Been on my TBR for a while, but @monalyisha recent review made me grab it at the library. With an opening line that I couldn't resist!

BarbaraBB Her review made me stack! @monalyisha (edited) 5mo
monalyisha Yess!!! I‘m thrilled. 🙌🏻 5mo
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monalyisha
And the Birds Rained Down | Jocelyne Saucier
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It took some effort to hunt this slim novel-in-translation down. Nominated for a bunch of Canadian awards & adapted to (French) film in 2019, it was trickier to find in MA. Well worth it! In my Top 3 reads this year.

A trio of elderly men build off-grid cabins in the forest, so they can live & die on their own terms. Enter two women: one a young(ish) photographer, the other an aged woman recently sprung from a psychiatric institution. 👇🏻

monalyisha 1/1: Contemplative, kind, and subtly funny. Some might be unhappy about the ending, which does include some upsetting details, but I‘m not among them. 5mo
BarbaraBB Sounds fab. Stacking. 5mo
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monalyisha
And the Birds Rained Down | Jocelyne Saucier
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Went down a rabbit hole. 🐇

AnnCrystal 💕📜🤩👍💝. 6mo
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