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Write Reads #42 The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux
Has everybody done their reading for this podcast? We hope so because spoilers abound in this episode and this is the type of novel that will be seriously ruined by spoilers (or even reading the back of the book, as … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, CanLitNews, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged 49th Shelf, Alice I Think, Biblioasis, book club, Book Club Podcast, Cakes and ale, Can-Lit, Canadian literature, Catherine Leroux, CNQ, Dan Simmons, Duke, Hag-Seed, Haruki Murakami, Hogarth Shakespeare, Ikea, Jeanette Winterson, Kafka on the Shore, margaret atwood, Nice Recovery, P.G. Wodehouse, podcast, Republic of Dirt, Sara Tilley, Stranger Things, Susan Juby, the fall of hyperion, The Gap of Time, The Party Wall, The Wandering Bibliophile, W. Somerset Maugham, Woefield Poultry Collective
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Write Reads #41 The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
This is an unprecedented podcast with Tania and Kirt recording in two different locations. If you want to find out Tania’s secret location you will have to listen to the podcast. That’s just the way it is. Our lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged book club, Book Club Podcast, Buffy the Vampier Slayer Adult Coloring Book, Can-Lit, Canadian literature, CBC, Consumed By Ink, Dan Simmons, Duke, Frances Burney, Karen Unland, Native History Month, podcast, Reading in Bed, Ricky Gervais, Sara Tilley, Seen and Heard in Edmonton, The Back of the Turtle, The Candy Palmater Show, The Wandering Bibliophile, Thomas King
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Write Reads #40 The Horseman’s Graves by Jacqueline Baker
Our 40th podcast and our May Mystery pick gone and got done (finally)! Tania opens a dialogue about how this book qualifies for our mystery month and Kirt offends fundamentalist Christians and Germans. It’s really a great podcast and a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, CanLitNews, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged A Hundred Thousand Worlds, Alias Grace, Biblioasis, Bob Proehl, book club, Book Club Podcast, Can-Lit, Canadian literature, Catherine Leroux, Consumed By Ink, Dan Simmons, Drawn to Write, Duke, Happy Harbor Comics, Hard Witching, J. Torres, Jacqueline Baker, Lynne Anne Blom, margaret atwood, Ms. Marvel, Party Wall, podcast, Quill and Quire, Sara Tilley, sarah polley, The Broken Hours, the fall of hyperion, The Horseman's Graves, The Mighty Zodiac, The Moment of Movement, The Wandering Bibliophile, Youth Write
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Write Reads #39 Birdie by Tracey Lindberg with Laura from Reading In Bed
We’re actually on time with the podcast for a change. The fates conspired to allow us to get together with Laura from Reading In Bed for her third stint as guest host. Things went as swimmingly as they always do … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged Alberta Readers' Choice Award, Beachcombers, Birdie, book club, Book Club Podcast, Can-Lit, Canada Reads 2016, Canadian literature, Charlotte Bronte, Dan Simmons, even this page is white, Fall of Hyperion, Frugal Gourmet, how to be a domestic goddess, Hyperion, interference, Joseph Boyden, Josh Radnor, Laura Frey, Margaret Laurence, Michael Chabon, michelle berry, Nigella Lawson, Outline, podcast, Rachel Cusk, Reading in Bed, Son of France, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the diviners, The Orenda, Todd Babiak, Tracey Lindberg, Urban Peasant, Villette, vivek shraya
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Guarding the Fortress
I have recently read two novels that explore a post-literate future: Olympos by Dan Simmons and Red Rising by Pierce Brown. Both scenarios present horrific and disastrous consequences for these post-literate humans. You could say that it is kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Kirt, Opinions
Tagged Dan Simmons, Goodreads, Olympos, Pierce Brown, post-literate future, Red Rising, snobbery, taste
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The Research Rabbit Hole and Its Dangers
In several of our podcasts Tania and I have discussed the problem of information overload in some of the books we’ve read. I think that it’s a topic that deserves a post of its own as it has been weighing … Continue reading
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