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Greetings readers! December is upon us, although it will be a different holiday, I hope that regardless it will bring books and time to read.

I think we will celebrate Jólabókaflóð, or “Yule Book Flood,” this Christmas Eve as we won't be able to spend the evening with extended family and books and chocolate will be a consolation prize!! What about you all? any special book requests this year?

What. have you read? What are you reading? What is next?

Happy Friday!

I did a lot of reading this week. I finished Vesper Flights, which I liked but probably would have enjoyed more if I hadn't had this as a library book. It contained a lot of essays and it would have been better to be able to dip into this book over a longer period. I also finished Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. I learned things but I was uncomfortable at times with how much the author inserted herself into the narrative. It's worth reading, but I much preferred Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, which I read earlier this year.

I also finished Luster. I considered putting this one aside early on but I'm glad I stuck with it. I couldn't understand any of the choices the characters made in this novel, but I was also fascinated by them.

I also tore through Long Bright River, a character-driven crime novel. I finished this yesterday and have a book hangover now. It was great.

I have barely started Just Us: An American Conversation and will be starting a book to fill my final bingo square later today!

You have done a lot of reading @Susan!

I can't believe it, but I'm still reading Three Things About Elsie. I'm not sure if it's the book or me. It's basically a sleeping pill.

I'm also still listening to A Promised Land, but to be fair it's 29 hours long and I'm just about done.

@Susan, you read a tonne of books! I can barely get a few pages in each day. I wish I could get out of my reading funk. I must cut out screen time and focus on books instead. I'm still working through Mexican Gothic and I just barely got 35 pages into The Pull of the Stars.

@ Allison: 29 hours is a chunk of a book, any bigger than 16 hours is too long for me, good for you

@Susan G- love the idea of the Icelandic book tradition! Fabulous idea!

Happy Friday everyone! This week I finished Days by Moonlight for my local book club. It wasn't really my cup of tea, but hopefully it will spark some good conversation. My book club has gone virtual for the time being, which isn't really the same as being together...no laughter or delicious food.

Next up was The Wheaton which was an absolute gem. Set in a Saskatoon senior's home, it is a very touching story of a recent widower looking back on his marriage and family life with regret at his failings. It reminded me of "A Man Called Ove", which is one of my favorite books.

I am now reading Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography. This is a great graphic novel version of Riel's story, and is such a fun and easy way to learn about a complicated piece of Canadian history.

Happy Saturday!!

Reading is very slow this week, only finished The Woman in Cabin 10. I liked it better than In a Dark, Dark Wood. Currently reading A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald.

@Susan, that's a lot of reading this week, so jealous!
@Allison ༻hikes the bookwoods༺, did you see Oprah's interview with Obama on Apple TV?

I finished two books this week, a Scottish detective novel titled Broken Ground by Val McDermid, and The Summer Walkers: Travelling People and Pearl-Fishers in the Highlands of Scotland, a delightful account of the summer nomads (not gypsies, but ethnic Scots) who have been wandering around in the Highlands for hundreds of years, singing folk songs and telling stories.