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The Forgotten Home Child | Genevieve Graham

I finished re-reading The Forgotten Home Child just like I started - with a Dragonfruit drink. It is a beautiful day for some backyard reading.

Just about two weeks until some discussion points are posted about the book for #OhCanada. I do hope those who get the chance to read it are enjoying the book while learning a bit about Canada's history (that even as a Canadian I knew nothing about until this book). I will post discussions on July 1st.

Jess861 #BookClub #BuddyRead #Canada

@lauraisntwilder @KathyWheeler @Ruthiella @CarolynM @LapReader @kwmg40 @Readergrrl @JenlovesJT47 @Tamra @PurpleyPumpkin @Kitta @DogMomIrene @Blueberry @BiblioLitten @JuniperWilde @Teresereading 14h

kwmg40 I'm still waiting for this book at the library, so I will likely not be joining in the discussions immediately, but I hope to get to reading it eventually. 13h

Jess861 @kwmg40 Hope you're able to get your hands on a copy eventually. 13h

kwmg40 @Jess861 I expect I will before too long. I've not read anything by this author and would like to try one her books. 13h

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Ruthiella

The Forgotten Home Child | Genevieve Graham

so-so

#offmyshelf “most recent TBR”
#ohcanada

This novel brings an important aspect of Canadian history to light-the use/abuse of indigent British children as indentured servants in Canada in the 19th and 20th cent. Told from the present with flashbacks to the past by Winnie to her granddaughter.

I‘m glad to have read it. However, I didn‘t like the writing or storytelling style personally. I found it too basic, the characters felt one dimensional.

wanderinglynn, Jess861

Jess861 Glad you were able to read it but sorry you didn't enjoy the writing style. I just finished my reread today oddly enough. 14h

Ruthiella It‘s bound to happen now from time to time. 😅 I did think the subject was interesting. I didn‘t know anything about it or the similar “orphan trains” in the US beforehand. 12h

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Ruthiella

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories | Sarah Orne Jewett

#weekendreads

I have a lot going on this weekend, but I hope to at least have enough time to finish the #ohcanada pick and #EBBR and #NancyDrewBR . Those are quick ones.

I‘m reading the Sarah Orne Jewett b/c of the podcast “One Bright Book” and it takes time to digest.

The bottom two are also slower for me #hashtagbrigade and #DoorstopKristen #KLBR .

rachelsbrittain

KadaGul You are FULLY BOOKED 📚🤓📚 1d

Ruthiella @KadaGul I am! 😅 1d

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LitsyEvents

Oh, Canada! | Per-Henrik G�rth

Repost for @Jess861

Helen Knott does not have as many books as some of the other Canadian authors we have explored but she does have these two memoirs. Either memoir will be a good but hard read. Please let me know which book you would prefer to read for the July/August read of #OhCanada.

Anyone welcome to join in this easygoing book club where we explore different Canadian authors every two months.

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Jess861

Oh, Canada! | Per-Henrik G�rth

Helen Knott does not have as many books as some of the other Canadian authors we have explored but she does have these two memoirs. Either memoir will be a good but a hard read. Please let me know which book you would prefer to read for the July/August read of #OhCanada .

Anyone welcome to join in this easy going book club where we explore different Canadian authors every two months.

Jess861 @litsyevents #BookClub #BuddyRead #Canada

@lauraisntwilder @KathyWheeler @Ruthiella @CarolynM @LapReader @kwmg40 @Readergrrl @JenlovesJT47 @Tamra @PurpleyPumpkin @Kitta @DogMomIrene @Blueberry @BiblioLitten @JuniperWilde @Teresereading 1w

Ruthiella I like the idea of mixing in memoir! I vote for

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience

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PurpleyPumpkin Oof these both sound like heavy but important reads. Hard to choose just one! So, I‘ll go with her first book. But I‘m happy to read either.

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience

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JenlovesJT47 I read Becoming A Matriarch and I loved it. It‘s a quick read. I downloaded the other one but haven‘t read it yet. Either is a good choice! 1w

kwmg40 Becoming a Matriarch is currently on my TBR list, so I‘ll vote for that one. 1w

JenlovesJT47 We read Becoming A Matriarch for #shesaid and everyone had a hard time finding a copy that wasn‘t super expensive. I do know a place where you can download them for free if you feel comfortable doing that. 1w

CarolynM I‘m behind with my #OhCanada reading, but I hope to join you for this one, whichever you choose 🙂 1w

JuniperWilde Let me know which one you chose. 1w

Jess861 @Ruthiella @PurpleyPumpkin @kwmg40 - thanks for your votes - noted 😊 4d

Jess861 @JenlovesJT47 - good to know - they are so easily available where I live in Canada. I didn't realize they were a bit harder to find in other countries. 4d

Jess861 @CarolynM - sounds good! 4d

Jess861 @JuniperWilde - Will do - I'll have another post with the book that is voted for. Going to give it a few more days in case people want to vote and weren't on during the week. 4d

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Jess861

The Forgotten Home Child | Genevieve Graham

For some reason I always seem to hit a reading slump in the Spring and it was no different this year. Going to put Bewilderment down for a bit (I'm sure I'll try reading it again at some point) and reread the tagged book for #OhCanada . First dragonfruit drink of the summer...even though it's another gloomy, chilly day.

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vivastory

Untitled | Unknown

I'm curious, Littens!
1) Most recent book(s) purchased
2) Last completed book from a library
Since I'm posting this, full transparency
1) A HPB book haul: Steinbeck's “Travels with Charley,“ Kosinski's “Being There,“ “DF Wallace Reader,“ “Virginia Woolf Box Set“ Harlan Ellison “Greatest Hits“
2) I Dnf a book (King's Killing Time), prior to that was the excellent “Before Watchmen: Nite Owl & Dr Manhattan “

monalyisha Hmm. Last NEW book purchased was Deep Cuts. Last library book completed was The Marmalade Diaries. Technically, my last book purchase was a haul, as well, though, from The Book Barn in Niantic, CT (which is one of my favorite places). Paperbacks are typically around $4. I bought a whole towering stack. 1mo

CarolynM Linden Rise by Richmal Crompton from a second hand bookshop in Albury at a stop on the road trip home from Sydney. Books are what I spend my money on, I rarely use libraries. The last book I borrowed from a library was Stepford Wives for a Litsy readalong a few years ago because I literally could not find a copy to buy. (edited) 1mo

TheKidUpstairs 1. I've been buying too many lately! Last purchase was yesterday: The Feast by Margaret Kennedy. 2. Last completed from the library was an audiobook: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore 1mo

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Deblovestoread 1) The Life of Herod The Great by Zora Neale Hurston. A #blameitonLitsy (specifically @TheBookHippie ) purchase. Most recent through Libby was

Midnight in Soap Lake: A Novel

1mo

shortsarahrose Just bought “Hyperbole and a Half” and “Solutions and Other Problems” by Allie Brosh yesterday. From the library, most recently finished “Tress of the Emerald Seas” by Brandon Sanderson 1mo

Ruthiella I just bought “A Forgotten Home Child” for #OhCanada and last completed library book was for #EBBR

Encyclopedia Brown gets his man

1mo

BiblioLitten 1. Purchased Tom Lake by Ann Patchett and 2. Last Completed from the library was Still Life by Louise Penny. Both are #blameitonlitsy reads. 1mo

Reggie 1. Eat the Ones You Love by Sara Maria Griffin and Overgrowth by Mira Grant. 2. I‘m in the middle of Say You‘ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez. I‘ll be done with it tomorrow. 1mo

dabbe 1. Last book purchased for me: The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad. Have I looked at it yet? Nope. But it's a pretty cover!
2. Last completed book by a library: THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT by Agatha Christie. I just finished it last night! 🤩
Thanks for the fun questions! 😍 1mo

IriDas 1) The book that held her heart by Makr Lawrence. 2) The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim (edited) 1mo

BarbaraJean 1. Last book purchase was a book haul: four books from the NYRB children‘s book sale (Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, The Little Bookroom, A Traveller in Time, and An Episode of Sparrows), which, like @Deblovestoread I can blame on @TheBookHippie 😆
2. Most recent library book is tagged—I read the audiobook through Libby

This Changes Everything: A Surprisingly Funny Story About Race, Cancer, Faith, and Other Things We Don't Talk About

1mo

Suet624 1. Life Became Very Blurry by Garrett Graff, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, Vermont by Charles T Morrissey (from 1981)
2. Demon Copperhead

You purchased some great books! 1mo

Liz_M 1) Indy bookstore day: https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2860087
2) A Different Hurricane - set on and author from St. Vincent, a small Caribbean island-nation 1mo

vivastory @monalyisha I keep seeing posts about Deep Cuts & as a music lover am def. intrigued. Paperbacks with decent fonts are my preferred reading format now. When I was at HPB the other day they had a great selection of mass market lit fic. 1mo

vivastory @CarolynM Outside of necessities, books are what I mostly spend money one too! What were your thoughts on the Levin? I read Rosemary's Baby a few months ago & loved it. 1mo

vivastory @TheKidUpstairs Solidarity on the purchase! Lol. Kennedy is def on my radar as like many others I have really appreciated the explosion of Irish authors. 1mo

vivastory @Deblovestoread Hurston is 100% on my list of authors to read by the end of the year. I recently bought a book of essays & am really looking forward to them 1mo

vivastory @shortsarahrose Love Allie Brosh! I have read only one of Sanderson's secret project books: The Sunlit Man (a good entry point for those new to Sanderson, I think) but I have heard interesting things about Tess 1mo

vivastory @Ruthiella Was not familiar with the #ohcanada selection but it sounds interesting! 1mo

monalyisha @vivastory Decent fonts are so important! Most mass market fonts are too small for me. Every copy of The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart that I‘ve ever gotten my hands on has been *so* hard to read. I keep hoping to find one that works! 1mo

vivastory @BiblioLitten I was at a family dinner a few months ago & my cousin's partner was trying to convince my aunt (also a reader) to read TL (which I haven't read), but I did chime in with my enthusiasm of Patchett as Dutch House is one of my favorites from the past few yrs. I also have the Penny on my TBR & am eager to get to it! 1mo

shortsarahrose Tress was my first Sanderson. It definitely made me want to read more! Adding The Sunlit Man to my TBR. 1mo

vivastory @Reggie Mira Grant is so great. Looking at her site I see that she recently published a book in the Aliens universe. Def intrigued. Did you ever read anything from her Parasitology series? I only read bk 1 but it's a series I always meant to continue. 1mo

vivastory @dabbe One of my favorite reads this yr so far was Christie's N or M? I used to read her somewhat regularly & it had been a couple of yrs since, nice to pick up one of her books again 1mo

vivastory @IriDas I have heard only great things about Lawrence's library trilogy. It's something I def want to check out 1mo

vivastory @BarbaraJean NYRB has so many great imprints 💙 1mo

vivastory @Suet624 Demon Copperhead is high on my list! Thanks, Sue! I def lucked out. I like to rotate between the HPB locations, never know what treasures I'll find 1mo

vivastory @Liz_M Red Pill is a favorite. Love that edition of the Woolf 1mo

vivastory @shortsarahrose I've heard others say that you need to have read several books of The Stormlight Archives, but I only read bk 1 of TSA & was able to follow along fine. There's def references to the Cosmere, but it works as a standalone story IMO 1mo

BiblioLitten @vivastory Dutch House was the reason I picked up TL. 😊 1mo

Branwen I need to hear more about this Virginia Woolf boxset! 👀 4w

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kwmg40

The Girls | Lori Lansens

pick

A fictional story about conjoined twins growing up in Ontario, Canada. Despite the strangeness of the premise, the author makes the girls' lives seem ordinary (but still interesting) and relatable.

#OhCanada @Jess861
#gottacatchemall (Whimsicott: pastel coloured cover) @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🩷🩷 1mo

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