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Greetings readers!! It looks like we are getting another beautiful weekend here (southern Ontario) and hopefully across the country.

Where do you like to read in the summer? Kobo or real book outside?

What have you finished, started and are looking forward to reading?

Have a wonderful day!!

It is an extremely hot day here in Winnipeg!

I just finished (it is a quick half day read) Midnight Sweatlodge by Waubgeshig Rice. This was such a powerful book, a lot packed into 96 pages.

Just started on audio, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, so far a very fun read.

Happy Friday!

This week I finished Silence Is a Sense, an interesting novel about a traumatized Syrian refugee who has resettled in post-Brexit vote England.

Then I read Unsettled Ground, a sad but beautiful novel about 51-year-old twins dealing with the loss of their mother. They have been quite isolated and live in a rural environment and have difficulty coping with the day to day. I really enjoyed this one - it's my favourite of the five Women's Prize nominees I've read.

For bingo, I'm currently reading Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World. I've also just barely started The Survivors.

I am reading The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop. I have no idea who recommended this to me now, but I had requested it at my library and I think it is going to turn out to be a 4 or 5 star read for me. It is set in Louisiana in the 40’s and a young black man is to be electrocuted....an alleged rape of a white girl is his crime but there are some members of the community who don’t believe this was the case...

I am listening to Good Talk:A Memoir in Conversations and am really enjoying it-lots of laughs-but serious subject matter that is giving me much to think about.

I just finished Five Wives by Joan Thomas and recommend it-checked all my boxes-Canadian, historic fiction based on fact-you can actually look up the actual Life Magazine article that has a big part in this story.

Next up is Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson.

I finished one murder mystery this week:

Dead Shot - set in New Zealand in the 1880s. This was a very interesting story blending New Zealand history & culture with aboriginal issues, some prejudices and the murder mystery. Well written and with a feel of The Old West western but somehow more civilized (less "shoot 'em up")

Next up, I'm about to start Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (thank you, Secret Sender!). I've been wanting to read this one for some time now and, thanks to my Secret Sender, I recently obtained a copy and am excited to start.

Happy Hot Friday from Manitoba! Wowzer, it is summeresque here. I think a good real book on a hammock is my summer reading Heaven or on a dock beside the Lake. Both are my peace.
I finished A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. Was such a great read with so many women characters from Greek and Trojan mythology. Loved it and learned a lot as I researched along the way. Now I'm deeply involved and equally disturbed by The Push by Ashley Audrain. Yikes this book is something else. I can't stop reading but the story knocks out the breath, hard. I don't think I will be able to erase this book from my mind for a long time. I was definitely warned but had no idea what I was getting into. We had a great Zoom chat for our May group book read: Five Wives, can't wait to do this again!

I just finished The Guest List last night, and am currently reading
Anne of the Island
The White Mirror
N is for Noose

Happy Weekend!

I finished The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo last week. Currently reading Summer of '69 and listening to The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism.

Good morning!

It was a slow week of reading for me but I did finish Imagine It!: A Handbook for a Happier Planet which was really more of a review of what we can do to care for our environment. It has made me really think about my purchasing power and reinforced my appreciation for buying local. I also finished Sheet Pan Everything: Deliciously Simple One-Pan Recipes which really suits my lazy way of cooking healthy things quickly!

I have gotten away from How to Win Friends and Influence People as I am really enjoying The Overstory which is a dense read. it started of as chapters about individuals and families, all impacted in some way by trees. I wondered if they would all come together and then the stories "branched out" and came together. I am about 2/3 of the way and savouring this one a bit at a time.

my library hold of The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany became available yesterday so I will read it a bit at a time as well.

@Heather(Gibby) - Tilly and the Crazy 8s is a fun read... I think it just has an unfortunate title... if it were not for the Canada Reads long-list, I may not have know about or picked up this book!

@Susan - some heavy topics. I look forward to hearing more about Solitude.

@Wanda - it was so nice to connect virtually!!