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Write Reads #49 The Hidden Keys by Andre Alexis
Join us for our discussion of Book 4 in Alexis’ planned Quincux. We had much to talk about in this podcast for Tania’s birthday pick. We hope that we covered the major bases. Let us know if you have any … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, CanLitNews, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged A Hundred Thousand Worlds, Andre Alexis, Bob Proehl, Book Club Podcast, Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20th Anniversary, Canadian literature, Canlit.ca, Emma Donoghue, Fifteen Dogs, Hugh Howey, Pastoral, Richard Wagamese, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Hidden keys, The Lotterys Plus One, Treasure Island, Wool
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Write Reads #27 How Poetry Saved My Life by Amber Dawn
For a couple of kids who aren’t that big on non-fiction we sure did seem to enjoy this memoir. Please listen and let us know what you thought about the book, and about our thoughts on it. Announcements (in keeping … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania
Tagged activisim, All My Puny Sorrows, Amber Dawn, Andre Alexis, China Mieville, Emma Donoghue, Fall From Grace, Fifteen Dogs, Frog Music, Holly Black, How Poetry Saved My Life, John Vaillant, memoir, Miriam Toews, non-fiction, Perdido Street Station, poetry, queer identity, Reading in Bed, sex workers, Sub Rosa, The Jaguar's Children, wayne arthurson, Welcome to Bordertown
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Write Reads #23 Half World by Hiromi Goto
Tania and Kirt wrap up the year with some taking stock, looking back, and fondly remembering. We also end 2015 with a fantastic, and fantastical, novel. Half World generated a lot of topics for us to cover. We talk about … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged Blind Spot, Butcher's Crossing, Canadian Fantasy Fiction, Canadian speculative fiction, Chorus of Mushrooms, Emma Donoghue, Frog Music, Giller winner, Half World, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Goto, Jacqueline Baker, Japanese fantasy, Japanese mythology, Jim Zub, John Williams, Laurence Miall, Martha Baillie, Nicole Lundrigan, Sean Dixon, Sean Michaels, Steve Cummings, The Broken Hours, The Girls Who Saw Everything, The Shape I Gave You, The Widow Tree, Us Conductors, Wayward, Young Adult
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Kirt’s June Pick
June is the month of my birth, so I get to choose which book we read for our July 7th podcast. One problem: Too many books! How does a Kirt choose just one of them?! Well, this Kirt has narrowed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Bradley, Alen Mattich, BC interior, Emma Donoghue, Frog Music, Harry Houdini, Kerry On Can Lit, Killing Pilgrim, Leacock Award Winner, Marko della Torre, Medicine Walk, Ojibway, Reading in Bed, Richard Wagamese, Steven Galloway, Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans, The Cellist of Sarajevo, The Confabulist, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Widow Tree, Yugoslavia, Zagreb Cowboy
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Write Reads #16 Frog Music by Emma Donoghue with Guest Host, Laura from Reading in Bed
We had a delightful time with our guest host, Laura from Reading In Bed. We hope that you’ll have a listen and be delighted with us. Frog Music generated a lot of discussion between the three of us. Feel free … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Alan Bradley, book club, Deadwood, Emma Donoghue, Fifth Business, Fisting, Frog Music, Lori Lansens 1493, Madame Bovary, podcast, Reading in Bed, Robertson Davies, San Francisco, The Fry Chronicles, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, The Girls, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, The Miracles of Ordinary Men, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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Write Reads #15 Blood: The Stuff of Life by Lawrence Hill
It sounds like we were out for blood in this one. However, Mr. Hill’s book comes away bloodied but not defeated. Okay. Enough blood references. Please feel free to weigh in with any counterarguments you may have to our points … Continue reading
Posted in Kirt, Podcast, Tania
Tagged 1491, A Fairy Tale, Bill Bryson, blood, Blood: The Stuff of Life, Charles C. Mann, Emma Donoghue, Frog Music, Gabrielle Zevin, geneology, Genome, heredity, Jim Harrison, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Katherine Rundell, Lawrence Hill, Massey Lecture Series, Matt Ridley, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, non-fiction, Pavement, Reading in Bed, Robin Sloan, Rooftoppers, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Terry Pratchett, The River Swimmer, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Toto
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