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November 22, 2024Tara's Holiday Picks! Tara shares her holiday reading list!
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 by Craig Davidson
- Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- The Street by Ann Petry
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- The Queen by Nick Cutter
- The Saturday Night Ghost Club; Rust and Bone: Stories by Craig Davidson
- The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
- The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy
- Author Hannah Mary McKinnon
- The Christmas Party by Karen Swan
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
- A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
- The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen
...more November 17, 2024Top Canadian Authors Continued Rebecca and Tara shared their Top Ten Canadian Books of the 21st Century on YouTube Live on August 24, 2024 but decided they wanted to share additional authors and titles that they highly recommend.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense; Driven: the Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers; Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers by Marcello Di Cintio
- The Lost Ones; In the Grip of It; It All Falls Down; No Going Back; Fight Like a Girl by Sheena Kamal
- The Red Chesterfield; Fall from Grace; A Killing Winter; Blood Red Summer; The Traitors of Camp 133 by Wayne Arthurson
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I Told Myself by Adelle Purdham
- The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
- The Doctor's Sweetheart and Other Stories by L.M. Montgomery
- Fayne; Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Fionavar Tapestry series; The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Spoon Stealer; Nosy Parker by Lesley Crewe
- Fallsy Downsies by Stephanie Domet
- Hollay Ghadery
- Helen Humphreys
...more October 26, 2024Book Chat #21 Rebecca is back from a two-week road trip and shares her stops along the way and only two books. Tara, on the other hand, had a great month of reading!
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Loudmouth Books: https://loudmouthindy.com/ / https://www.instagram.com/loudmouthindy/
- President Benjamin Harrison House: https://bhpsite.org/
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library: https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/
- Dana-Thomas House (Frank Lloyd Wright): https://dana-thomas.org/
- Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum: https://marktwainmuseum.org/
- Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum: https://www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org/
- Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum: https://ameliaearharthangarmuseum.org/
- Amelia & Me; Under Amelia’s Wing; Beyond Amelia by Heather Stemp
- Cahokia Mounds World Heritage & State Historic Site: https://cahokiamounds.org/
- Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library: https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/
- The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
- Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- Invisible Prisons by Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen
- We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
- I'm So Glad We Had This Time by Maurice Vellekoop
- Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo
- Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt with Susan Ouriou
- The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
- The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman
Don't forget to check out Rebecca and Tara's latest "Reading from Our Shelves" on YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/video/uAq2aptzpLc/edit
...more October 19, 2024Interview - Brett Popplewell and Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past Rebecca is excited to chat with author Brett Popplewell about his latest book, Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past.
Brett is an author and journalist who joined Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in 2017. His articles have been recognized by the National Magazine Awards Foundation in best short feature, profiles, investigative reporting, longform writing, sports and travel.
He has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Sportsnet, Maclean’s, The Walrus and more. He is the co-author of The Escapist: How One Man Cheated Death on the World’s Highest Mountains. Published in 2016).
https://brettpopplewell.ca/
https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443457859/outsider/
https://thewalrus.ca/churchill-portrait/
...more October 09, 2024Interview - Sydney Leigh and Instagoner Tara chats with author Sydney Leigh about her latest novel, Instagoner, published on August 27, 2024 by Level Best Books; it is the first book in the Bark and Blog Mystery series. When lifestyle blogger Emily finds the body of the local controversial talk show host who also happens to be her arch-nemesis, she enlists the help of her online audience, her best friend and barista Fitz, and furry, four-footed roommate Murray who help solve the crime.Sydney spent several years running a seasonal business, allowing her to spend the cold months in cool places. She now spends her work time thinking about murder and writing cozy mysteries. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers and served on the board of Crime Writers of Canada from 2018-2021.Highlighted books:- The True Love Experiment; The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
- Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
- Murder Road by Simone St. James
- Peril in Pink by Sydney Leigh
https://sydneyleighbooks.com/https://www.instagram.com/sydneyleighauthor/...more October 02, 2024Interview - Sarah Raughley and The Bones of Ruin Trilogy Tara interviews author Sarah Raughley about her trilogy, The Bones of Ruin (The Bones of Ruin, The Song of Wrath, The Lady of Rapture), as well as her new novel, The Queen's Spade, out January 14, 2025.Sarah grew up in southern Ontario writing stories about freakish little girls with powers because she secretly wanted to be one. She is a huge fangirl of anything from manga to sci/fi fantasy TV to Japanese role-playing games.As a writer, Sarah has been nominated for the Aurora Award for Best Young Adult novel and works in the community doing writing workshops for youths and adults.As an academic, Sarah has a PhD in English. She has taught at McMaster University and acted as a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Ottawa. She currently teaches creative writing at Lakehead University. Her research concerns representations of race and gender in popular media, youth culture and post colonialism.Highlighted titles:- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
- July's People by Nadine Gordimer
- Legendborn; Bloodmarked; Oathbound (3/2025) by Tracy Deonn
- Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
- Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
- Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama
- Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi
- Basara by Yumi Tamura
- Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
- Sugar Sugar Rune by Moyoco Anno
- The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda
- Fushigi Yugi by Yuu Watase
- Bleach by Tite Kubo
https://sarahraughley.com/
https://www.instagram.com/s_raughley/
...more September 29, 2024Book Chat #20 Rebecca and Tara close out September with what they are currently reading and what they've read since their last book chat.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of The Kingdom of Redonda by Michael Hingston
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- Little Moons by Jen Storm
- Not Cancelled: Canadian Caremongering in the Face of Covid-19; Life After Loss: Reflections on Moments of Grace and Courage in Grief by Catherine Kenwell
- Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
- Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell
- The Circle by Katherena Vermette
- Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin
- The Circle; Real Ones by Katherena Vermette
- Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
- Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- The Brickworks by Lucy E.M. Black
- Pay the Piper by George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus
- The River; Burn by Peter Heller
...more September 13, 2024Eden Mills Writers' Festival Wrap-Up Rebecca and Tara chat about their great day at the annual Eden Mills Writers' Festival in Eden Mills, Ontario. Check out the link below for the entire day's lineup of authors and titles discussed on the podcast.
https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/featured-writers/
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- Instagoner (A Bark and Blog Mystery Series) by Sydney Leigh
- God Isn't Here Today by Francine Cunningham
- Tear by Erica McKeen
...more September 06, 2024Interview - Hollay Ghadery and Widow Fantasies Tara talks with Hollay Ghadery, an award-winning Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishanaabe land. Fuse, her acclaimed memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions' Microland imprint in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for nonfiction/memoir. (Check out Rebecca's interview with Hollay on the January 11, 2023 episode.) Her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, was released with Radiant Press in April 2023. Her short fiction collection, Widow Fantasies, will be released on September 1, 2024, with Gordon Hill Press.Hollay is also the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township as well as the founder of and senior publicist with River Street Writing, a team of creatives who aim to produce and celebrate amazing writers.Books, authors highlighted:- Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook by David Galef
- Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang by Ava Farmehri
- Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
- Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
- Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
- The Boulevard by Jerrod Edson
- Poet Bronwen Wallace
- Most of All the Wanting by Amanda Merpaw
- Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clarke
- A Simple Carpenter by David Margoshes
- Author Adele Wiseman
- Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel by Pamela Mulloy
- The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan
- The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (The Book of Cross #1) by Peter Roman
Publishers:
- Radiant Press https://radiantpress.ca/
- Latitude 46 https://latitude46publishing.com/
- Wolsak & Winn https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/
Literary Festivals:
- The Word on the Street Toronto https://toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/
- Eden Mills Writers' Festival https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/
- The & Festival https://theampersandreview.ca/the-festival-2024
- Wordstock Sudbury https://wordstocksudbury.ca/
...more August 22, 2024Book Chat #19 Rebecca and Tara share their latest good reads!
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
- Golden Boys: The Winnipeg Falcons of 1920 by Paul Keery; illustrated by Michael Wyatt https://shop.teachmag.com/collections/frontpage/products/golden-boys-the-winnipeg-falcons-of-1920
- Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
- The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic by Adam Shoalts
- Real Ones: A Novel by Katherena Vermette
- The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
- Merlin Bird ID: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
- The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
- Road Ends by Mary Lawson
- The Puppet Master (Major Crimes #3) by Sam Holland
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
...more
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How many episodes does Canada Reads American Style have?
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