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Good morning!!

As we barrel towards September, have you done a lot of reading this summer? or has being outside or watching the Olympics slowed your reading down? how is your BINGO coming (if you are participating)?

What have you finished? What are you reading? What is next?

have a wonderful day!!

Happy Friday!

This week I read The Guest List, which was a fun palate cleanser. I also read Rainbow Milk, a first novel that I liked but did not love.

I'm currently reading Radiant Shimmering Light for bingo (it will be square number 18 for me). This novel has a fairly low rating on ŷ������ but I'm enjoying it. It satirizes wellness and self-actualization culture, mostly, but also those who live and work via social media.

This week I listened to The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot. One is 17, the other 83, and both are terminally ill. Margot, having lived longer, has more stories to tell, but Lenni is the character that will steal your heart.

I am now listening to LaRose. It's my first book by Louise Erdrich.

I am still reading The Shadow of the Wind as well. It's slow going, simply because I haven't found much time to read lately.

Hi all - holidays continue so enjoying some downtime to read. Finished Night Studies and have sourced a copy of Prospero's Daughter by Constance Beresford-Howe. Her books are so well written!!

also finished both The Clay Girl (a reread to prepare for the ARC of the sequel) and Cracked Pots - the topic is gritty and the abuse/neglect hard to read but the overall stories are hopeful and show resilience and strength. The author does an amazing job with building characters that stay with the reader. the sequel comes out in October.

I also finished Five Little Indians which is timely and tells a different perspective of not only the trauma of residential school but how students were sent out after school, totally unprepared for the harsh streets of Vancouver. I think that this would be a great book for the grade 11 curriculum and more people need to read this book as it is an accessible read that would suit both a YA reader and an adult that just wants the story without dense prose.

I have also started The Queen's Gambit on my kobo which is my read in bed book (so nice not to have to turn on the lights and disturb my husband) and am pondering what is next.

Happy Friday!!

I am currently experiencing Olympics withdrawal, so not much reading has been done this week. I also did not finish anything.
Currently still reading Lilac Girls and listening to The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed, made into movie starring Lady Gaga.

Hi everyone, I have been reading The classic, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. It is a fun read but the main character, Sam Spade is so very sexist. There is a rather neat audiobook of this on Libby that has Sandra Oh as one of the cast. It's like listening to a radio play. I just started reading Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann for my book club. Finally, I am reading Aqueduct by Adele Perry, a short, non fiction book regarding the crisis of the Shoal Lake 40 community, as a direct result of Winnipeg MB taking (stealing in my opinion) this community's natural resource as their main water source. I've watched multiple documentaries about the community and I cannot articulate how angered I am about the negative impact this has had on Shoal Lake 40. Alas, I continue to learn about our country's colonialism and my heart hurts. I'll be ready for lighter reads soon. Take care.

Right now I am reading The Salzburg Connection, Tender Is the Bite and Fall from Pride

Hi, everyone -- We are still drowning in smoke here in southeastern B.C. which means that I'm staying indoors and doing lots of reading. This week I was fortunate to finish two highly enjoyable, although very different books, a courtroom drama titled Defending Jacob by William Landay; and a retro read titled Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons (author of Cold Comfort Farm). Don't you love it when you read two winners back to back?

@Elinor, I have heard from several others that Defending Jacob was a worthy read. It does feel good to find books that resonate for me, especially when I find several in a row.

Elinor wrote: "Hi, everyone -- We are still drowning in smoke here in southeastern B.C. which means that I'm staying indoors and doing lots of reading. This week I was fortunate to finish two highly enjoyable, al..."

Which part? I was born in Garden Bay and grew up in what is now part of the District of Sechelt (but in a formerly unincorporated area...) My parents still live there.

Karin wrote: "Elinor wrote: "Hi, everyone -- We are still drowning in smoke here in southeastern B.C. which means that I'm staying indoors and doing lots of reading. This week I was fortunate to finish two highl..."

I’m in Invermere, half-way between Golden and Cranbrook, in the southeastern corner. The big fires are in the middle of BC but we are living under a heavy black smoke blanket.

Elinor, the smoke must be awful. I hope it clears up for everyone very soon. We had the smoke for 2 days, which was long enough. Stay safe.

Susan, I really enjoyed The Clay Girl and am looking forward to Cracked Pots.

I am still reading and very much enjoying Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. I like how the author is managing to put our history in a logic sequence and to make the progression of our Society understandable. There's a lot of information and it's very well and logically presented.
For my lighter read, I've started another book sent by a Secret Sender (thank you, Allison), Hamnet and Judith. I am loving the descriptions and details. The set-up and introduction to characters is very well done and I'm drawn into the story.
On my ereader (bedtime reading because of the backlight), I've started The War of the End of the World, another intriguing start to a story.

This past week I finished reading 2 books:
- the fifth Amelia Peabody book, The Deeds of the Disturber. The mystery is quite light (as always), but I so enjoy a visit with Amelia and her family. This book was no exception and was really entertaining.
- Here Is the Beehive, which I did not enjoy a lot. The main protagonist was so unlikeable. The story was less about the "blurb" and more about some disturbing, stalker-like, mean-hearted behaviour. Not my cup of tea.

Elinor wrote: "Karin wrote: "Elinor wrote: "Hi, everyone -- We are still drowning in smoke here in southeastern B.C. which means that I'm staying indoors and doing lots of reading. This week I was fortunate to fi..."

Okay--you get more fires in that area than they do on the coast. I hope things ease up soon!


I've never been to Invermere, but we might have driven through Cranbrook when I was small and my grandparents still lived in Coaldale, Alberta (near Lethbridge), but most of the drives we took across the province were on #1 because my late aunt and her family lived there (but once we went through Jasper after a visit to see my uncle when he was still in Edmonton where he lived for over 30 years as he did his first degree there and then was a research prof there for 29 years.