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hopefully summer is finally here and we can enjoy some reading outside!! what are you reading???

Hi all... I just finished Only One Survives by Hannah Mary McKinnon. it was a quick read and if I could have curtailed my critical thinking mind, I probably would have liked it better... however, I am torn as I LOVED meeting the author who joined our book club chat by zoom. we had a lovely meeting with her. if you are looking for a quick thriller, this is the book for you!!

I seem to be in an odd reading space right now, reading many different titles but not really engaged or quickly finishing any of them.

Last week I finished reading both The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us and Waiting. Both are good reads; I enjoyed them.

I'm now reading Girl in Landscape.

Nice to "see" you Petra! these are all new books to me.

I just finished One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This which was not an easy read and makes me (and hopefully other readers) think about the apathy that the West has when atrocities are happening in Gaza. He shares his own struggles, bits of his life and ends with hope and courage.

Next, I am going to savour Elinor's book: Finding Flora

Update: I would challenge everyone to read Finding Flora, not only was it written by one of our members, Elinor BUT it is a great story AND I learned more about homesteading through strong women characters that were based on (or real) individuals that were a part of history. This is one of those books that just leads me to wanting to know more!!!

Yes! I loved Finding Flora by Elinor Florence ! I was set to put it in my “recommended for Canada Reads” square in my BINGO 2025. The story is still very fresh in my mind but I cannot use it because I read it as an ARC last year. I may just reread it :)

Hi all, I have not been very active on our group. I have really slowed down on my book reading but continue on fairly strong in the audio books. Right now I’m reading Funny Boy in paper book and a few at a time in audio: Jenny’s Boy, 101 Essays That Will Change the way you Think, and just finished Mary Claire Havers The New Menopause. I’m almost totally saturated in menopause knowledge but as more research comes out I want to stay current!

And Finding Flora, I can’t wait to read this one of Elinor’s!

I really should share more on Goodreads, I love to read and love everyone's posts about what you're reading. So, here it goes.

I read "The revised Fundamentals of Caregiving." by Jonathan Evison. I loved it. I'm really into the truth behind someone's honesty, what they're really saying. It's about a personal caregiver who gets a job helping a young man with sever health issues. Could not put the book down because of the effortless prose of the author.

Good Morning Midnight. Liked the movie. Loveeeeed the book by Lilly Brooks Dalton. This is a story about a man's inability to function in a relationship; so, he becomes an astronomer at the north poll. There's a cataclysmic event that puts the world at peril, and in the astronomer's over the top isolation, he begins to realize he needs to be in a relationship. Great read.

Kasher in the Rye. by Moshe Kasher. Being a recovering everything myself, reading a story about someone's exploits in addiction can be daunting for me, because I'm thinking, that's all that happened, you got trapped in a basement, filled with poisonous spiders, and a keg with no pump ? Light weight! Also, I found the author went for the joke more than the unabashed truth. Who does that sound like? Come on!!! I'm giving this two and half bongs out of five.

The Third Gilmore Girl. By Kelly Bishop. Nernie, my beautiful wife, got me to watch this series and I fell in love with the characters and the story lines. The mother, played by Kelly Bishop, is this uppity aristocrat in the series, but in her book, she anything but stuffy.
Again, I loved her journey from a down trodden child, to a chorus line dancer. Mrs. Bishop is a soup and nuts, blue collar ruffian, who absolutely worked her way to the top. Each and every chapter proves it. Great read.

Lastly. I'm reading another David Lynch autobiography. "David Lynch's American Dream Scape, by Mike Miley. I've read eight Lynch books, and as interesting as they are, they're also the literary equivalent of pushing a Buick out of a ditch. American Dreamscape is a foray into each and every project Lynch achieved. So. it's a deep dive into the mindset behind Lynch's choices, in his projects. And yah, I'm taking notes as I read, I do that with everything, but with Lynch, I feel like I'm being graded and I'm going to fail, yet another one of his hard to explain books.

There. Kind of caught up. Thank you for letting me leave my foot print.

I have read a couple of great Canadian books this summer-the first was Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci-- didnt know this book was part of a trilogy when I started reading this, but I do wish I had read Lives of Saints first, although this does ok as a stand alone.

The 2nd was a short story collection by Ivan E. Coyote which was excellent.

I'm currently reading Shuggie Bain in my quest to catch up on the Booker Winners

Heather(Gibby) wrote: "I have read a couple of great Canadian books this summer-the first was Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci-- didnt know this book was part of a trilogy when I started rea..."

Shuggie Bain was so good - enjoy.