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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all who celebrate!!

My apologies for the delay in our Friday Spine Crackers... it is easy to get distracted this time of year.

What are reading? What is next?

did you find any books under the tree?

Check out the secret sender thread for some fun!!

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
Ladyparts.
The Teller of Secrets.
You Haven't Changed a Bit: Stories

And a cpl more but yes all at the same time 🤷🏼‍♀��
Not sure what’s next - maybe whatever pops up in my holds list from the library. The Only Good Indians is beside me too.

Happy Holidays to All!
I was gifted The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish from my mom. This is one of our next Mother/Daughter Book Club reads, and The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. Looking forward to both! The kobo app has been having amazing book deals so I stocked up on way too many new reads to list.

@Tina - I loved The Weight of Ink!! how great is it to have a mother/daugher book club! how do you choose your books?

The holiday season has kept me busy so I have only finished When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress which was a long slog and seemed to miss the multi-factorial disease process and focus on stress (which of course is a factor) making me feel like the author targeted his research on studies that supported his hypothesis... perhaps I am just skeptical. overall, we all need to manage our stress and focus on self-care and the "how to" was missing.

I also finished The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country which was an interesting story of the author's first year in Denmark. We can all learn a few things from this book about slowing down and enjoying what life has to offer! This has led me to start The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well.

under the tree, I found Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance, Talking to Canadians: A Memoir and The Strangers... my husband knows me well!!

@Susan, my family is Danish so I love that you are embracing our hygge-ness!! The one tradition we no longer carry out is lighting the real candles on our tree. There were many “could have ended differently �� Christmas Eves in our house growing up.
Mom lives on Vancouver Island and myself in MB, so when I visit we go on bookstore dates and find books we want to both read. In this Covid world, I have been sending her books.
Question as a group newbie-how can I link book titles as you have, they are highlighted in green & underlined? Thanks!

That is so awesome... I can't imagine lightning real candles on the tree... or dancing around it (which is what the author described). We all need more hygge!!

to link the titles, you need to be on a computer and above the text box, there is a spot that says add book/author. :)

Dancing around the tree growing up was fun! It never took with my hubby and son though.
Thanks! Not sure if it worked but i tired to link Prodical Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. A Secret Santa gift from my family book club. My sis-inlaw and I started a zoom book club with the women on my husband’s side of the family. I introduced the Secret Santa last year & was a huge success so we continued on this year. It introduces us to so many new authors and the wish list keeps growing.

Prodigal Summer

It worked and love the idea of a family book club!

Happy holidays, everyone!

In the last week, I finished The Office of Historical Corrections, an interesting and entertaining collection of stories and one novella. I also finished A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, a thought-provoking collection of essays. I also read Valentine, a novel that begins with a crime but is really a portrait of women living in a small oil town in Texas in the 1970s. It was a good read.

I'm currently reading We Want What We Want. I really like Ohlin's stories! And I'm reading book 2 in a fantasy trilogy: The Obelisk Gate. And I'm reading a fantastic nonfiction book: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City.

HI everyone, I finally have a chance to breathe and sit down at my computer!

Just because of how library holds came due, i ended up listening to My Sister, the Serial Killer while I was getting ready for and cooking Christmas Dinner--lol, it is quite a good book but such a dichotomy with celebrating the season with family.

Have some downtown, so maybe I can double down in next few days and finish that Bingo!

I just read The Jane Austen Society, so Canadian since the author was raised in Canada and still lives there, although of course it's set in England. I didn't read it because it was Canadian, but for another reason, but at least I got to chalk another Canadian author up for this year.

Hi! I finished The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times in audio recently, which was really well done. I know Susan enjoyed this book too.

I'm making my way slowly through And Miles to Go Before I Sleep, which was a gift from my Secret Sender from this group. I do love this author.

Look what I stumbled across today on GoodReads! Just so creepy/odd/almost ridiculous to read the outline now! SARS: How a Global Epidemic Was Stopped

@Allison I wish the book was printed in 2021 and titled " COVID-19 How A Global Pandemic Was Stopped"! SARS feels like a lifetime ago.