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This Is How We Love
This Is How We Love | Lisa Moore
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From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love? As the snowstorm of the century rages toward Newfoundland, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St. Johns to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage and of what she cant quite make out. While Xaviers story unfolds, so, too, do the stories that brought him there. Here, across families and generations, are stories of mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers; of children cared for, neglected, lost, and re-found; of selfless generosity and reluctant debt. Above all, Moore, in the inimitable largesse of her art, paints a shimmering portrait of the sacrifice, pain, and wild joy of loving. A tour de force of storytelling and craft, This is How We Love brings us a cast of characters so rich and true they could only have been written by Lisa Moore.
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JacqMac
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“We divided into two groups: those of us who regretted it had all gone by so fast, and those of us who saw that each moment had not gone by, but rather it had all accumulated, like rain sluicing from an uppermost leaf of a tree to every leaf below until it was all there in a single drop on the lowest leaf, clinging but shivering on the serrated tip of the leaf, full of everything that came before.”
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August #12booksof2022 this was a hard month to choose in, I read a LOT of fantastic books ( Paper Palace, Remarkably Bright Creatures) but I have loved Lisa Moore a long time. She writes in a way that you are RIGHT THERE in the midst of it all and you learn about other people and events and you are better because of it

Andrew65 Some months were definitely harder than others. 1y
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A novel about the ties, & how who we are is about individual choices as well as the family we have & the family we find. When the story opens, Jules is flying home from vacay to be with her 21 year-old son who has been hospitalized after a brutal attack. Told from shifting POVs, moving between past & present, we learn what led to this moment & what happens after. Love is complicated.and this novel honours that by not drawing straight lines. 👇

merelybookish And yet, love matters, even if loving can be hard. I especially enjoyed the family histories, the digressions into stories about people not directly involved in the plot. Because in this novel, those stories matter, too. There's a generosity and confidence to Moore's writing. I felt I was in good hands. Just a really good novel about family, relationships, community & choices. #AugustArc #Netgalley. 2y
kspenmoll Wonderful review; I want to read this now! 2y
Cathythoughts Great review! Stacked 2y
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merelybookish
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I get it Violet. So annoying when people talk to you when you're trying to read!

Leftcoastzen 🙄I shake my book at them !😁 2y
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merelybookish
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My next #AugustARC. A family saga by a Newfoundland author. So far, so good. 👍
It's already been released in Canada but coming out tomorrow in the US.
@Clwojick

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mcctrish
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I will say it again, I love Lisa Moore. This book is about family. The one we are born into, the one we sometimes get to choose, the love that we have for them

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mcctrish
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I am not kidding when I say ripple bbq chips and cottage cheese is the best snack ever

ShelleyBooksie I've had chips and ice cream (yum) but never chips and cottage cheese. Must try! 2y
mcctrish @ShelleyBooksie let me know what you think ( it‘s almost healthy ) 🤣🤣 2y
rmaclean4 One of my favorite snacks!! 2y
mcctrish @rmaclean4 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2y
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mcctrish
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I really really love Lisa Moore

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Gleefulreader
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Started late last night. Think it‘s gonna be a good one!

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Lindy
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I thought that I wanted to be married to him, whatever that meant. Later, I‘d realize it wasn‘t marriage at all that I‘d wanted—the performance of it, yes; the dress, yes; the heavy silver knife sinking into the fruit cake with icing like concrete, yes.
But it wasn‘t being married, which might be nullifying. I thought I wanted the stolid agreement, but that wasn‘t it either. Whatever it was I‘d wanted, I had no word for it.

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Lindy
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We caused them a lot of unnecessary worry. This was how Nell and I were raised. Everything was allowed. As disciplinarians, my parents adhered to the policy of Don‘t Interfere. The arms-length approach. The let-them-make-mistakes approach. The keep-them-alive-is-all approach. That‘s how they saw their job as parents.

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Lindy
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During a massive snowstorm in Newfoundland, a mother is at the bedside of her adult son in ICU, after he was attacked. The viewpoint shifts around & back in time, building our understanding of connections between characters, all ordinary people who do good things & bad. Some of these people—young & old—have fallen through the cracks in our society. Is it love that makes a difference for us all? #CanLit #ShadowGiller2022

Penny_LiteraryHoarders I thought before reading this would be a big contender but after finishing I‘m not so sure. It‘s more of a quieter kind of story and I don‘t think the judges would choose this kind of story?? 2y
Lindy @Penny_LiteraryHoarders I agree: it‘s not in the top tier of contenders. Sometimes these books make the list because none of the judges have strong objections. 2y
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A wall of white snow when I opened the front door, with a perfect imprint of the door handle and the mullions on the window and the moulded panels in the steel front of the door. It was like the lid of a coffin.

mcctrish I remember seeing this in the news 2y
Lindy @mcctrish Yes, it was quite the storm. ❄️ 2y
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Lindy
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For a long time he had to content himself with being next to her in the bed while he played video games with earphones; he thought of her reading as an affliction. He began to think, in those times when he convinced her to put down her book, that there was no illness he could not cure.
But then she began reading aloud to him.

CarolynM Outrageous!🤣 2y
julesG 😂😂 2y
Lindy @CarolynM @julesG And then he gets infected by the book bug. What a happy outcome! 😁 2y
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Lindy
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I had been offered a second piece of dessert and I had accepted it. I was ravenous. Later I realized the offer of a second piece had been a test and I had failed. They commented on my healthy appetite for years afterward.

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Lindy
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Lisa Moore doesn‘t use a lot of Newfoundland-specific vocabulary—certainly not as much as Michael Crummey does—but “flankers” is something I haven‘t seen before.

CarolynM I like that word, I‘ll have to use it next time we have an open fire 🙂 2y
CarolynM I‘ve just realised it‘s “flanker” not “fanker”. I‘ll have to be careful when I use it, a “flanker” is also a certain kind of rugby player, my husband would be very surprised if I started talking about flankers going up the chimney🤣🤣🤣 2y
CarolynM @Centique There‘s a mental image for you🤣🤣🤣 2y
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Centique @CarolynM I saw that instantly as rugby shorts, a pair of muddy legs and boots pushing off from the grate. 😂 2y
CarolynM @Centique Imagine the mess left behind!🤣 2y
Lindy @CarolynM @Centique Thanks for amusing me this morning. 🏉The rugby definition of flanker is the popular one when I searched online for a definition. I had to narrow my results by adding Newfoundland to the search terms. 2y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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A lovely work of Canadian literature. A story about mothers, sons, family. While this story wholly appeals to me for a literature prize, I don‘t think the actual Giller jurors may agree. It remains to be seen if this would make the Longlist this year. #ShadowGiller

Nute I like the look of the book, the watercolor abstract and the title. The story sounds like something I would enjoy as well.🙂 (edited) 2y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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Even though I haven‘t even cracked it open yet, I feel like we‘re going to see Lisa Moore on the Giller Longlist. Hoping for a good read here! #ShadowGiller

Lindy Fingers crossed 😊 2y
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