Rebecca and Larissa discuss The Break by Katherena Vermette and both have the same question: why are Rain, Lou, and Flora the only characters in first person?  As a natural segue, Larissa talks about the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada and recommends the following websites:

http://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Shauna and Rebecca are excited to chat with another guest reviewer, Sarah from Nova Scotia!  Topics include CBC's Canada Reads 2020 contenders: Son of a Trickster, We Have Always Been Here, and first impressions of Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club.  Besides being an avid reader, Sarah has her own YouTube Channel--Sarah Stitches.

Rebecca also mentions she researched past CBC's Canada Reads themes:

2012 True stories

2013 Turf wars

2014 A novel to change our nation

2015 One book to break barriers

2016 Starting over

2017 The book Canadians need now

2018 One book to open your eyes

2019 One book to move you

2020 One book to bring Canada into focus

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Despite the postponement of the CBC's Canada Reads 2020 competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Shauna and Rebecca offer their fifth and final review of the short listed titles.

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Join Shauna and Rebecca in their discussion of book #4 of CBC's Canada Reads 2020 competition, Son of a Trickster.  Someone loves it and someone has a really shallow reason why she struggled at the beginning of the book.  

They also mention Megan Gail Coles' accent, which you'll hear in this wonderful CBC Books interview with the five 2020 authors! 

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/the-canada-reads-authors-answer-5-big-questions-1.5491222

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Shauna and Rebecca are excited to chat with Larissa, a Canadian, about her views on the five CBC's Canada Reads 2020 contenders. :) Will they all agree on the number of maple leafs???  Make sure to follow Larissa on Instagram @the.bookmom and Shauna and Rebecca @canadareadsamerican style.

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Shauna and Rebecca interview the heart and soul and humor of CBC's Canada Reads over the last four years, Ali Hassan. If you would like to know which book Ali would defend, tune in (Rebecca was fangirling)! 

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Shauna and Rebecca agree on their book #3 of the CBC's Canada Reads 2020 shortlist.  Do they love it?  Do they hate it?  Or are they somewhere in the middle?  Stay tuned for a passionate discussion about Samra Habib's "Queer Muslim Memoir".

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Shauna and Rebecca review CBC's Canada Reads 2020 book #2.  And if you've listened to their interview with Jesse Thistle and George Canyon, there are no surprises how many maple leafs they hand out.  Their review does contain spoilers, so proceed with caution!

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Shauna and Rebecca score an amazing double interview!  First up is Jesse Thistle, author of From the Ashes, a CBC's Canada Reads 2020 contender, followed by the defender of the book, George Canyon.  Jesse talks about his words and his soulmate, while George discusses why From the Ashes is a book that all of Canada should read. AND Rebecca tells us, not once, but twice how she has chosen this book as the CBC's Canada Reads 2020 winner. ;P

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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Shauna and Rebecca shift their focus from CBC's Canada Reads authors to defenders and chat with Akil Augustine (14:50) who is defending Radicalized by Cory Doctorow!  But first, they discuss how they would prepare for the competition.   

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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