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Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree
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Absolutely adorable! #cozyfantasy

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Lovelight Farms | B. K. Borison
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Perfect Saturday in December vibes

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The best kind of impulse buy!

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The Glass Hotel | Emily St. John Mandel
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I loved the themes of choice and opportunity, memory, guilt and accountability. How do our choices impact others, and what is the cost to ourselves?

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The Glass Hotel | Emily St. John Mandel
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Picking up an older one from my tbr.

#tbr

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Cult Classic | Stephen Blackmoore
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She has no opinion on the book but I really like the direction this series is going in. Definitely glad I kept on with the series.

#summerreading #urbanfantasy

dabbe Da sweetest pup! 🖤🐾🖤 9mo
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Starting to be a real Scalzi fan.

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We‘ll I‘m excited to start this but apparently my dog isn‘t as enthused 😂

dabbe Looks like da sleepy pup stole your chair! 🖤🐾🖤 9mo
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This book was an absolute blast! Totally recommend it.

dabbe Big doggy stretch! 🖤🐾🖤 9mo
lisakoby @dabbe 😊 9mo
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Happiness is growth in peace

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Fire Season | Stephen Blackmoore
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Series can lag in the fourth book, but this book was better than the last. Looking forward to the next one.

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1. Peach iced tea or a gin and tonic

2. Outside if the Canadian weather cooperates 😊😂

#Two4Tuesday

And anyone can play 😊

TheSpineView Thanks for playing 🧡🍑🫖 9mo
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Broken Souls | Stephen Blackmoore
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Interesting world building with an Aztec twist.

#urbanfantasy

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Dead Things | Stephen Blackmoore
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A fun read with a compelling hero. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

#summerhorror #urbanfantasy

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Excellent and should be required reading for every Canadian.

#canada

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Vacation reading 😊

Pedrocamacho Love this one 😊 9mo
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Alpha Unbound | Eve Langlais
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The werewolves are more believable than the heroine. So sunshiny that a roofieing and attempted gang rape isn‘t enough to dim her shine, but it let him be a hero and show what a great guy he is so 🤷🏻‍♀️.

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Alpha Unbound | Eve Langlais
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Okay classy fiction or mystery for my vacation reading or this? #coverart #this

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Death on Gokumon Island | Seishi Yokomizo
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Counting the minutes until I start my vacation. Can‘t wait to start this mystery. It‘s using the same premise as And Then There Were None.

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A Restless Truth | Freya Marske
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Yeah I‘m not so sure how Victorian style porn comes across on audiobook and the cat and mouse tension of the first book is not coming across in this one. 😐

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Can‘t wait for my workday to be done!

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A Restless Truth | Freya Marske
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Been a long while since I posted. Glad to be back. 🌸

Suet624 I'm glad you came back!! 10mo
Kitta Welcome back! I returned after many years recently 9mo
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Thought provoking and, oddly, calming me by calling to our shared non-consumable humanity.

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Julius Winsome | Gerard Donovan
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Gripping. If you like John Wick then this is a winner.

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Julius Winsome | Gerard Donovan
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Great start for a lazy summer evening.

#summerread #soccermomreads

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Storm of Locusts | Rebecca Roanhorse
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Second in the series and better than the first. Loved every minute of it!

#scifi #allthebookspodcast

LeeRHarry Desperate to read this one! 5y
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Rivers of London - Black Mould #1 | Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel
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So excited to start this series! She‘s my fav from the books. 😊

#comicbook #geeklove #magicalrealism #urbanfantasy

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Mehso-so

Interesting and reasonably written, with an protagonist that isn‘t so much whiny but as chronically indecisive, and rather annoyingly expecting certainty from everyone else.

#scifi

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New audiobook...the main complaint seems to be that the protagonist is whiny but that isn‘t coming across as strongly in the audio version.

#audiobook #booklove #scifi

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Sometimes a book hits you at the right moment. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#essays #memoir #nonfiction

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Chelseabillups30 She is my favorite author!! 💜💜💜 5y
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Out of Old Ontario Kitchens | Lindy Mechefske
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I love nerding out on culinary history.

#cookbook #culinaryhistory #history #nonfiction

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river woman | Katherena Vermette
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Excellent. Moving and beautiful.

#poetry #canadareads #candianpoetry

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Mehso-so

Not really for the home cook...

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I loved this book. Warm, loving and honest. She‘s privileged no doubt but extends it in warm spiritual hospitality. I felt like I was sitting at that table with her.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#nonfiction #cookbook #essays #spirituality #recommendedreading

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Ghost Wall | Sarah Moss
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Beautiful and heart stoppingly good.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#recommendedread #shortread

charl08 Wow. Love the illustration in your copy! 5y
TrishB It was 👍🏻 5y
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French Exit: A Novel | Patrick DeWitt
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Mehso-so

First half is very good but it lost steam about 2/3 of the way through. Meh.

#novel #canlit

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RealLifeReading Oh that‘s disappointing! 5y
cathysaid Dang! I was eyeing this since it‘s on the #ToB2019 list. I‘ll try it from the library to be safe 😬 5y
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In the Night Wood | Dale Bailey
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Fantasy and tragedy mix with a sense of place so strong it‘s another character. Have to say I didn‘t love the very flawed protagonist but then you‘re not supposed to.

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

#fantasy #paperbook #librarylove

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In the Night Wood | Dale Bailey
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New start this weekend. Returning to paper after a stream of audiobooks. Feels good.

#fantasy #booklove

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The best book I‘ve read in years, unflinching and gut wrenching. It covers sexual abuse, hope, the terror of love walking in the world, the violence that we transfer to those we love the most and sheer agony of surviving and trying to thrive in a white world that is bent on your destruction. You can pick a word or theme and follow that thread, reread and do it again and again.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#audiobooklove #memoir #mustread #readharder2019

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Vengeful | V. E. Schwab
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3 minutes in. This starts strong!

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Finished! Excellent narration as always, and pure Three Pines escapism.

#audiobooklove #mystery

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My red cabbage, apple and ginger sauerkraut recipe, loosely based on the Food In Jars website which is my usual go to. I‘m really excited for this Noma book and some new recipes!

#cookbook #obsessed #foodnerd

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⭐️⭐️⭐️

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I thought dreamed up this book. But it‘s real and has stuck with me for 25ish years. I really liked the combo of feminist commentary and chronicle of the tween books from the 80‘s and I can‘t believe how many of them I read 😂. The angst, the agony!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#nonfiction #ya #feministread

8little_paws This looks interesting, and it's a humor book? Maybe I read it for #readharder humor book in 2019! 5y
EKonrad Loved this read! 😊 5y
lisakoby @8little_paws It‘s funny but more non fiction - could be a cross category read... 5y
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Six Wakes | Mur Lafferty
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An interesting murder mystery set space with underlying themes of revenge, humanity and the value of a human life.

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

#scifi #audiobook

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I liked the structure - small essays in each language. This book is funny, interesting and informative and I liked dipping in and out instead of reading each essay one after the other.

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#nonfiction #languagenerd

LeeRHarry This looks right up my alley! 5y
lisakoby @LeeRHarry I really liked it. The end of each essay has a word that doesn‘t exist in English but should. 😊 5y
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I love this series. My absolute favourite of the year. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Agreed! 📚😍 5y
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Great short story collection. Can‘t help but love the sociopath protagonist. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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An interesting and unique book...a lesbian protagonist with Down‘s syndrome who sees ghosts set in an alternative U.S.A struggles past surviving and into freedom and hope. Though it has a lot packed in, it‘s vivid and compelling with and old west feel. I‘ll be thinking about this one for a while.
⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

#dystopian #fiction #librarylove #podcastreads