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Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel | Louise Penny

The #OhCanada November/December read has kicked off and feel free to read any book from the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny. I will be reading book #1 (Still Life) as I haven't read any of these books before. Discussion will be high level with no spoilers since there will likely be multiple books read.
Anyone is welcome to join - easy going group read where we explore Canadian authors.

LitsyEvents We will be continuing in 2026 too. Via @Jess861 1d

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Jess861

Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel | Louise Penny

The #OhCanada November/December read has kicked off and feel free to read any book from the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny. I will be reading book #1 (Still Life) as I haven't read any of these books before. Discussion will be high level with no spoilers since there will likely be multiple books read.

Anyone is welcome to join - easy going group read where we explore Canadian authors. We will be continuing in 2026 too.

Jess861 @lauraisntwilder @KathyWheeler @Ruthiella @CarolynM @LapReader @kwmg40 @Readergrrl @JenlovesJT47 @Tamra @PurpleyPumpkin @Kitta @DogMomIrene @Blueberry @BiblioLitten @JuniperWilde @Teresereading @mcctrish @willaful @Singout @LitsyEvents 2d

Suet624 Don‘t know if you heard about her US book tour. https://vtdigger.org/2025/10/30/after-a-famed-canadian-author-exits-a-u-s-tour-a... 2d

Jess861 @Suet624 Thank you for the link! I had not heard - interesting read! A reading in an Opera House will be neat for those able to attend but it's too bad she cancelled her American tour (although understandable to me anyways). 2d

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willaful Oh, you are in for a treat. (Probably. I suppose somebody doesn't like Still Life. ;-) )

I'm on book 10, The Long Way Home. (edited) 1d

Jess861 @willaful I hope so - I've never really gotten into cozy mysteries (only because I don't have time to read a ton) but I did read Murder at Fenway Park a few years back and enjoyed it. So hoping the same with this one! 1d

LapReader Starting Grey Wolf on the train this morning. Found in my building‘s library so I was pretty happy about that. 11h

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lauraisntwilder

Three Day Road | Joseph Boyden

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Another #OhCanada pick I never would've heard about otherwise. I found both of the dual narratives interesting, which isn't always the case. I haven't read many books about WWI and I appreciated the perspective of an indigenous Canadian.

Jess861 I love this cover! So glad you enjoyed it! 2d

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Ruthiella

Three Day Road | Joseph Boyden

#weekendreads

📕Finish up Three Day Road for #OhCanada

📗Continue The Woods in Winter for #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

📘Continue Nevada for #OffMyShelf “orange cover”

📙Maybe finish Civil to Strangers for #10beforetheEnd

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Jess861

Three Day Road (Revised) | Joseph Boyden

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Thoughts on the book? Thoughts on the themes? Thoughts on the author? Just thoughts in general?

Will you read more by this author?

Sorry for such a quick little post for the discussion at the end but I'm battling the flu and a cold right now and this is about as much thought as my head can put into anything right now 😆!

#OhCanada #Canada #CanadianAuthors #BookClub #BuddyRead #Discussion

mcctrish I am so glad you kicked my butt to finally read this - I will totally read more JB. It should be required reading imo. The glimpse into what life was like for indigenous people, women especially, and the trauma of war 3d

Jess861 @mcctrish This turned into The Bird Family trilogy if you liked it. Through Black Spruce is the second book in the trilogy. 3d

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Ruthiella I‘m glad to finally read Boyden. I don‘t think I will continue with the trilogy, however. There‘s something about the writing style that doesn‘t grab me. But I appreciate this portrayal of the indigenous Canadian experience of WWI. Hope you feel better soon! ❤️ (edited) 3d

Jess861 @Ruthiella Sometimes writing styles are just hard to get into! Glad you didn't mind the book! Thanks so much...I look forward to not feeling like a bag of bricks has hit my head 😆 3d

lauraisntwilder I hope you're on the mend soon! This was a good one. 2d

Jess861 @lauraisntwilder Thanks so much! It's what happens with young kids - always sick, lol 2d

Blueberry I'm still reading. I realized I had already read the third on the series. Now I'll have to read the second. I do like his writing. 24h

Jess861 @Blueberry Glad you're enjoying it! It is definitely a solid book to get through even though it's not a huge page count (I found so anyways) 15h

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Ruthiella

Bailey's Cafe | Gloria Naylor

#FridayHappyReadingHour Unwinding and transitioning to the weekend.

I‘ve just finished the tagged book, my last #Roll100 for October.

My focus now is on the first two #10BeforetheEnd titles.

And then I need to get started on the #OhCanada pick for Sep/Oct. 🤞

kspenmoll, Cathythoughts, BarbaraBB

Tamra Looks like a fantastic weekend! 1w

Ruthiella @Tamra I‘m hoping it will be ! 🤞 1w

BarbaraBB Sounds like a plan. Enjoy 💝 1w

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AnnCrystal 🤩📚🥤😋💝. 1w

Cathythoughts The unwind is such a great feeling 🥰enjoy your weekend x 1w

bookandbedandtea This is a lovely picture. 😍 Enjoy the weekend! 1w

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mcctrish

Three Day Road | Joseph Boyden

Thankful for #ohcanada group for choosing this and enabling me to get it off my Death Tower where it sat for 10 years? A raw look at war, the horrors of trench warfare and an informative look at indigenous life in Canada in the early 1900‘s and their roles in the Great War.
My favourite part was Niska‘s story - she always had hope, Xavier and Elijah‘s story in the war was reflective of the awfulness of the killing fields

Jess861 So glad you were able to find time and read it! Glad you enjoyed it! 3w

Tamra I will start soon, looking forward to it! 3w

mcctrish @Tamra I‘m so glad I went with audio, despite having this print copy because I loved hearing the indigenous language spoken 3w

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mcctrish

Three Day Road | Joseph Boyden

I am going to attack my To Do list but first Jane Goodall 💚💙🦍🦧🪾🐒 #ohcanada

Deblovestoread Love, love, love! 3w

mcctrish @Deblovestoread my son just came to look at it and said “I can‘t believe you actually finally made it!” 😂 3w

AnnCrystal
👏🏼🥲👍🏼🧩💝💝💝. 3w

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mcctrish

Three Day Road | Joseph Boyden

Started today on my drive to school #ohcanada

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LitsyEvents

Oh, Canada! | Per-Henrik G�rth

Reposting for @Jess861
The #OhCanada book club is going to head to Three Pines for the last read of 2025. Read any of the Louise Penny books depending where you are in the series or a book you maybe want to reread. There will likely be a few different books read so discussion question(s) will still be posted at the end but will be high level as to spoil any of the books.
All are welcome to join this low key bi-monthly read of Canadian authors.

Jess861 Thanks so much! 1mo

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