4 days ago by Shonna

Finished January 2 The Outlander by Gil Adamson I've had this one beside my bed for ages and have been reading it in small doses. The book follows the trail of a young widow, as she flees from her dead husband's brothers who want her for killing their brother. The action takes place in the early par ...

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9 days ago by Kathleen Molloy

On his blog, Hugh Mcguire asks “ What if the Book Business collapses?” It would be a disaster for the armies of Canadian publicists. Mayhem for the distributors, printers, and book designers. What of the book sellers? What of the Canadian library system? Would we have to recycle all of our old favou ...

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28 days ago by Shonna

Finished December 9 Holding My Breath by Sidura Ludwig This book takes place in Winnipeg after World War II, and the characters are part of the Jewish community in the city. The narrator is Beth Levy, an only child. She grows up in a household where they are often other family members living, includ ...

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29 days ago by Lawrence

In November, the book club read and discussed the first Louise Penny book of the "Three Pines" mysteries Still Life. A few in the group had already read this book and moved through the three books of the series while the fourth book, A Rule Against Murder (an Armand Gamache Novel) arrives on bookshe ...

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30 days ago by Shonna

Finished December 7 What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey This is a follow-up book to her earlier Sylvanus Now. This book concentrates on Sylvanus' children, Sylvie and Chris. Sylvie has been working out in boomtown Grande Prairie, Alberta following her university degree. She has come home to be with ...

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69 days ago by Shonna

Finished October 29 Crown Shyness by Curtis Gillespie A unique take on the politics of Canada in novel form, the book takes a political magazine journalist as its central character. Paul Munk is liberal-minded and socially conscious. He is writing an article for the magazine he works for on a man tr ...

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73 days ago by Shonna

Finished October 26 A Sharp Intake of Breath by John Miller This novel follows the life of a Jewish man, Herbert "Toshy" Wolfman. Toshy was born with a cleft palate and a cleft life in the first decade of the twentieth century in Toronto. At the age of five, his parents have saved enough money to pa ...

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79 days ago by Shonna

Finished October 18 Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden This is a wonderful novel revolving around native characters from a community in northern Ontario. The chapters are told from the points of view of Annie, a young native woman, and her uncle Will Bird, who is lying in the hospital in a coma. ...

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88 days ago by Shonna

Finished October 10 Radiance by Shaena Lambert, read by Tara Ward The time is 1952 and Keiko Kitigawa, a girl injured in the Hiroshima bomb attack, has come to the United States. She is brought to the U.S. by a committee working to prevent more bombs and bomb tests from happening. In return for her ...

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92 days ago by Shonna

Finished October 7 West End Murders by Roy Innes Innes is a new author for me, but this is not the first book in the series featuring RCMP Inspector Coswell and Corporal Blakemore. The setting is Vancouver and their have been a series of murders in the west end targeting high profile gay men. The Va ...

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