Canada Reads Inspired

Rebecca and Tara discuss CBC's 2024 Canada Reads DAY TWO!

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

https://www.johnkingbooksdetroit.com/

Rebecca and Tara will be doing a live YouTube Wrap Up on DAY FOUR (3/7/24) with Jolene at 2:00 pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/@canadareadsamericanstyle/streams

Connect with Jolene on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@BookwormAdventureGirl

Rebecca and Tara discuss CBC's 2024 Canada Reads DAY ONE!

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

Rebecca and Tara will be doing a live YouTube Wrap Up on DAY FOUR (3/7/24) with Jolene at 2:00 pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/@canadareadsamericanstyle/streams

Connect with Jolene on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@BookwormAdventureGirl

Rebecca and Tara ask the question: Why are we able to talk about a book for 30 minutes that we didn't like and yet struggle to articulate clearly what we loved about a five-star read?

Books discussed:

• The Meaning of Leaving by Kate Rogers

Rebecca and Tara share what they are currently reading and their latest reading recommendations!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• The Song of Achilles; Circe by Madeline Miller

Rebecca chats with award-winning author Garnett Kilberg Cohen, the author of four short story collections: Cravings (October 2023); Lost Women, Banished Souls; How We Move the Air; and Swarm to Glory.  Her chapbook, Passion Tour, was published by Finishing Line Press.

Garnett's writing has appeared in The New Yorker online, Rumpus, The Gettysburg Review, Witness, The Literary Review, StoryQuarterly, The Antioch Review and elsewhere.

https://garnettcohenauthor.com/

Short Stories and Author Recommendations: 

• Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro

Rebecca and Tara celebrate Black History Month with their picks and TBR!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): 

• Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey

Tara (@onabranchreads)

• Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

Tara interviews Gina Leola Woolsey, author of Fifteen Thousand Pieces: A Medical Examiner's Journey Through Disaster, a nonfiction account of Dr. John Butt who was Chief Medical Examiner at the time of the Swissair plane crash off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998. 

Gina left her corporate career mid-life to pursue an education in creative writing, earning a BFA from the University of British Columbia and a MFA from the University of King's College.  She splits her time between small-town Alberta, downtown Montreal, and her hometown of Vancouver.  Gina won the 2010-2011 CBC Nonfiction Prize for My Best Friend, a decades-panning tale that offers a glimpse into her relationship with her troubled brother, from the innocence of their difficult childhood to his adult addictions.   

Website: https://www.ginaleolawoolsey.com/

Instagram: @ginaleola

Gina's Recommended Reading List & Current Reads:

• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Rebecca and Tara chat about what they are reading and what they've recently read! 

(Side note: Rebecca said "palatable" but meant "palpable".  Ha!)

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys

Rebecca and Tara are thrilled to discuss the CBC's Canada Reads Short List!

• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Rebecca: @canadareadsamericanstyle

Tara: @onabranchreads

Happy New Year!  Rebecca and Tara review their 2023 reading goals and set new challenges for 2024!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• Finding Edward by Sheila Murray

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• The Frozen Thames; And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life; Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother by Helen Humphreys