July 15, 2023

Book Chat #9

36 minutes

Rebecca and Tara chat about their latest reads, including a few titles to celebrate Disability Pride Month, celebrated annually in July.

Also, Teach Media, an educational media company and publisher of graphic novels, reached out to Rebecca and is offering their followers a special 20% discount at their online bookstore for No Reason to Apologize with the code: CanLit20. The discount will be active through August 14, 2023. https://shop.teachmag.com/

Rebecca:

Wise Little One: Learning to Love and Listen to My Inner Child by Jana Wilson

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan E. Coyote

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

Mazebook by Jeff Lemire

No Reason to Apologize: The Resilient Legacy of Viola Desmond by W.L. Liberman, Andrea Scott, Tajliya Jamal (illustrator)

Tara:

A Real Somebody by Deryn Collier

The Centaur's Wife; Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E. Coyote

Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist by Holly Hogan

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

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